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39
Citations
13068
World Ranking
5496
National Ranking
2600

Overview

Zur Shapira is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the domain of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields such as Strategy and Management, Accounting, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, and Business and International Management.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including International Business and FDI, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Zur Shapira has authored recent papers across various journals and years. Some notable publications include:

  • After the Storm Has Passed: Translating Crisis Experience into Useful Knowledge, 2020, Organization Science
  • Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs, 2021, Journal of World Business
  • Serving rural low-income markets through a social entrepreneurship approach: Venture creation and growth, 2022, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Motivation and Ability: Unpacking Underperforming Firms' Risk Taking, 2024, Organization Science
  • A Special "Provocations and Provocateurs" Section Honoring Jim March, 2020, Journal of Management Inquiry

Their frequent co-authors include Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Ohad Ref, Naomi E. Feldman, and Joseph Lampel. This collaboration has spanned various publications and research projects.

Among the notable venues where Zur Shapira has published are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Organization Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of World Business
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Zur Shapira has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Stanford University Press eBooks titled The Evolution of a New Industry (2020).

Best Publications

  • Managerial perspectives on risk and risk taking

    James G. March;Zur Shapira

  • Variable risk preferences and the focus of attention

    James G. March;Zur Shapira

  • Patterns of behavior of professionally managed and independent investors

    Zur Shapira;Itzhak Venezia;Itzhak Venezia

  • Risk Taking: A Managerial Perspective

    Zur Shapira

  • Experiencing the Improbable: Rare Events and Organizational Learning

    Joseph Lampel;Jamal Shamsie;Zur Shapira

  • Organizational decision making

    Zur Shapira

  • Entrepreneurial finance meets organizational reality: comparing investment practices and performance of corporate and independent venture capitalists

    Gary Dushnitsky;Zur Shapira

  • Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it

    Ohad Ref;Zur Shapira

  • Expectancy determinants of intrinsically motivated behavior.

    Zur Shapira

  • AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF HEURISTICS AND BIASES AFFECTING REAL OPTION VALUATION

    Kent D. Miller;Zur Shapira

  • Firm specific and macro herding by professional and amateur investors and their effects on market volatility

    Itzhak Venezia;Amrut Nashikkar;Zur Shapira

  • “I've Got a Theory Paper---Do You?”: Conceptual, Empirical, and Theoretical Contributions to Knowledge in the Organizational Sciences

    Zur Shapira

  • Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights

    Raghu Garud;Praveen Rattan Nayyar;Zur Shapira

  • The Experienced Utility of Expected Utility Approaches

    Baruch Fischhoff;Bernard Goitein;Zur Shapira

  • Comparing the work values of engineers with managers, production, and clerical workers: A multivariate analysis

    Zur Shapira;Zur Shapira;Terri L. Griffith

  • Organizational Cognition: Computation and Interpretation

    Theresa K. Lant;Zur Shapira

  • Response to Rating Scales: A Theoretical Model and Its Application to the Number of Categories Problem:

    Moshe M. Givon;Zur Shapira

  • Managerial Allocation of Time and Effort: The Effects of Interruptions

    Sridhar Seshadri;Zur Shapira

  • Subjective Expected Utility: A Model of Decision-Making1)

    Baruch Fischhoff;Bernard Goitein;Zur Shapira

  • Judgmental Errors, Interactive Norms, and the Difficulty of Detecting Strategic Surprises

    Joseph Lampel;Zur Shapira

Frequent Co-Authors

Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Kent D. Miller
Kent D. Miller Michigan State University
Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
James P. Walsh
James P. Walsh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph F. Porac
Joseph F. Porac New York University

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