Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 319
Cover Image
Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver - 2015
This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024843
Cover Image
Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
Cover Image
Optimal quality choice under uncertainty on market development
Tamini, Lota D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of risk and ambiguity aversion - Knightian uncertainty - on the choice of optimal … aversion while it is a non-monotonic function of the level of risk. For low levels of risk, the increase of product quality is … an efficient response. Up to certain threshold level of risk, risk and ambiguity aversion reduce the optimal quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108902
Cover Image
Assembling Toyota in Portugal
Machado, Tiago; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
A lot has been written over the last decade with regard to Toyota and the productive model associated to it (toyota-ism). And more specifically concerning the "(…) best-seller that changed the... sociological world" (Castillo, 1998: 31). But the case of Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619769
Cover Image
A justification for the role of audits?: adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and jurisdictional analyses (Brazil, China,Japan and South Africa)
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for … between systemic risk and information asymmetries – hence the justification for greater focus on information channels as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107937
Cover Image
Why the traditional principal agent theory may no longer apply to concentrated ownership systems and structures
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper not only considers why many concentrated ownership structured systems and jurisdictions are considering a shift to the Anglo American style of corporate governance, but also explores why the traditional principal agency theory model may no longer apply in many concentrated ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109640
Cover Image
Why the traditional principal agent theory may no longer apply to concentrated ownership systems and structures
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper not only considers why many concentrated ownership structured systems and jurisdictions are considering a shift to the Anglo American style of corporate governance, but also explores why the traditional principal agency theory model may no longer apply in many concentrated ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112064
Cover Image
Vertical Integration and Fuel Diversity in Electricity Generation – a theoretical study in imperfect competition
Fristrup, Peter; Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper contains an analysis of stylised natural gas and electricity supply sectors. Power plants operate either on natural gas or on a competing fuel – e.g. oil. The competing fuel is assumed to be traded at world market price whereas natural gas is sold by a national monopoly. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258577
Cover Image
Bye to Vertical Integration and Welcome to the Horizontal Integration in the Textile Business
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Hasan, Syed Akif; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
When it’s about production then association between the machinery and efficiency is gauged. This investigation seeks the matter whether vertical integration (balanced integration) in an organization provides better results and profits. The focused industry was textile with a sample size of 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259257
Cover Image
Measuring trade in value added in the new industrial economy: statistical implications
Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
responded to the obvious risk of obsolescence by launching a series of joint initiatives in order to adapt all the instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260040