The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). A[...]

This dissertation investigates the effects of innovation in the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) on survival chances of standalone non-patenting firms. Extensive[...]

Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. R[...]

This dissertation contains three connected essays that feature financial market innovation and product market innovation. Two essays feature return predictability in comm[...]

ABSTRACTDYNAMIC CAPABILITIES OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AND THE INNOVATION PERFORMANCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Under the direction of DR. KELLERMANNS This research pape[...]