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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers
Bouton, Laurent - 2015
unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …
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Supplier Relationships to Family Firms
Rose, Christoph - 2018
Christoph Rose provides a broader differentiation of the perspective on family-owned companies. In contrast to several studies that merely discuss family-owned companies and non-family companies, his analysis is based on family influence, so the dominating heterogeneity of family-owned companies...
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Value-Based Management in Mittelstand : The Relevance to Strategic Decision-Making, Objectives, and Attitudes
Normann-Tschampel, Carola - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Identification of three key topics and research gaps in the literature on VBM in Mittelstand -- Framework for the evaluation of the role of VBM in Mittelstand -- Use of management tools in strategic decision-making -- Specific objectives and nuances in the overall target course -- Understanding...
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Supplier relationships to family firms
Rose, Christoph - 2018
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Value-based management in Mittelstand : the relevance to strategic decision-making, objectives, and attitudes
Normann-Tschampel, Carola - 2020
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Innovations in Small and Medium-Sized Family Firms : An Analysis of Innovation Related Top Management Team Behaviors and Family Firm-Specific Characteristics
Kraiczy, Nils - 2013
Small and medium-sized firms are a prevalent organizational form in Germany. Their importance for the German economy is indisputable. Most of them are global market leaders in their niches and are considered to be a force for innovation in the German economy. The ability to be innovative in...
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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
Bombardini, Matilde - 2009
Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...
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Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...
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Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2010
We study how firms differ from their competitors using new time-varying measures of product differentiation based on text-based analysis of product descriptions from 50,673 firm 10-K statements filed yearly with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This year-by-year set of product...
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Special issue on theory of the family enterprise
2008
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