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Audiovisual Services Sector: Can the Philippines Follow "Bollywood?"
Lantin, Angelina M.; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2005
The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the importance of the sector in the economy and employment, its strengths and weaknesses, regulations that affect it, and the competitive forces that...
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Location decisions in a changing labour market environment
Frank, Björn - 2003
We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
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Using Dynamic Programming Decomposition for Revenue Management with Opaque Products
Gönsch, Jochen; Steinhardt, Claudius - In: BuR - Business Research 6 (2013) 1, pp. 94-115
Opaque products enable service providers to hide specific characteristics of their service fulfillment from the customer until after purchase. Prominent examples include internet-based service providers selling airline tickets without defining details, such as departure time or operating...
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2011
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
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Multiproduct competition, learning by doing and price-cost margins over the product life cycle: Evidence from the DRAM industry
Siebert, Ralph - 1999
Halbleiterindustrie. Zusätzlich berücksichtigen wir explizit die Dynamik über den Produktlebenszyklus. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, daß diese … zeigen, daß (ii) Lerneffekte, Skalenerträge und Spillovereffekte über den Produktlebenszyklus variieren. Lerneffekte sind am … Ende des Produktlebenszyklus größer, wenn neue Produkttechnologien entwickelt werden. Skalenerträge sind zunehmend und …
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Turbulence in high growth and declining industries
Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat - 2007
We examine turbulence over the product life cycle using the lowest possible level of industry aggregation, allowing for the use of panel data to study the evolution of single product markets. We find that replacement of exiting firms by subsequent entry plays a primary role in generating...
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Product Pricing when Demand Follows a Rule of Thumb
Matzke, Christina; Wirth, Benedikt - 2009
We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
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The Experience Curve and the Market Size of Competitive Consumer Durable Markets
2011
An evolutionary model of the product life cycle is applied to derive the experience curve and the market size of (expensive) durable goods. The experience (learning) curve suggests that the real costs per unit decrease with an increasing cumulative output (Henderson's law). Based on the idea...
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310987
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On the Structural Dimension of Competitive Strategy
Kaniovski, Serguei; Peneder, Michael - 2001
This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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