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This paper explores whether asymmetric pricing can be identified in the eleven euro zone countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) by utilizing Error Correction Model on the weekly price changes in order to assess current and...
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The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms)...
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-eco-innovation on firm performance. The paper provides insights into the role government regulation can play in directing and … firm performance. Findings - The findings suggest that regulation and customer perception can explain a firm‟s decision to … engage in eco-innovation. Eco-innovation is also found to be more important than non-eco-innovation in determining firm …
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Increasing evidence shows that ICT investment improves firm performance. Among the many explanations on why ICT … contributed to labor productivity surge since 1990, this is the most promising one. It is thus necessary to take the firm as an … value of information. It shows that under certain business conditions, a firm with certain type of information processing …
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The experiences of the developed countries reveals that a good corporate governance could reduces risk, stimulates performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases the value of the corporations, enables the...
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The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees. I focus on the within-plant diversity of employees’...
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“resources” can be integrated into a more general (capability based) theory of the nature and essence of the firm that recognizes … the importance to the firm of creating (and capturing) value from innovation. We note that the appropriability of returns … activity that extends beyond the mere exercise of authority. We suggest that the nature and objective of the firm in an economy …
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The experiences of the developed countries reveals that a good corporate governance could reduces risk, stimulates performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases the value of the corporations, enables the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621567
qualitative variables. Twenty-one value drivers are defined, concerning the target firm (strategic assets in place and expected … interval [0,1]. Such a number expresses the valuegenerating power of the target firm inclusive of synergies with the bidder …
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qualitative variables. Twenty-one value drivers are defined, concerning the target firm (strategic assets in place and expected … interval [0,1]. Such a number expresses the value-generating power of the target firm inclusive of synergies with the bidder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621647