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We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services. In addition totactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through businessmodel reconfigurations. We consider three business models: theproprietary model (where all...
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Wenn Unternehmen ihre Geschäftsprozesse auf die Erreichung strategischerWettbewerbsvorteile ausrichten wollen, dürfen sie nicht nur Kosten senken,sondern müssen die Prozesse auf die Kunden und die Unternehmenszieleausrichten. Dafür ist es notwendig, ihre Wertschöpfung zu ermitteln....
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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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To date, most theories of business models have theorized value capture assuming that appropriability regimes were exogenous and that the firm would face a unique, ideal-typical appropriability regime. This has led theory contributions to focus on governance structures to minimize transaction...
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Transportation finance has been historically dominated by assessing taxes totransportation users and taxes on the general public. Innovative financing mechanismssuch as tax increment financing, special assessment districts, and others represent valuecapture techniques that tax property owners to...
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During the last few decades, identifying and examining the characteristics of market-driven firms have been a dominant theme in strategic marketing research. It has been argued that market-driven firms are superior in their market sensing and customer linking capabilities, enabling market-driven...
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This study empirically examines the social capital that facilitates the flow of export knowledge, thereby supporting … the entrepreneurial stance of small export firms. By applying the VRIO (value, rarity, inimitability and organisation of …'s competitive advantage. This study argues that small, resource-constrained export firms in a developing economy are able to adopt …
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of e-marketing adoption strategy on export performance of … SMEs in Pakistan. The mediating effect of marketing activities on the relationship between e-marketing adoption and export … activities, after sales activities and export performance linked through eight hypotheses were tested using structural equation …
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We consider a risk averse entrepreneur who approaches a diversified venture capitalist (VC) for financing of a project with positive potential return. We develop several models that capture key features of the venture financing, including staged investment, VC oversight costs and agency...
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Insurance contracts are frequently modelled as principal–agent relationships. The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction between differential bargaining power and the efficiency of insurance contracts. The analysis is undertaken in a framework of state-contingent production, which...
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