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The Influence of Human Capital on the Direction and Organization of Firm Growth.

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Title/Author:	The Influence of Human Capital on the Direction and Organization of Firm Growth./
Author:	Brown, Daniel.
Description:	1 online resource (131 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-12A.
Subject:	Intellectual property. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798382775906

The Influence of Human Capital on the Direction and Organization of Firm Growth.
Brown, Daniel.

The Influence of Human Capital on the Direction and Organization of Firm Growth. - 1 online resource (131 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the influence of human capital on the direction and organization of firm growth. The first chapter examines the influence of reduced resource redeployment costs on market entry, entry mode, and organizational structure by testing the impact of changes in state-level occupational licensing rules on law firms. The findings suggest that firms are more likely to enter a market when redeployment costs drop, yet less likely to enter using a new physical establishment. Moreover, the study indicates that firms increase their managerial span of control in response to lower redeployment costs. Relatedly, firms increase the level of worker specialization, since expanded market access enables workers to concentrate on a greater depth of specialized knowledge. With these new opportunities for flexible firm expansion, firm performance improves as redeployment costs decrease.The second chapter examines the potential impact of Q&A websites on the adoption of technologies. Using data from Stack Overflow - one of the most popular Q&A websites worldwide - and implementing an instrumental-variable approach, the study finds that users whose questions are answered within 24 hours are significantly more likely to adopt the technologies that they ask about in their next job than users whose questions are answered later or not at all. In analyzing heterogeneous effects, results indicate that this relationship is driven entirely by users located in or in close proximity to technological hubs, is stronger for more established technologies, and for users who have already asked more questions about a focal technology. These findings suggest that the feedback provided by virtual communities functions as a complement to physical proximity, rather than as a substitute. The third chapter examines the relationship between reduced patent enforceability and the mobility of inventor-employees and explores the related influence on firms' innovative activities. The analysis relies on the US Supreme Court ruling eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., which decreased the use of injunctions in patent infringement cases and, consequently, the risk firms and individuals faced from being sued for patent infringement. The study uses difference-in-differences specifications that include state-year, firm, and technological fixed effects, and a host of other controls. Using patent application data to track the movements of 50,283 early career patent inventors before and after the ruling, the analysis finds that in the post-ruling period, inventor-employees at firms with a greater reliance on intellectual property are relatively more likely to leave their employer, and that this relationship is strongest for employees involved in basic research and those with generalizable skills.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382775906Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Intellectual property.
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Corporate strategyIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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