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Purpose – While fierce global competition has negative environmental and social impacts and may lead large companies to act irresponsibly, corporate social responsibility (CSR) academic literature, especially stakeholder theory, pays little attention to competition and market pressure. It only...
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Purpose – While fierce global competition has negative environmental and social impacts and may lead large companies to act irresponsibly, corporate social responsibility (CSR) academic literature, especially stakeholder theory, pays little attention to competition and market pressure. It only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074401
The purpose is to study the effect of a low-price guarantee (PG) on store price image and store patronage intention. Two kinds of low-price guarantee are studied, a price-matching guarantee (PMG) where the price difference is refunded and a price-beating guarantee (PBG) where a retailer offers...
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We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring of high-tech production. Our model features two-sided heterogeneity in the labor market: high- and low-skilled workers are matched in a frictional labor market with high- and...
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diffusion of norms in the context of globalization. It measures the influence of nonstate actors on foreign societies and states … adopted this discourse and integrated many practices prevalent in the US private sector. It shows that the globalization of …
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There have been increasing warnings lately that the world economy is in danger of disintegrating. How realistic are … such fears? Could the world's trading partners have a serious interest in such a development and be prepared to accept the …
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innovations. We apply the Campbell (1991) decomposition for industry-by-country, all-country, global industry, and world market …
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We offer evidence that interest rate spreads on syndicated loans to corporate borrowers are economically significantly smaller in Europe than in the U.S., other things equal. Differences in borrower, loan and lender characteristics associated with equilibrium mechanisms suggested in the...
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This paper evaluates the hypothesis that globalization has increased the role of international factors and decreased … globalization and inflation hypothesis. Our results provide little support for that hypothesis. First, the estimated effect of … countries owes to globalization. Finally, and most surprisingly, our econometric results indicate no increase over time in the …
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