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The social responsibility of retailers and small and medium suppliers in international supply chains
Pepe, Cosetta; Musso, Fabio; Risso, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents an overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) drivers within retailers’ supply chains, following a multiple perspective of the different players involved. The study is focused on the relationship between European retailers and small-medium enterprises in the food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114122
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Strategies for Managing Bank’s Legacy Assets:part 2 (of 2) Assessment of strategies and their implementation
Jenk, Justin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265335
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Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and job satisfaction in the malaysian retail sector: the mediating effect of love of money
Tan, Teck Hong; Waheed, Amna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines what motivates employees in the retail industry, and examines their level of job satisfaction, using Herzberg's hygiene factors and motivators. In this study, convenience sampling was used to select sales personnel from women's clothing stores in Bandar Sunway shopping mall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004069
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The effect of Walmart on the tax base: evidence from New Jersey
Vandegrift, Donald; Loyer, John; Kababik, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper measures the impact of 30 Walmart openings on the municipal tax base using panel data for New Jersey municipalities from 1998-2007. We consider the impact of the new Walmart on the home municipality as well as the nearest adjacent municipality in the year the outlet opens as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021980
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Retailers and SME suppliers social responsibility in international supply chains
Pepe, Cosetta; Musso, Fabio; Risso, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an overview of corporate social responsibility drivers within international supply chains, following a multiple perspective of the different players involved. The study focused on the relationship between European large retailers and small-medium manufacturers in the food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025255
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Guest Editorial Preface. Special Issue on Retailer-Consumer Relationships
Musso, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
behavior is changing as well. Companies, both at the production and the distribution level, react and adapt to these changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108789
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The Geography of Retail Inventory
Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
How different are retailers' inventory levels around the world? Specifically, are retailers' inventories constant across countries, converging, or at least co-integrating? These might be viewed as various forms of global determinism. To see which of these forms hold, I use a novel dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619843
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Productivity, Multinationals and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the UK Retail Sector
Anon-Higon, Dolores; Vasilakos, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper discusses the impact of foreign-ownership presence on the productivity performance of domestically-owned British retailers. In specific, we investigate the existence of productivity spillovers in the form of knowledge transfer. To guide our estimations, we develop a simple Hotelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621276
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Price Rigidity and Flexibility: New Empirical Evidence
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western-style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently and lies behind the magical invisible hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835391
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Option Pricing: Real and Risk-Neutral Distributions
Constantinides, George M.; Jackwerth, Jens Carsten; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The central premise of the Black and Scholes [Black, F., Scholes, M. (1973). The pricing of options and corporate … liabilities. Journal of Political Economy 81, 637–659] and Merton [Merton, R. (1973). Theory of rational option pricing. Bell … Journal of Economics and Management Science 4, 141–184] option pricing theory is that there exists a self-financing dynamic …
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