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A firm's strategy typically is defined in terms of its position in the industry or landscape that operates in and the competitive advantage of the firm on that landscape. This competitive advantage, in turn, derives from a combination of assets (what the firm owns) and capabilities (how the firm...
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In this paper, I investigate the effect of the takeover of a Slovak petroleum firm on its price setting mechanism. In … and controlled by managers, only negative changes in input prices were reflected in the output price. After the takeover … before takeover the composite input costs and competitors’ prices have very little (or no) impact on fuel price. After …
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In this paper, I investigate the effect of the takeover of a Slovak petroleum firm on its price setting mechanism. In … and controlled by managers, only negative changes in input prices were reflected in the output price. After the takeover … before takeover the composite input costs and competitors' prices have very little (or no) impact on fuel price. After …
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Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...
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A common claim in the nonrenewable resource literature is that improvements in technology may largely offset the effects of increasing scarcity over time. This study provides perhaps the first empirical evidence on this issue by analyzing the determinants of the average finding cost for...
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The US set an oil export ban after the Iranian crisis in the 1970s due to energy security issues. Since US oil production has been continuously diminishing, there had not been many issues until recently. However, after the hydraulic fracturing technology was introduced to development of shale in...
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