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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...
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Integrated Political Strategy
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2009
This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...
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Pricing Strategy and Financial Policy
Dasgupta, Sudipto - 1996
Recent empirical evidence indicates that capital structure changes affect pricing strategies. In most cases, prices increase following the implementation of a leveraged buyout of a major firm in an industry, with the more levered firm charging higher prices on average. Notable exceptions exist...
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Strategic Trade Policy When Domestic Firms Compete Against Vertically Integrated Rivals
Rodrik, Dani - 1989
This paper models the international competition between a domestic firm and its vertically integrated foreign rival …
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to … secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …
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Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock : Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical shock affecting firms using inputs similar to the imported...
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Globalization and Profitability of US Firms : The Role of Intangibles
Chintha, Bullipe R.; Jagannathan, Ravi; Sridhar, Sri S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in …
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Voting on a Trade Agreement : Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness
Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
voters who are aligned with pro-FTA political candidates. We find that import competition plays a role in explaining votes …
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Foreign Competition and the UK
Lake, Arthur W. - 1976
host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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Protection and Competitiveness in Egyptian Agriculture and Industry
Hansen, Bent - 1974
This paper contains the basic statistical material upon which Effective Rates of Protection (ERPs), Domestic Resource Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development. This...
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