This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...

We analyze the effect of supermarket entry on the exit of small stores in the food retailing sector in Montevideo between 1998 and 2007. By using detailed geographical information about supermarkets and smaller stores we are able to identify the link between entrants and the exit of nearby small...

This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...

This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...

Traditional corporate social capital formulations have been based on a firm’s positioning within its network of market place alliances. This paper extends this model by incorporating additional firm status attributes into an integrated model for corporate social capital. An empirical study of...

A number of theories postulate the influence of industry factors and various forms of organizational capital on the strategies and performance of small firms. This study is an empirical test of such assertion by examining how industry and firm-related factors as well as managerial attributes...

Objective: The objective of this article is to identify strategies that can help small firms alleviate the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis. We test six strategies (namely, entrepreneurial, market penetration, market development, product development, diversification, and cooperation). In...

Employing a unique dataset that covers almost 6000 informal enterprises from six West African urban centers, this paper examines the backward and forward linkages of these enterprises to the formal sector. We first provide a descriptive analysis of the existing formal-informal linkages. It turns...

In this paper we develop a measure of competition based on management's disclosures in their 10-K filing and find that firms' rates of diminishing marginal returns on new and existing investment vary significantly with our measure. We show that these firm-level disclosures are related to...

I find that the performance of Australian mutual funds in recessions and non-recessions, that is the performance of the funds conditional on the state of the economy, is an important determinant of the fees that they charge. The unconditional performance is a weighted average of the conditional...