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Product Repositioning by Merging Firms
Atalay, Enghin; Sorensen, Alan T.; Sullivan, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine merging firms' additions and removals of products for a sample of 66 mergers across a wide variety of … firms. Merging firms tend to both drop and add products at the periphery of their joint product portfolios, with the net …
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The economic significance of gasoline wholesale price volatility to retailers
Brewer, Jedidiah; Nelson, David M.; Overstreet, George - In: Energy Economics 43 (2014) C, pp. 274-283
We show that gasoline retailer profits heavily depend on the direction of wholesale cost movements. Using a unique, firm-level, proprietary sample of 121 U.S. gasoline retailers collectively operating over 4500 stores, we find that it tends to be only in months when wholesale prices are...
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The Circulation of Ideas: Firms Versus Markets
Hellmann, Thomas F; Perotti, Enrico C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
generation. Firms, as controlled idea exchange systems, can reward idea generation but can do so only by restricting their … environment that allows ideas to cross firm boundaries enhances the rate of innovation and creates a symbiotic relationship … between markets and firms. …
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How Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing?
Phillips, Gordon M.; Sertsios, Giorgo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
contrast, in bankruptcy product quality increases relative to financial distress. In addition, we find that firms price more … aggressively when in financial distress consistent with firms trying to increase short-term market share and revenues. …
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The moderating effects of national culture on the development of organisational learning culture: A multilevel study across seven countries
Skerlavaj, Miha; Su, Chunke; Huang, Meikuan - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 1, pp. 97-134
This study examines the moderating effects of national culture dimensions (Hofstede 1980) on three key elements in the development of organisational learning culture: information acquisition, information interpretation and behavioral and cognitive changes. Data were collected from 1333 companies...
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SCALE AND SCOPE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN FOOD RETAILERS AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONDITION
Cyrek, Piotr - In: Oeconomia Copernicana 4 (2013) 1, pp. 131-145
Dynamic changes of economic structures resulting partially from globalization processes and international integration, strengthened by technological development induce economic entities to search for strategic as well as operational solutions that enable to gain and maintain competitive...
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The role of psychic distance stimuli on the East-West FDI location structure in the EU. Evidence from Spanish MNEs
Palmero, Alfredo Jiménez; Herrera, Juan José Durán; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 1, pp. 36-65
Eastern Europe nowadays represents an important and attractive economic area for foreign direct investment. Determinants of investments have converged with those of other European countries. However, it has been argued that a differentiated East-West structure still exists in Europe. This study...
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Why some Russian industrial companies innovate regularly: Determinants of firms’ decisions to innovate and associated routines
Gurkov, Igor - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 1, pp. 66-96
understand the forces that lead some firms to decide to engage in more innovative activities than others and examined the types …
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The effect of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation, customer orientation and firm performance in an international context: an empirical analysis from Aust...
Filser, Matthias; Eggers, Fabian; Kraus, Sascha; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 19 (2014) 1, pp. 7-30
orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling … revealed that financial resource availability is attributed to EO and, subsequently, to firm growth. However, differences … identified with regard to financial resource availability and CO in Austria. Furthermore, the effect of CO on firm growth showed …
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The effect of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation, customer orientation and firm performance in an international context: an empirical analysis from Aust...
Filser, Matthias; Eggers, Fabian; Kraus, Sascha; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 19 (2014) 1, pp. 7-30
orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling … revealed that financial resource availability is attributed to EO and, subsequently, to firm growth. However, differences … identified with regard to financial resource availability and CO in Austria. Furthermore, the effect of CO on firm growth showed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775509