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characterising many industries has undergone profound change. It is suggested that rivalry is not necessarily enacted by individual … rivalry in intraindustry environments. Derived in large from the social sciences, network theory allows for the micro and … has yet to empirically investigate the relationship between strategic networks and rivalry. The limited research that has …
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challenger firms. Specifically,we exploreperceptions of market leaders and challengerstowards competition. Second, we try to …
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The historical development of the system is shown from the beginning unto 2001. Several picked important problems are discussed ( i.e. small stages - character and importance of the directors and their influence on the demand ) and tested ba statistical methods. The development of the subsidies...
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within an institutional framework that defines the parameters of competition. A CPR problem is defined as a pure collective …
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"There is a relatively small but growing literature in economics that examines conflictive activities using a framework in which agents allocate their resource endowments between wealth production and appropriation. To date, studies in this literature have employed a similar one period game...
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Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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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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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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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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