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Increasing environmental performance in a context of low governmental enforcement : evidence from China
Haddad, Mary Alice - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 24 (2015) 1, pp. 3-25
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Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis
DeHoratius, Nicole; Raman, Ananth - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 4, pp. 627-641
and retail stores. Examining nearly 370,000 inventory records from 37 stores of one retailer, we find 65% to be inaccurate …
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Supply Chain Basics: The Dynamics of Change in the U.S. Food Marketing Environment
Tropp, Debra; Ragland, Edward; Barham, James - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
The growing retail desire for exclusive and specialized food products offers new marketing opportunities for small and … retail landscape and identifies some of the characteristics associated with successful food retailing. It is designed to help … their unique products. This publication addresses two major trends changing retail food marketing—a move toward …
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The State of Sustainable Coffee: A Study of Twelve Major Markets
Giovannucci, Daniele; Koekoek, Freek Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The State of Sustainable Coffee provides the first comprehensive overview of the market conditions facing, organic, fair trade and shade grown or eco-friendly coffees (termed 'sustainable' coffees). It outlines the volumes, trends, distribution channels, major players, and price premiums in 12...
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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and International Retail Restructuring
Baines, Joseph - In: Handbook of the International Political Economy of …, (pp. 149-166). 2015
This chapter draws on, and develops, some aspects of the capital as power framework so as to provide the first clear quantitative explication of the company’s power trajectory to date. After rapid growth in the first four decades of its existence, the power of Wal-Mart appears to be...
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Aggregate fluctuations in adaptive production networks
König, Michael D. - 2016
We study production networks where firms' products can be described by a set of input and output characteristics, and links are formed only if the output characteristics of a seller match the input characteristics of a customer. We introduce a fully endogenous network formation model with...
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Shattering the Myth of Costless Price Changes
Bergen, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel; … - In: European Management Journal 21 (2003) 6, pp. 663-669
Despite its centrality to the topic, very little attention has been paid to the topic of price changes. Indeed, for the most part, organisations operate under the myth of costless price changes. This article broadens the definition of the costs of changing price and then presents strategic...
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Ghana's economic and agricultural transformation: Past performance and future prospects
Diao, Xinshen (contributor); Hazell, Peter B. R. (contributor) - 2019
Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140598
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Shock propagation and banking structure
Giannetti, Mariassunta; Saidi, Farzad - 2017
We conjecture that lenders' decisions to provide liquidity are affected by the extent to which they internalize negative spillovers. We show that lenders with a large share of loans outstanding in an industry provide liquidity to industries in distress when spillovers are expected to be strong,...
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