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After outsourcing – the outsourced unit: Dependence, capabilities and strategy
Sanner, Leif - 2005
Outsourcing is in this study defined as the transfer of responsibility and activities, including relevant assets and … outsourcer and other buyers. Specifically, the outsourced unit after outsourcing has ample and tight bonds to the outsourcer and … reported in this article is: How can the outsourced unit strategically handle its situation after the outsourcing? Issues at …
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Measuring dynamic connectedness with large Bayesian VAR models
Korobilis, Dimitris; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2018
We estimate a large Bayesian time-varying parameter vector autoregressive (TVP-VAR) model of daily stock return volatilities for 35 U.S. and European financial institutions. Based on that model we extract a connectedness index in the spirit of Diebold and Yilmaz (2014) (DYCI). We show that the...
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Money in finance
Wray, L. Randall - 2011
This paper begins by defining, and distinguishing between, money and finance, and addresses alternative ways of financing spending. We next examine the role played by financial institutions (e.g., banks) in the provision of finance. The role of government as both regulator of private...
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"Servicification of Manufacturing - Evidence from Swedish Firm and Enterprise Group Level Data"
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2010
The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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Input control and random choice: Improving the selection process for journal articles
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The referees rarely agree and often are biased. This paper discusses two alternative measures to evaluate scholars. The first alternative suggests input control. The second one...
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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment
Mayr, Harald - 2022
Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...
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Rankings games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...
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Digitalisierung im deutschen Funkfachhandel: Empfehlungen zu den Möglichkeiten eines Change Management auf der Grundlage einer aktuellen empirischen Analyse
Häder, Dieter; Zerres, Christopher - 2016
In diesem aktuellen IfM Working Paper werden Handlungsempfehlungen zur Lösung der Problematik einer Neupositionierung der deutschen Funkfachhändler gegeben. Die Basis dieser Empfehlungen stellen die Ergebnisse von Leitfadeninterviews dar, die mit Experten dieser KMU-Branche geführt worden sind.
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Shattering the Myth of Costless Price Changes: Emerging Perspectives on Dynamic Pricing
Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel; Ritson, Mark; … - 2003
In this paper we argue that pricing is all about price changes, and that the costs of price changes are often simultaneously subtle and substantial. We discuss a framework to deal with the dynamics of changing prices. This framework incorporates customer interpretations of price changes, an...
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"The Real Thing:" Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959
Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew T. - 2004
We report that the price of a 6.5oz Coke was 5¢ from 1886 until 1959. Thus, we are documenting a nominal price rigidity that lasted more than 70 years! The case of Coca-Cola is particularly interesting because during the 70-year period there were substantial changes in the soft drink industry...
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