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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...
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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...
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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...
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neighbours are subject to similar environmental conditions, but the confounding influence of competition was also observed over …
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considered through a brief discussion of the company’s history to 1999, an investigation of the changes Wal-Mart subsequently …
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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...
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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...
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point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …
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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 …
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for firms seekingto grow two-sided exchange networks. A two-sided exchange network is abusiness model (such as Ebay or … whether to disclose the numberof buyers and/or sellers, and the exact number to disclose. We find thatwhen presented together …
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