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Gender price gaps and competition: Evidence from a correspondence study
Machelett, Margarita
price gap also falls with the number of nearby repair shops, suggesting that market competition alleviates gender …-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … requests that appear to come from high-income households raise quotes for men but not women, eliminating the gender gap. The …
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Decision-Theoretic Planning under Risk-Sensitive Planning Objectives
Liu, Yaxin - 2005
Risk attitudes are important for human decision making, especially in scenarios where huge wins or losses are possible, as exemplified by planetary rover navigation, oilspill response, and business applications. Decision-theoretic planners therefore need to take risk aspects into account to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476107
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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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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China
Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004
This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437491
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Institutional Logics: Gender and Business Creation Across 28 Countries
Elam, Amanda; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2007
occupational segregation, gender wage inequality, female business leadership and public childcare support) interact with individual …-level perceptions in ways that increase women's start-up across thirteen countries. Results suggest that gender wage inequality has a … decision to start a business indirectly through perceptions and gender. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437620
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Towards a New Theory of Entrepreneurship in Culture and Gender: A Grounded Study of Thailand’s Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs
Hatcher, Caroline A.; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2007
This paper explores the phenomenon of Thailand's female entrepreneurs and account for some of the cultural drivers in the way in which Thai women operate to be the leading country in the world for female entrepreneurship in terms of entrepreneurial activity. Based on interviews, media reporting,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437621
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Passion, women and the games industry : influences on women's participation in the Australian digital content industry
Geneve, Anitza; Nelson, Karen J.; Christie, Ruth J. - 2008
into the perceptions and experiences of female DCI professionals identifying influences such as; existing gender ratios …, gender and occupational stereotypes, access into the industry and future parental responsibilities. The theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437718
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Female Presence on Corporate Boards: A Multi-country study of Environmental Context
Terjesen, Siri A.; Singh, Val - 2008
A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437724