concentration followed by an expression of satisfaction could be a useful pattern to detect flow. Unexpectedly, the interviews …

We investigate the effect of industrial concentration on productivity growth, a proxy for innovation, in the U.S. food … industries. Here, we search for a possible critical level of concentration, i.e., the inverted-U hypothesis beyond which its … relationship with productivity can turn negative. Productivity growth is specified as function of growth in concentration and vice …

concentration in U.S. food manufacturing industries. However, unlike these authors, who employed the techniques of the new empirical … industrial organization to investigate increasing concentration, our approach is based on the older tradition of the structure …, meaning that the overall effect of rising concentration has been to lower prices. We suggest the difference is due to the …

consolidate. Yet, we know little about the current concentration of the sector and even less about the degree of competition in … various nonprofit subsectors. In this paper we offer a detailed analysis of concentration patterns across the sector and … analyze variations in these patterns by subsector and metropolitan areas. It is well known that measuring concentration is not …

This paper explores the link between quality, cost and concentration. Using concentration and cost data and product …, random effects estimation explores the impact of concentration and cost on quality. The results demonstrate that overall … market concentration and high fixed costs are both positively correlated with product quality across most industries …

This paper attempts to examine which theory is best at explaining the geographic concentration in Java, an island in … Java have found that there was a stable – albeit increasing trend – and persistent geographic concentration in Java over … the period 1976‐1995. Yet some critical questions exist: Why geographic concentration in Java persisted during this period …

. Findings The results of this study show that perceived control of flow and concentration will positively affect consumer … utilitarian value, while concentration and cognitive enjoyment will positively affect hedonic value. Further, the effect of … perceived control, concentration, and cognitive enjoyment. Doing so will create both utilitarian and hedonic values, making …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree of concentration and efficiency in the Vietnamese banking … system using the structural model. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply the concentration ratio (CR), Herfindahl …‐Hirschman Index (HHI) and concentration‐profitability model based upon the Structure‐Conduct‐Performance (SCP) and Efficiency …