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Profts Crisis : Evolving Patterns of Frm Size and Performance in Traditional U.S. Industries

Muthusamy, Senthil Kumar; Kannan, Ramadevi - 2023

With the arrival of the new millennium, many industries across the developed economies are increasingly facing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environments-often characterized as VUCA-caused by a host of disruptive factors hyper-competition, globalized value chains,...

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Volatility spillovers between the U.S. and Romanian markets : the BET-SFT-500 dynamic under political uncertainty

Aivaz, Kamer-Ainur; Mastac, Lavinia; Jula, Dorin; … - In: Risks : open access journal 13 (2025) 8, pp. 1-38

This paper analyzes the volatility relationship between the Romanian BET index and the U.S. SFT-500 index during the … the influence of the SFT-500 index on the BET index, while IIS variables capture unanticipated political and economic …-500 index on the BET index. Volatility in Romania is markedly higher and longer-lasting during domestic political episodes …

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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music

Regner, Tobias - 2010

Customers at the online music label Magnatune can pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune recommends to pay $8, and on average customers paid $8.20 (Regner and Barria, 2009). We ran an online survey and collected responses from 227...

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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

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Newspaper and internet display advertising: Co-existence or substitution?

Lindstädt, Nadine; Budzinski, Oliver - 2012

Newspapers have been experiencing declining circulation figures and diminishing advertising revenues for several years - both effects might pose a threat to the continuing existence of (print) newspapers. In an earlier paper, Lindstädt & Budzinski (2011) argued from a theoretical viewpoint that...

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Do markets love misery? Stock prices and corporate philanthropic disaster response

Muller, Alan; Kräussl, Roman - 2007

While companies have emerged as very proactive donors in the wake of recent major disasters like Hurricane Katrina, it remains unclear whether that corporate generosity generates benefits to firms themselves. The literature on strategic philanthropy suggests that such philanthropic behavior may...

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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation

Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009

Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...

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Globalization and Location Choice : An Analysis of US Multinational Firms in 1980 and 2000

Flores, Ricardo G. - 2008

In this paper we examine foreign location choices of the top 100 US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 1980 and 2000. We first ask whether there has been a change in MNC foreign location choice in this two-decade period. Second, we explore the underlying reasons of location change by focusing...

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Product Innovation as a Competitive Advantage for Emerging Multinationals : The Case of the Judge Revolver in the USA

Machado, Marcelo André - 2018

This paper aimed to evaluate the product innovation as a resource in the internationalization process of an emerging multinational (EMN), the Brazilian company Taurus in the North American market. Through the lenses of the Resource Based View (RBV), we discuss the role of product innovation, the...

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The Legal Regulation of U.S. Crowdfunding : An Organically Evolving Patchwork

Heminway, Joan MacLeod - 2017

The legal regulation of crowdfunding in the United States is neither well calibrated nor holistic. With the exception of specific securities regulation legislation, the regulation of crowdfunding under U.S. law exists as an extension of principles of pre-existing regulation to a specific new and...

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