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Strategic orientation and corporate citizenship: Are there differences in strategy types?
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2007
Corporate citizenship is a strategic imperative, one that can significantly affect firm competitiveness. However, there is little research to demonstrate what actually shapes or drives firms towards a more proactive posture with respect to corporate citizenship. This paper makes a case that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434956
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Vatkst, profit og strategisk orienteering i gazellevirksomheder (Growth, profitability and strategic orientation among gazelle firms)
Senderovitz, Martin; Klyver, Kim; Steffens, Paul R. - 2010
Growth and profitability are often essential parts of the overall managerial goals of firms. High growth can be seen as an indicator of success and as a mean for achieving competitive advantage and higher profitability. But high growth can also lead to a number of managerial and organisational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438273
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In search of the drivers of high growth in manufacturing SMEs
O'Regan, N; Ghobadian, A; Gallear, D N - 2006
Though considerable attention in the extant literature has been devoted to growth and performance of firms, there is a dearth of research on high growth firms. Furthermore, the majority of literature in this area focuses on large firms while research on high growth small firms is underdeveloped....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465525
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THE ROLE INNOVATION ON STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS AND COMPETITIVENESS OF ENTERPRISES
OBRADOVIC, Dragisa; OBRADOVIC, Dragan - 2016
The most important strategic decisions related to technology in a company related precisely to determine the timing of the election of a new technology that will replace the existing one. By monitoring all the new features will be prevented that the existing technology comes a phase of maturity...
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Spatial dependence and individual-tree growth models I. Characterising spatial dependence
Fox, J. C.; Bi, H. Q.; Ades, P. K. - 2007
neighbours are subject to similar environmental conditions, but the confounding influence of competition was also observed over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448357
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Settling for second best?: Reflections after the tenth anniversary of Wal-Mart's entry to the United Kingdom
Sparks, Leigh - 2011
Purpose - This paper evaluates the comparative progress of Asda in the UK since its surprise takeover by Wal-Mart in 1999. Wal-Mart expected to become the #1 retailer in the UK and many commentators saw massive problems ahead for local retailers. These expectations were not met; this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465849
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Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics
Olsen, TL; Parker, RP - 2008
We investigate the situation where a customer experiencing an inventory stockout at a retailer potentially leaves the firm's market. In classical inventory theory, a unit stockout penalty cost has been used as a surrogate to mimic the economic effect of such a departure; in this study, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431041
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Trading in European Equity Markets: Fragmentation and Market Quality
Wagener, Martin - 2011
The introduction of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) ended the quasi-monopoly of national exchanges in equity trading across Europe and enabled alternative platforms, so-called multilateral trading facilities (MTF), to compete for order flow. This thesis analyzes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434477
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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction
Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004
point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435083
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The Effects Of Competition On The Price For Cable Modem Internet Access
Chen, Yongmin; Savage, Scott J. - University of Colorado at Boulder; University of … - 2007
An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition … access, with orwithout competition from a DSL provider, and using education dispersionand ethnic diversity as proxies for …, competition reduces prices. As preference becomes morediverse, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; andwhen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435113