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Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2006.
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This dissertation is an empirical investigation into the distributive effects of overand under-education, defined as market outcomes such that some workers possess skills over or below those required at their jobs respectively. This type of market failure can arise in assignment and search...
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The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the...
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We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from Social Security records to document earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, showed a substantial decrease during the 1997-2007...
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.S. minority and women owned small businesses. Research in this area to date has addressed minorities and women in international … a domestic focus (Dunning, 1993; Guisinger, 1985). The importance of this research is to help minority and women owned …, technology has no bearing on the success of minority and women owned small businesses, and small businesses should globalize …
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Theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that in many markets with standards competition, network effects make the strong grow stronger and can “tip” the market toward a single, winner-take-all standard. We hypothesize, however, that this sort of standards-induced market dominance may be...
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The possession of key international technical standards in some technology-based sectors can provide considerable advantages for firms wishing to internationalize rapidly and early. Avaro, a start-up Korean company, developed and owned a critical standard in the emerging international mobile...
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This paper examines the conditions under which exploration of a new, incompatible technologyisconducive to firm growth in the presence of network externalities. In particular,this studyis motivated bythe divergent evolutions of the PC and the workstation markets inresponse to a new technology:...
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Die Softwarebranche beklagt sich ?ber durch Raubkopien verursachte Sch?den in H?he von mehreren Miliarden Euro. In diesem Zusammenhang wird oft die Forderung laut, das Internet m?sse besser ?berwacht werden, um die zunehmende Verbreitung von Raubkopien einzud?mmen. Erg?nzend verlangen viele...
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This paper studies competition in a network industry with a stylized two layered network structure, and examines: (i) price and connectivity incentives of the upstream networks, and (ii) incentives for vertical integration between an upstream network provider and a downstream firm. The main...
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