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The pulse of liability of foreignness : dynamic legitimacy and experiences effects in the German car market
Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006
Globalization has provided many companies with new opportunities for growth and efficiency. This requires them to operate successfully across cultural and social borders. These can be stumbling blocks to internationalization and have been found to cause frequent errors and delays for...
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There's no place like home : a strategic framework to overcome liability of foreignness in the German car market
Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); Zimmermann, Jörg (contributor) - 2005
Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …
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The effects of the block exemption regulation reform on the Swiss car market
Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst; … - 2011
In 2002, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) introduced a Notice on the Competitive Treatment of Vertical Restraints in Automobile Trade (‘Car Notice’). The objective of the Car Notice has been to strengthen competition in the Swiss car market, in particular by avoiding price-fixing...
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Market liberalization : price dispersion, price discrimination and consumer search in the German electricity markets
Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Janssen, Maarten C. W.; … - 2018
We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent providers can price discriminate between searching and...
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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth
Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014
Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...
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Rockets and feathers : asymmetric pricing and consumer search : evidence from electricity retailing
Heim, Sven - 2016
Recent theories suggest that consumers' search efforts are a function of prices and prices changes, respectively. This may help to explain the 'rockets and feathers' phenomenon often assigned to collusion – prices rise like rockets when costs increase and fall like feathers when costs...
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Money and privacy : Android market evidence
Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2014
We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We...
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Rockets and feathers: asymmetric pricing and consumer search : evidence from electricity retailing
Heim, Sven - 2019 - This version: March 13, 2019
In many markets prices react stronger to rising than to falling costs. This asymmetric cost pass-through is still not fully understood, but recent theories suggest that asymmetric adjustments of consumers' search efforts to rising and to falling prices may help to explain this. I use novel panel...
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Targeted advertising in magazine markets
Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2010
We examine the scope and value of targeted advertising in the magazine industry. We use data on reader characteristics at individual media, in contrast to previous work that has needed to infer this information from aggregate data. Our results show a strong relationship between subscriber...
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