market competition. In markets with effective competition, horizontal multiple directorships turn out to be an efficient … firms have no significant influence on financial performance, irrespective of the level of competition intensity …

European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates … indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …

privatization and market competition (entry of new firms) can increase the productivity of SOEs, even though privatization and entry …The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises … of new ¯rms does not occur. We study productivity at Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras. After it lost its legal …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … a refined version of the CDM model that analyses the impacts of competition on four interrelated stages of the … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

investors), demand trends, customers' profile, nature and intensity of competition in relevant markets. An empirical base for … corporate connections, and horizontal, based on the example of foreign companies in the atmosphere of developed competition …

Belize got its Independence when the region was going through an economic crisis with debt burden and traditional … partially recovered from the major structural changes that Belize has gone through in its post independence period. …