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on Intellectual Property Rights |
| By: | James Driver |
| Abstract: | This project benefitted the U.S. Census Bureau by the creation of novel, dynamic and data-driven innovation-industry classification systems (i.e., IICSs). The goal of these classification systems is to track a firm’s endogenous choice of innovation and be able to assign it to one, or more, innovation-industries through time. To capture and measure a firm’s innovative output, it is proposed to categorize a firm by its portfolio of patent abstracts from granted, USPTO utility patents where the firm is the original assignee. The idea is to capture the firm responsible for the innovation and to observe the area(s) in which it is innovating. A benefit of utilizing granted patents is that it allows one to compare public and private firms, and their roles in innovation. |
| Keywords: | BERD, LBD, CMF, USPTO |
| Date: | 2026–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cen:tnotes:26-29 |
| By: | Alice Guzzetti (Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano]); Annachiara Docimo (Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano]); Glyn Atwal (BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon Bourgogne (ESC)); Klaus Heine (EM - EMLyon Business School) |
| Abstract: | Purpose: This study investigates how intense dissatisfaction among frontline employees in the luxury retail sector leads to negative brand-oriented behaviours, conceptualized as employee brand hate. Design/methodology/approach: A database of 2, 721 negative employee reviews from Glassdoor.com was analysed using opinion mining, semi-supervised machine learning techniques and regression analysis. Findings: The analysis of employee-generated content identified ten key drivers of negative word-of-mouth. These drivers were further examined through category ranking and comparative analyses across variables such as employee seniority and department. Practical implications: Key issues identified from the employees' perspective provide actionable strategic priorities for mitigating brand hate and strengthening internal brand perceptions. Originality/value: This study extends the brand hate literature by examining employee-driven negative brand-oriented behaviours in the luxury retail sector. |
| Keywords: | Employer branding, Luxury, Retail, Employee brand hate, Brand hate, Negative word-of-mouth |
| Date: | 2026–12–14 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05704526 |
| By: | Johan Fourie |
| Abstract: | A collective tourism brand is jointly produced by assets managed by different custodians, so destination managers must decide which assets require collective protection. We model a destination as a gate times a menu. The gate combines essential inputs and non-reproducible anchors as a weaker-link public good; the menu combines many reproducible attractions through love of variety. Deterioration of a binding gate element has a non-vanishing, brand-wide effect, whereas an individual menu attraction's share vanishes as the menu grows. Aumann-Shapley accounting allocates the jointly produced brand value across assets. Under stated surplus and non-use-value conditions, a decentralized custodian weakly under-maintains physical gate quality holding other qualities fixed. We measure the framework's constructs from guide text with two language models across 166 economies, subject the gate labels to a partial external check against the World Heritage List, and illustrate a within-brand contamination ordering with four French wine regions. |
| Date: | 2026–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2607.17827 |