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The Nature of the Firm

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The cis-lunar ecosystem — A systems model and scenarios of the resource industry and its impact

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Lunar resources is one of the many new putative business models that may transform space logistics. Yet it competes with Earth-based resources, in a complex trade-off involving both tech development & socioeconomic dynamics. This study models the size vs. ...

2021

Essays in Financial Economics

Kornelia Fabisik

This thesis consists of three parts that study separate subjects in corporate finance and corporate governance. The overarching theme is ownership by CEOs and other insiders. In the first part, which is co-authored work with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, René M. ...

EPFL2020

Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Jiayun Shen

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

The Advent of the Sharing Culture and its Effect on Product Pricing

Thomas Alois Weber, Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Empirical observations suggest that consumers' propensity towards sharing varies with culture and the individuals' socio-demographic characteristics. In an economy with overlapping generations of heterogeneous consumers, we study optimal dynamic selling by ...

2019

Competitive Pressure on the Rate and Scope of Innovation

Kenneth Younge

While executives play an important role in leading firm innovation, they may economize on efforts to innovate when protected from takeover threat. Middle managers may curtail the rate and scope of innovation when executives are expected to reduce their inn ...

2018

IP Strategy and Use Of IP Protection Mechanisms Across Firm Size: An empirical investigation

Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

In this paper we use data from the 2012 Innovation Strategy Survey (485 responses) to compare motives and choices with respect to IP strategy in firms with sizes ranging from micro to very large. Our results confirm significant differences across firm size ...

2016

Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon that has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. However, current research on coopetition is still short on explaining how the pot ...

2014

Corporate Science and Voluntary Disclosure : Analyzing Determinants and Firm Performance

Markus Simeth

The dissertation investigates the phenomenon of firms that make voluntary contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge. Such a firm behaviour appears counterintuitive from a traditional viewpoint, since no direct financial returns can be expected whi ...

EPFL2013

Protecting growth options in dynamic markets: The role of strategic disclosure in integrated intellectual property strategies

Christopher Tucci, Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

Given recent developments in information technology and intellectual property (IP) legislation, technology firms may benefit from an integrated IP strategy that combines patenting with strategic disclosure. This article presents a series of cases that intr ...

Univ Calif2013

Operational Decisions and Supply Chain Dynamics : An Empirical Investigation

Olov Isaksson

While traditional research in operations management has focused on mathematical models for improving the flow of physical goods and information, this dissertation takes a quantitative empirical approach. With three distinct research projects it revisits ce ...

EPFL2013

From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The resource-based view suggests that firms' heterogeneous resource endowments are important for explaining interfirm performance differences. To date, however, the literature provides little insight on the factors that shape the identification of markets ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

Towards Integrated Land Use and Transportation: A Dynamic Disequilibrium based Microsimulation Framework for Built Space Markets

Bilal Farooq

Investigating the factors and processes that influence the spatiotemporal distribution of built space and population in an urban area, plays an extremely important role in our greater understanding of the urban travel behaviour. Existing location of activi ...

2012

Essays in Financial Economics

In the first chapter of this thesis, I empirically show that the time delay firms face in raising outside capital affects cash holdings. I exploit the 2005 US Securities Offering Reform (the Reform) as a quasi-natural experiment. For a subset of large publ ...

EPFL2012

Coopetition In The Global Book Industry: The Case Of Amazon.Com’s Evolution

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon which has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. The current research on coopetition is still short in explaining how the potenti ...

2011

Innovative timber constructions

Yves Weinand

The research undertaken in the EPFL’s Timber Construction Laboratory aims both to question in depth the relationship between engineering sciences and architectural conception and to expose new facets of this relationship. The IBOIS is firmly integrated in ...

2009

Look Before You Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

Entrepreneurs play a fundamental role in bringing new technologies to market. Because technologies are often configurable to serve a variety of different markets, it is possible for entrepreneurs to identify multiple market opportunities prior to the first ...

2008

e-Innovation and financial services

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...

EPFL2008

Northern and southern innovativity: a comparison across European and Latin American countries

Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

This paper compares the role of innovation and economic performance across European and Latin American countries, using firm-level data from France, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We implement a standard structural model linking R&D inte ...

2008