oriented around marketing products. In pursuing innovation rents in the commercial phase, firms are reorienting their …

Mergers and acquisitions within the Australian-real estate investment trusts (A-REITs) sector have become a noticeable … trend in the last decade. Utilising event study methodology, 36 successful A-REIT mergers and acquisitions between January …

In a context of globalized competition, mergers and acquisitions are presented as effective strategies in front of … increasingly important in terms of number and volume of mergers and acquisitions’ operations. Our research work consists in … providing descriptive complementary insights to previous research, by analyzing the characteristics of mergers and acquisitions …

The mergers between AT&T and Cingular, Sprint and Nextel, and Verizon and Alltel telecommunication companies have … intense competition between Verizon Wireless and Cingular/AT&T. The overall question to this thesis is: Which of these … companies completed the ideal merger? The thesis analyzes the mergers in chronological order of the merger deals starting from …

dynamics, the current dissertation analyses the interactions between innovation and competition. The scope of this work can be … activity. Regarding the impact of competition on innovation, an empirical analysis reveals that ICT- driven innovations … Verständnis dieser Dynamik, analysiert diese Dissertation die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Innovation und Wettbewerb. Die Arbeit …

deliver innovation in formats. Globally, the television industry is entering into the post-broadcasting era where audiences … China, as it both challenges old statist models and presents new opportunities for content innovation. This thesis discusses … marketplace and how it plays an important role in improving innovation in many aspects of the television industry. The thesis …

The fundamental building block of the economic theory of competition is that the most ideal condition of competition is … represented by perfect competition. It refers to a situation in which the market is characterized by the presence of a large … number of sellers selling homogenous products. Economists held the view that perfect competition was the best possible market …

Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …

account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation … more likely to display the inverted U relationship between competition and innovation. …

relationship between competition and innovation, Aghion, Dewatripont and Rey (1999) showed that this could be reversed if agency …Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective … considerations were introduced. In their model competition acts as an incentive mechanism to reduce managerial slack, which produces …