Professor Raffi Amit

Professor Raffi Amit
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
2012 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6370
215.898.7731(telephone)
215.573.7189 (fax)
amit@wharton.upenn.edu

Overview/Bio

Highlights of Academic CV (Current)

Representative Publications

How Are US Family Firms Controlled?, (with B. Villalonga), Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming, 2008.
Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation Across Countries, (with L. Klapper, M. Guillen and M. Quesada), August 2007.
Business Model Design and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms, (with C. Zott), Organization Science, 18(2): 181-199, March-April 2007.
Exploring the Fit Between Business Strategy and Business Model: Implications for Firm Performance, (with C. Zott), Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming, 2007.
Capital Flows and Venture Financing Cycle, (with R. Silveira), Working Paper, September 2006.
How Do Family Ownership, Control and Management Affect Firm Value? (with B. Villalonga), Journal of Financial Economics, 80: 385-417, May 2006.
Self-Selection in Strategic Alliances: Effects on Firm Performance in the Computing Industry, (with R. Arend), European Management Journal, 23, August 2005.
Learning from Failure: Bankruptcy, Firm Age and the Resource-based View, (with S. Thornhill), Organizational Science, 14(5): 497-509, September/October 2003.
The Dynamics of Innovative Activity and Competitive Advantage: The Case of Australian Retail Banking, 1981-95, (with P.W. Roberts), Organizational Science, 14(2): 107-122, March/April 2003.
Venture Capital Syndication: Improved Venture Selection Versus the Value Added Hypothesis, (with J. Brander and W. Antweiler), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 11(3): 423-452, Fall 2002.
Value Creation in e-Business, (with C. Zott), Strategic Management Journal, 22: 493-520, 2001.
Venture-Capital Financing of Entrepreneurship: Theory, Empirical Evidence and a Research Agenda, (with J. Brander and C. Zott), in D. Sexton and H. Landstrom (eds.), Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Blackwell Publishers, 259-281, 2000.
Does Empowerment Lead to Higher Quality and Profitability? (with E. Gal-Or), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 36(4): 411-432, September 1998.
Challenges to Theory Development in Entrepreneurship Research, (with L. Glosten and E. Muller), Journal of Management Studies, 30(5): 815-834, September 1993.
Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent, (with P. Schoemaker), Strategic Management Journal, 14(1): 33-46, 1993.

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