We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) have been receiving lesser focus from the software vendors than large enterprises (LEs).Research on the implementation of ERP in certain European countries shows that the job of implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a riskier business for...

Many quantitative and qualitative studies have been conducted in various countries for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation in the Large Enterprise (LEs) as well as for Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) to capture the full benefits of ERP systems; still there is a lack of...