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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...
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A Real Options Approach to Modeling Investments in Competitive, Dynamic Retail Markets
Ashuri, Baabak - 2008
markets. We consider two retailers to illustrate our approach and use a simple game theory treatment to address competition in … tendency for the small discount retailer invests earlier in a new developing market due to the competition effect from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475756
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Do prices fall faster when Wal-Mart is around? The effect of competition and reputation on cost pass-through and price adjustment
Martens, M. Andrea - 2009
that proximity to a Wal-Mart supercenter or the level of competition affects the speed of price adjustment of retailers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444733
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Mergers during the first and second phase of globalization: Success, insider trading, and the role of regulation
Kling, Gerhard - 2004
The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the … merger announcements; thereby, a higher market value is the recipe for success and not firm size. Encouraged by the results … values stemming from a merger announcement, another question would arise. Which type of shareholder gains from higher market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475337
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Bioentrepreneurship in Germany
Patzelt, Holger - 2005
. Problems that may occur during post-merger integration include the incompatibility of the partners? technologies and the … Unternehmen nicht den richtigen Partner findet oder keine Unterst?tzung von seinen Investoren erh?lt. W?hrend der Post-Merger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481003
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dargestellt am Beispiel von Existenzgründerinnen und Existenzgründern im Einzelhandel in den neuen Bundesländern
Panick, Veronika - 1999
Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467098
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Three essays in industrial organization: alliances, mergers, and pricing in commercial aviation
Brown, David R. - 2010
considers the effects of the recent Delta/Northwest merger. This merger is of particular interest because the two airlines are … codeshare partners. Using pre-merger data, a counterfactual simulation is performed in which Delta and Northwest are assumed to … also examine pre-merger predictions with post-merger data and analysis and find that the pre-merger predictions roughly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464059
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Cooperation between Competitors - Subcontracting and the influence of information, production and capacity on market structure and competition
Schenk, Christoph - 1999
Querlieferungen vorgenommen und der Einfluß von Information, Produktion und Kapazität auf Marktstruktur und Wettbewerb analysiert. In … the influence of information, production and capacity on market structure and competition. Three game-theoretic models are … competition policy should stay attentive while allowing for a rule-of-reason. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467017
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Central and Eastern Europe in transition
Hildebrandt, Antje - 2002
Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, marktunterstützende institutionelle Reformen im Transformationsprozess zu analysieren. Als Einstieg in die Thematik wird die Aufnahme mittel- und osteuropäischer Länder in die Europäische Union mit der zurückliegenden Süderweiterung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467024
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Essays on small and medium sized enterprises as drivers of competition in the software market
Swaminathan, Sushmitha - 2010
Schutzrechten durch KMUs dazu führt, dass der Wettbewerb im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) zunimmt …This dissertation focuses on competition within the software market. Specifically it aims to provide further … medium sized enterprises (SME) have on competition in the software industry? Normative contribution to the dynamic policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467047