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This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
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This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
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implementation and for protecting shippers via geographic ("source") competition. …
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Railway, PKP, that would improve the efficiency of the railroad while creating some form of competition in order to prevent … monopoly pricing. Traditional intramodal competition is unlikely to be feasible in the foreseeable future, and for the most … important commodities carried by PKP, intermodal competition is not important. A proposal under discussion is to separate the …
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Not all industries in post-socialist countries are appropriate targets for demonopolization and deregulation: as in the West, some "natural monopoly" sectors will require continued regulation to protect consumers from monopoly abuses. This paper focuses on three aspects of the design of...
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This article explores two of the five major factors that determine success in high-growth small and medium … of the management team are critical and related to the organisational success. High-growth SMEs have been defined as …
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This article explores two of the five major factors that determine success in high-growth small and medium … of the management team are critical and related to the organisational success. High-growth SMEs have been defined as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134957
of Competition to Develop: Rather than compete for new customers, companies are relying on customer inertia to keep their … lead us to recommend against implementing plans to replace traditional regulation with “retail competition” for consumers …
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We study the price adjustment practices and provide quantitative measurement of the managerial and customer costs of price adjustment using data from a large U.S. industrial manufacturer and its customers. We find that price adjustment costs are a much more complex construct than the existing...
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companies operating in Mexico. The success of the corporate ventures in Mexico has been evaluated from the perspectives of … venture affects the success of the venture. The success is associated with high levels of commitment, competitive skills and … and internal fit have shown greater association with venture success. It has also been found that ventures opt for greater …
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