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Although U.S. restaurant firms face high risks in diversifying their operations internationally, there are no previous studies that motivate international diversification. If international diversification is risky then why do restaurant firms go abroad? This study focuses on one potential...
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This dissertation consists of three empirical studies on foreign market entry and development by US fast-food chains. While prior international business research has principally sought to explain when, where and how firms enter foreign markets, surprisingly little attention has been given to...
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Collaboration between organizations benefits from knowledge links -- a form of strategic alliance that gives organizations access to the skills and capabilities of their partner and opportunity to create new capabilities together. Using the example of alliances between two universities and SAP...
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Strategic alliances are a prevalent form of business organization. The criticalcharacteristics of strategic alliances are detailed using Coase (1937) and the resultingdefinition tested through primary research and the alternative form, the infrastructurealliance posited. The thesis examines...
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The leisure industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in Britain (Grade,1998), and in the year 2000 accounted for approximately 10% of Britain's grossdomestic product (LeisureWeek, 2000a). Health clubs have been one of the fastestdeveloping business sectors within the leisure...
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University of MInnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2010. Major: Sociology. Advisor: Professor David Knoke. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 166 pages, appendices A-B.
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Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...
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The purpose of this thesis, which is entitled 'Bioentrepreneurship in Germany', is to study important issues of entrepreneurship research in the specific context of the biotechnology industry. The thesis consists of five empirical studies which cover such diverse topics as financing strategies,...
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Biotechnology is a rapidly expanding field of science that has led to the formation of alarge number of companies that together form a significant sector within the Australianeconomy. Even though there has been considerable growth in the Australian biotechnologysector as a whole, a large...
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The aim of this paper is to propose a way that the development of human social relationship capital can be identified and measured in a construction project environment. Design/methodology/approach: Theory on the creation of social capital and consequent intellectual capital between parties to...
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