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product innovation literature that focused on industrial goods, this study used food product data from a 2002 German food …
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In this paper the existence and magnitude of market power for German beer, cocoa powder, chocolate, and sugar confectionary exporters are tested. Two theoretical approaches are employed, the 'pricing of market' (PTM) and the 'residual demand elasticity' (RDE) approach. Even though all markets...
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power affects food manufacturing firms incentives to invest in innovation of high quality food products. On the basis of a … proposition is tested empirically on the basis of firm level data from a survey of food manufacturing firms carried out in 2002 in …
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Product innovation is a competitive strategy in food industry. Successful product development management is a key … determinant of a firm's performance. In recent years functional foods, which are innovative food products that provide health … the effect of functional food innovative activity (compared to overall innovative activity) on the profitability of 23 …
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In recent years functional foods, which are innovative food products that provide health benefits beyond basic … the effect of market structure on overall innovative activity and functional food activity in particular. Furthermore …, this paper analyses the influence of these innovative activities on profitability of 23 German food industry sectors from …
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profitability of 25 German food industry sectors from 1977 to 1994. The analysis reveals a positive effect of diversification on the …
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Nicht zuletzt durch eine Reihe spektakulärer Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse ist die Frage nach den Ursachen, den Folgen und den Möglichkeiten bzw. Notwendigkeiten staatlicher Eingriffe im Rahmen der Wettbewerbspolitik erneut in das Zentrum der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion geraten....
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industries and (d) specifically analyse the flexibility decision in the U.S. food manufacturing industries. The paper is … attention is given to the situation in the food industry. Section 4 concludes. …
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Eine Welle von Fusionen hat die Weltwirtschaft erfasst. Allein die Dimension der bei Großfusionen genannten Summen, die nicht selten das Bruttoinlandsprodukt von Volkswirtschaften übersteigen, führen zu einem erheblichen Maß an Verunsicherung. Dies wird auch in den Überschriften von...
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-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market …, profitability in competitive industries in Germany as well as in all US-food industries are found to be more stable over the …
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