Managers like to think well of themselves, and of the firms that employ them. However, positive illusions can bias a manager's evaluation of market outcomes, self-servingly crediting success on the superior quality of one's own product but blaming failure on the aggressive price of a...

In his classic work on response to failing organizations, Hirschman (1970) argued that more exit options leads to a reduction in the use of voice to address institutional failures. School choice is premised on the idea that more exit options can lead schools to improve themselves for fear of...

This paper examines the financial decisions made by companies, the strategies that organizations follow, the alignment between these two variables, and the relationship of financial decisions to the level of competitiveness. Two hundred two businesses' testimonies in the region of Celaya were...

Competition authorities in Europe have taken enforcement action against the GAFA-companies Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. The “theory of harm” in such cases re-mains vague, however, and it is disputed whether the cases really contain competition law issues. The submission in this paper...

This paper investigates whether greater competition increases or decreases individual bank and banking system risk. Using a new text-based measure of competition, and an instrumental variables analysis that exploits exogenous variation in bank deregulation, we provide robust evidence that...

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate how decision-makers’ perception of the level of foreign-based competition in the home market affects their intention to de-internationalise and how decision-makers’ role moderates this relationship. Research Design & Methods: A set of...

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of competitive intelligence in making strategic marketing decisions at small and medium businesses in Kurdistan region of Iraq. However, the researchers used five competitive intelligence dimensions (market intelligence, competitor intelligence,...