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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization
Hanousek, Jan; Ko?enda, Evžen; Svejnar, Jan - 2004
-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …
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Liberalization, Corporate Governance, and the Performance of Newly Privatized Firms
Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrance - 2001
This paper seeks to provide an answer to the following question, namely when and how does privatization work? Using a … reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477478
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International joint venture (IJV) marketing performance: alternative approaches to performance measurement
Julian, Craig C - 2005
This paper assesses International Joint Venture (IJV) marketing performance in the Republic of Thailand, as opposed to general business performance. Furthermore, the paper develops an objective measure to assess IJV marketing performance and compares two different types of measures for measuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475216
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Estimation of Structure-Profit Relationships: Comment
Vernon, John M.; McElroy, Marjorie B. - 1973
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused breakfast cereal manufacturers of illegal monopolization (1971).A major basis for the charge is the FTC belief that high advertising expenditures by the companies create effective entry barriers. One FTC study (1969) reached this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475569
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Entry Barriers and New Venture Performance: A Longitudinal Investigation of Direct and Moderated Effects
Robinson, Kenneth C.; McDougall, Patricia Phillips - 1999
This longitudinal study utilized a sample of 115 independent new manufacturing ventures to empirically investigate the (1) direct (independent) effects of entry barriers on business performance, and (2) the moderating (contingent) effects of other theoretically justified variables on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459033
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Tailored Regulation: Will Voluntary Site-Specific Environmental Performance Standards Improve Welfare?
Blackman, Allen; Boyd, James - 2000
Increasingly popular tailored regulation (TR) initiatives like EPA's Project XL allow plants to voluntarily substitute site-specific environmental performance standards for command-and-control regulations that dictate pollution abatement strategies. TR can significantly reduce participants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446678
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The changing climate for foreign direct investment into Japan
Drysdale, Peter; Naito, Toshi; Trewin, Ray; Wilson, Dominic - 1999
Japan’s prolonged recession over the last five years has provided the impetus for regulatory reform and industry restructuring. Historically, the flow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Japan has been small for an economy of its size. The high degree of vertical integration and relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451448
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges asin the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determinethe access price that network i pays to network j as a linear functionof the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112
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Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers and public policy
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter - 2007
Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm's “absorptive capacity” (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical implications of this. We specify a general model of the absorptive capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441551
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Competition Intensity, Potential Competition and Transaction Cost Economics
Busse, Matthias - 2002
As the process of globalisation of the world economy progresses, the degree of international competition among enterprises increases as well. Yet not all industries or branches are affected to the same extent by this development. One of the most important factors which determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442387