Services are the most important contributor to the GDP and also the most important job generator. Countries development, usually, is based on the services sector. The present paper is aiming to highlight the influence of the number of active enterprises in services on exports. The paper is based...

We show that gasoline retailer profits heavily depend on the direction of wholesale cost movements. Using a unique, firm-level, proprietary sample of 121 U.S. gasoline retailers collectively operating over 4500 stores, we find that it tends to be only in months when wholesale prices are...

Firms’ internationalization paths and their antecedents has become a major topic of recent international business (IB) literature. Indeed, a lively debate about the adequate degree of international diversification has recently emerged. To challenge the traditional temporal and spatial...

This article deals with business performance. The aim of this article is to identify performance factors, ie. factors that should have an impact on performance in long-term horizon, analyze these factors and their relationships, and based on this analysis to create a complex model of business...

Durante las últimas décadas se ha producido en Galicia, en consonancia con lo ocurrido en otros territorios, una proliferación de polígonos industriales que han multiplicado la oferta de suelo industrial de esta región. Estos polígonos se ven inmersos en una lucha competitiva por atraer el...