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Corporate Governance Rating and Family Firms: The Greek Case
Spanos, Loukas; Tsipouri, Lena; Xanthakis, Manolis - EconWPA - 2005
Corporate governance (CG) studies have mostly focused on highly dispersed corporations. However, there is an important need for research exploring the governance structure of family-owned firms. The main characteristics that distinguish the family firm from the other types of corporations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076961
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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge
Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005
from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412880
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State-owned Banks as Competition Enhancers, or the Grand Illusion
Bichsel, Robert; Spielmann, Christian - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze the role of state-ownership in the banking sector from the perspective of competition. Considering both the … charge and/or offer relatively customer friendly interest rates? And (iii) is competition intensified by the conduct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076864
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STRATEGY, COMPETITION AND DIVERSIFICATION IN EUROPEAN AND MEXICAN BANKING
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Wood, Douglas - EconWPA - 2002
applications were perceived as an important force to modify competition in bank markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076872
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Competition in B2C eCommerce: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence
Schmitz, Stefan W.; Latzer, Michael - EconWPA - 2002
competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical … the intensity of competition in B2C eCommerce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076898
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Altruism, Spite and Competition in Bargaining Games
Montero, Maria - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124853
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Information technology innovations and commercial banking: A review and appraisal from an historical perspective
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Wood, Douglas - EconWPA - 2002
Technological innovation in general and information technology (IT) applications in particular, have had a major effect … technological innovation in retail banking markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125842
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Information technology innovations and commercial banking: A review and appraisal from an historical perspective
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Wood, Douglas - EconWPA - 2002
Technological innovation in general and information technology (IT) applications in particular, have had a major effect … technological innovation in retail banking markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125856
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Can Increasing Private School Participation and Monetary Loss in a Voucher Program Affect Public School Performance? Evidence from Milwaukee
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005
The Milwaukee voucher program, as implemented in 1990, allowed only non- sectarian private schools to participate in the program. Following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, the program saw a major shift and entered into its second phase, when religious private schools were allowed to...
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Management of Core Capabilities in Mexican and European Banks
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Wood, Douglas - EconWPA - 2002
competitors and forms of competition. These external changes provided new diversification and growth opportunities but also … competition in bank markets by supporting radical re-engineering of service delivery in ways that undermined previous advantagees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134405