Peter W. Roberts

Peter W. Roberts
Emory University | EU · Goizueta Business School

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We examine changes in the effectiveness of local civic action in relation to changes over time in racial diversity and income inequality. Local civic action comprises situations in which community members come together—typically with support from local organizations—to address common issues. The collective orientation of local civic action makes it...
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With the rise in the number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), commentators are asking whether the sector benefits by MFIs having stronger profit orientations. We address this question by analyzing the relationship between interest rates and adopting the for-profit legal form, appointing private sector representation and traditional ba...
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Because wines are aged for several years before they are released, newly hired winemakers arrive as wines made by their predecessors enter the market. An analysis of winemaker hiring events reveals that wines released right after a new winemaker's arrival from a prominent competitor are priced significantly higher than corresponding wines released...
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Articles in Advance, pp. 1–15 issn 1047-7039 eissn 1526-5455 informs ® doi 10.1287/orsc.1100.0630 H ow do critics enable producers and consumers to come to mutually agreeable terms of trade? We propose that critics offer more guidance to those who set prices when their quality assessments are structured by clearer evaluative schemas. Schema clarity...
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With growing interest in the penalties associated with straddling market categories, it is important to develop a stock of evidence about the relative importance of consideration and valuation penalties in different empirical settings. In this chapter, we isolate the possible adverse implications for currently kosher Israeli wine producers that wer...
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When product quality cannot be ascertained in advance of purchase, producers must convince relevant audiences that they are worthy of consideration as quality players. We propose that quality-oriented producers will selectively publicize information about their skilled employees in anticipation of signaling benefits, which include the accrual of vi...
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This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations. We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in non-local populations are more likely to adopt locally novel forms. Pre-founding experience within local and non-local industry populations should also allow organizations to reach larger size...
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Status hierarchies provide for orderly pricing in markets by providing observable network-based indicators of underlying product quality. They also parse markets into producers that are and are not worthy of consideration as quality-oriented players. Mediators such as critics and analysts also address the problem of unobservable product quality in...
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Notwithstanding the observed positive correlations between critics' quality ratings and wine prices, the range of these correlations is quite high. In light of this, researchers must consider the factors that either strengthen or weaken the association between quality ratings and prices. In this paper, we propose that the slope of the relationship...
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To what extent are firm size differences influenced by entrepreneurs’ pre-founding experience, and do these differences persist over time? We analyze these questions using a novel data set assembled for Australian and New Zealand wine producers on their heritage and sizes at various ages. Our findings indicate that on average firms founded by indiv...
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Diversification research argues that new products are more successful when they leverage a firm's intangible resources, which may support multiple activities without engendering rivalry for their use. However, numerous complementary resources may also be needed to exploit a firm's intangibles. If these resources are in limited supply, or if it take...
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The growth and development of a firm depend on its ability to introduce new products over time. To do this successfully, it requires technological knowledge, the ability to combine knowledge elements into valuable new products, and the complementary assets that facilitate the manufacturing, sales, and distribution of those products. We argue that t...
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This study examines the adoption of new products and processes in the Australian retail banking industry over the 1981 to 1995 period. Our analysis demonstrates that the vast majority of observed innovative activity was based on ideas sourced from outside the focal firm, and that innovations diffused very quickly across competing banks. As such, th...
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Good corporate reputations are critical because of their potential for value creation, but also because their intangible character makes replication by competing firms considerably more difficult. Existing empirical research confirms that there is a positive relationship between reputation and financial performance. This paper complements these fin...
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In markets for experience goods, quality signals are important determinants of the prices received by competing offerings. However, given consumers' cognitive limitations, all signals do not receive equal attention. Rather, the level of attention paid to a product's quality signals increases with its producer's level of market experience, and (give...
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Studies of firm-level profit dynamics tend to attribute the variance in profit persistence to variability in the extent to which imitative pressures are resisted. This monopoly-based explanation of persistent profitability implicitly assumes a one-to-one correspondence between firm-level and product-level profit dynamics. Following Schumpeter, this...
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Friendships with competitors can improve the performance of organizations through the mechanisms of enhanced collaboration, mitigated competition, and better information exchange. Moreover, these benefits are best achieved when competing managers are embedded in a cohesive network of friendships (i.e., one with many friendships among competitors),...
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Increasingly, strategy scholars are exploring the relationships between innovation, competition, and the persistence of superior profits. Sustained high profitability may result when a firm repeatedly introduces valuable innovations that service previously unmet consumer demands. While the returns to the firm from each innovation may erode over tim...
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A question invariably recurs in discussions about corporate reputation: are they cause, consequence, or epiphenomenon? That is: do they have an independent causal effect on corporate performance; are they a consequence of good financial performance? Or are they an incidental by-product? The second day of the conference began with a review of avail-...
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A question invariably recurs in discussions about corporate reputation: are they cause, consequence, or epiphenomenon? That is: do they have an independent causal eÄect on corporate performance; are they a consequence of good financial performance? Or are they an incidental by-product? The second day of the conference began with a review of avail-...
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Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Business. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1996.

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