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Sidorchuk, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

critical corner of sight activity on support of SME in Russia is considered. Problems of small business are formulated and …

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Complementarities between IT and Organizational Structure: The Role of Corporate Exploration and Exploitation

Mahr, Ferdinand; Kretschmer, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...

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Business Owners’ Preferences in Marketing Practices and their Impact on Firm Performance

Ghouri, AM; Saleem, F; Malik, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This short paper is the extended part of Ghouri, et al. (2011) study. This paper presents the finding about the owners of restaurant and catering businesses marketing practices. This study showed their mindset about the marketing practices. The findings suggest that owners of restaurants and...

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Botswana’s revealed comparative advantage

Makochekanwa, Albert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Analysis of Botswana’s competitiveness in world trade has been presented based on indices of revealed comparative … advantage (RCA) calculated for the period 1999 and 2004. Results show that Botswana has RCA in diamonds, copper matte, and meat …

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The stuff of legend: diamonds and development in southern Africa

Noland, Marcus; Spector, Brooks - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This essay establishes four propositions. First, the diamond industry has been a positive force for development in southern Africa. Second, jewelry, among the most profitable segments of the industry, is a non-essential luxury, and accordingly, consumer concerns over conflict diamonds pose a...

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Economic Development in Pre-Independence Botswana, 1820-1966: Historical Trends, Contributing and Countervailing Factors

Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it … then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or hindered economic development in Botswana: In particular, I focus …, demographic trends, as well as on ethnic divisions and cultural belief systems. Finally, I discuss how prepared Botswana was for …

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Maximum likelihood estimation and inference for approximate factor models of high dimension

Bai, Jushan; Li, Kunpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

An approximate factor model of high dimension has two key features. First, the idiosyncratic errors are correlated and heteroskedastic over both the cross-section and time dimensions; the correlations and heteroskedasticities are of unknown forms. Second, the number of variables is comparable or...

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Political uncertainty in a data-rich environment

Scheffel, Eric Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We asses the general robustness of previous findings claiming that policy uncertainty exerts non-trivial influences on the US economy. Measuring the dynamic effects from a shock to policy uncertainty within a FAVAR model permits gauging the response of many more variables to policy uncertainty...

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Determinants of firm competitiveness: case of the Turkish textile and apparel industry

Lau, Chi Keung Marco; Suvankulov, Farrukh; Karabag, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article explores determinants of competitiveness in the booming Turkish textile and apparel industry. Using focus groups, nationwide survey data and explanatory factor analysis we identify 27 competitiveness items grouped into eight constructs. According to Turkish managers, the...

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Assessing uncertainty in Europe and the US: is there a common uncertainty factor?

Sauter, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper is an empirical investigation of uncertainty in the Euro Zone as well as the US. It conducts a factor analysis of uncertainty measures starting in 2001 until the end of 2011. For this purpose I use survey-based data provided by the ECB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as...

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