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The Evolution of Grocery Wholesaling and Grocery Wholesalers in Ireland and Britain since the 1930s

Quinn, Jim; Sparks, Leigh - 2007

Studies of industry evolution are relatively scarce outside of industries defined by narrow technological bases. Studies of wholesaling are rarer still. These are curious features given that it is probable that service industries behave differently to manufacturing ones and that wholesaling is...

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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions

Qian, Lihong - 2011

One recent development in the organizational economics approach to strategy management concerns the integration of the organizational capabilities view and the transaction costs theory. My dissertation takes on this task focusing on transaction costs economics, dynamic capabilities, and temporal...

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A longitudinal study of competition and performance in the UK grocery retail industry

Yadav, Arvind - 2008

The grocery retailing industry is a key sector of the UK economy, accounting for 16%of consumer expenditure. As such developments in this sector will have an importanteffect on UK economic and social welfare. Arguably, competition in the sector hasintensified in the last two decades. Yet...

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Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Penyelesaian Penyajian Laporan Keuangan Perusahaan Manufaktur Yang Terdaftar Di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI)

Andriansyah, Halim - 2011

This research has a pupose to provide empirical evident about factors that effect the finalization of financial statement. The examined factors on this research are profit, solvability, firm size, firm age, and public accountant size.The research sample consist of 177 firms from 2006 through...

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Easing the natural gas crisis: Reducing natural gas prices through increased deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency

Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark; St. Clair, Matt - 2008

growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy and …

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Restoring Equilibrium to Natural Gas Markets: Can Renewable Energy Help?

Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2009

growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy …

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Workforce diversity in a research and development environment -- a model that works

McDavid, S. - 2008

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Engineering Directorate is in the third year of a diversity process that has changed the culture of the organization in many ways. This work outlines progress toward realizing the LLNL Engineering Diversity Model. Currently recommendations are...

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The domestic natural gas and oil initiative. Energy leadership in the world economy

2008

Two key overarching goals of this Initiative are enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. industry and reducing the trends toward higher imports. These goals take into account new Federal policies that reflect economic needs, including economic growth, deficit reduction, job creation...

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Profitability of UK construction contractors

Akintoye, Akintola S.; Skitmore, Martin - 1991

, of a sub-sample of 8 very large companies, showed that profitability enhancement was associated with diversification into …

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Bank risk and return: The impact of bank non-interest income

Williams, Barry; Prather, Laurie - 2010

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between … performance variables, this analysis compares the benefits of diversification across different bank types relative to margin … documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While …

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