Customer Perceptions of Firm Innovativeness and Market Performance: A Nation-Level, Longitudinal, Cross-Industry Examina...
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OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to analyze worldwide sales of new therapeutic agents and to estimate the time it takes for product sales to exceed industry-wide average drug development costs. METHODS: Data obtained from company reports were analyzed to track worldwide sales of new medicines approved by the US Food and Drug Administration from 1995 to...
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Dividend policy is not set de novo each year, but dividends are smoothed from one year to the next, leading to a short-term persistent component. In this paper, we investigate whether there is also long-run persistence in dividend policy, by using a unique sample of firms listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1824. We show that dividend smoot...
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The term “interlocking directorates” emerged in the study of monopole formation in the world of business in the United States and Europe from the late nineteenth century onwards. Directorates are here considered as networks or parts of networks that embody financial and organisational ties between large corporations which also became interlocked wi...