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This paper analyzes the recent development of the European stock exchanges by stressing the disparities which exist between them. Within the framework of a progressive financial integration, several of these institutions, in particular of Eastern Europe and Central Europe are likely to be badly...
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This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....
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The paper compares the research agendas of two different approaches of a meso-analysis which could combine industrial and spatial dynamics: the economics of proximity approach on one side, the regulation theory on the other side. Their specificities and divergences are identified in the first...
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-profit platforms affects sellers’ investment incentives. Investments in cost reduction, quality, or marketing measures are here to … investment incentives. As for-profit intermediaries reduce the rents that are availale in the market, one might suspect that … sellers have weaker investment incentives with competing for-profit platforms. However, this is not necessarily the case. The …
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After a survey of the main agribusiness global value chain analysis methods, the authors propose a larger pattern from the global value chain concept developed by Gereffi. They focus on the necessity of a quantified economic characterization and a diachronic study of the global value chain. This...
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We develop a model that investigates how strategically interacting firms share a given set of spatially separated markets. We show that, for intermediate val-ues of transport costs, the spatial distribution of firms determines the structure of interregional trade, which in return influences this...
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Following the worldwide surge in cooperative alliances and mergers & acquisitions, this article attempts to evaluate the effects of the national environment on alliance strategies. Based on a sample of 4632 interfirm linkages formed by French and German companies, the empirical study shows that,...
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This article reviews the carmaker-driven industrial restructurings that positioned First Tier Suppliers (henceforth FTS) at the heart of the world’s automobile system. It also draws necessarily temporary conclusions about their performance. The article is organised into three main sections....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816023
A synthetic bibliographic analysis of the main researches concerning services activities indicates the limits for the strategic problematic. In this article, a critical study proposes a general point of view, which articulates the questions of services researches. This point of view conceives...
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