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ROBERTS D. and THOMSON K. J. (2003) Sources of structural change in peripheral rural areas: the case of the Western Isles, 1988/89 to 1997 , Reg. Studies 37 , 61-70. The paper considers the sources of structural change in peripheral rural areas, arguing that a greater understanding of sources of...
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spatial differences in high technology employment, R&D activity, involvement in overseas markets and civilian diversification … la technologie, la R et D, les relations commerciales exterieures et la diversification civile. Bien qu'on puisse faire … Hochtechnologie, in Forschung und Entwicklung, in Beteiligung am Uberseemarkt und Diversifikation fur Zivilzwecke gewidmet. Die Studie …
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vieler Agrarmärkte existieren nur wenige empirische Arbeiten zum Zusammenhang zwischen Diversifikation und dem Erfolg … Diversifikation in verwandte und unverwandte Produktbereiche auf das Wachstum (als ein Erfolgsmaß) von Unternehmen untersucht und … Diversifikation in verwandte Produktbereiche ein höheres Wachstum aufweisen, während die Diversifikation in nicht …
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of multi-business portfolios. Although there is lots of work on diversification and mergers and acquisitions, corporate … contempt - the reasonable suspicion of economic inferiority of firm diversification and the possible inappropriateness of CPM …
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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contract structures governing asset ownership. Consistent with the theory, diversification is associated with falling taxi …This paper proposes that diversification taxes firms’ existing organizational systems by altering routines, formal … contract structures and strategies. I test the proposition that organizational adjustment costs associated with diversification …
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diversification is compared to entry by plant birth. The paper then investigates post-merger success by examining market share …, productivity, and profitability changes. When the extent to which acquired plants are subsequently divested is used to evaluate … merger productivity and profitability changes are examined, they are compared to what is happening to other plants in the …
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In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analysis of diversification issues for Russian economy. Assessing … diversification for nine different variables, we show that choice of a variable affects the result much, and that, unlike a popular … defragmentation of economic growth, we account for labor productivity and labor availability separately, and show that these …
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