The first chapter answers the question: how do firms assess their institutional environments? Beyond domestic cues, we examine the role of international institutions. In the global investment treaty regime, some firms ...

In this dissertation, I examine between-people variations in their engagement in networking behaviors. In particular, I investigate the emotions, cognition, motivations and network properties associated with those networking ...

Since the 1990s, entrepreneurship has been promoted as a solution for the issues faced by developing countries. However, the outcome of the global push for entrepreneurship as a way toward socio-economic development depends ...

This dissertation explores how organizations cope with multiple and heterogeneous institutions, a situation recently referred to as institutional complexity . It is based on the study of French Business Schools, known as ...

Attention is a scarce resource. This study investigates the problem of the limited consumer's attention span and its impact on Internet advertising markets. For this, I explore Korean search engine market and present a ...

Knowing a constant evolution to answer every day’s needs, the cosmetic sector needs to know how to constantly renew itself and anticipate the client’s needs in order to dis- tinguish itself from the competition. This ...

The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an analysis of how the fleet replacement problem can be addressed from both sustainability and risk management perspectives, simultaneously. The contribution of this thesis has two ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to deepen the study of social entrepreneurship by examining how social entrepreneurs use partnerships and organize themselves to transfer knowledge. My research takes a first step towards ...

This dissertation is a multi-perspective inquiry into the phenomenon of grassroots end-user innovation. It focuses on the processes of end-user innovation and technology co-creation and investigates how these developments ...