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Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy: An Integrative Approach

Dhliwayo, Shepherd - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 23 (2014) 1, pp. 115-135

The two fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship have been viewed as inseparable twins and the relationship … has been coined strategic entrepreneurship by a number of scholars. Though the integrative studies of the two areas … conceptual article which aims to show how business strategy can be integrated with entrepreneurship to enhance firm …

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An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action

Cavarretta, Fabrice; Furr, Nathan - ESSEC Business School - 2014

Boundedly rational managerial actors struggling to process information often use a limited set of “theories of action,” or simple rules. However, simple rules may have a hierarchical structure, with some simple rules guiding others. Assuming the existence of such “keystone rules,” we...

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Entrepreneurial Activity, Banking and Finance, Historical Aspects and Theoretical Suggestions

Dahmén, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Porter and Weihrich: Two Faces of a Strategic Matrix for Developing the Portuguese Molds Industry

Leitão, João; Deodato, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005

The Portuguese producers of Molds are in its majority of small or medium dimension, competing in highly competitive international markets and using processes, which incorporate new technologies. The present study aims to identify the strategic quadrants for developing the Portuguese Molds...

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Déterminants du recours au travail atypique : Une étude des travailleurs à statut précaire dans les organisations québécoises

Bielman, Patricia; Chênevert, Denis; Simard, Gilles; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence the use of contingent wokers. More than 250 Canadian organizations participed to the survey. Three class of determinants have been tested: environmental factors, work-force costs factors, and organizational flexibility factors....

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The Impact of E-Commerce Strategies on Firm Value: Lessons from Amazon.com and its Early Competitors

Filson, Darren - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2002

Which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this paper estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW,...

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Testing the Theory: Vertical Strategic Interaction and Demand Functional Form

Cotterill, Ronald W.; Putsis Jr., William P. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 1998

Formulating theoretical models inevitably requires various simplifications that assist in making analysis tractable and that facilitate deriving closed form solutions. While the strategic insights gained from theoretical models of market phenomena are often quite valuable, testing the...

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Strategic Positioning of Alliances

Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 1, pp. 135-149

In this paper we use a simple linear demand structure to analyze firms' and alliances' strategic positioning with regard to cost reduction and product differentiation. In particular, we compare investment decisions under competition and in alliances and analyze comparative static properties...

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Revealed comparative advantage and competitiveness in services: A study with special emphasis on developing countries

Seyoum, Belay - In: Journal of Economic Studies 34 (2007) November, pp. 376-388

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the competitiveness of selected services: business, financial, transport and travel services in developing countries in relation to that of the rest of the world based on three indices of revealed comparative advantage....

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Market power, competition policy and developing economies: Divergent conditions within African and Caribbean economies

Smith-Hillman, A. Vindelyn - In: Journal of Economic Studies 34 (2007) May, pp. 120-135

Purpose – This paper aims to measure the influence of institutional capacity and population differences between Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean economies, on the efficacy of competition policy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses multiple regression analysis to evaluate the...

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