Theoretical Background -- Convergence-Divergence within Strategic Groups -- From Crisis to Opportunitiy: How Market Shocks Impact Interfirm Rivalry.-Performance Effects of Corporate Diverstiture Programs

This paper reviews and summarises the results of selected empirical studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Performance gaps arise in such fields as productivity, profitability, wages, skills, factor intensity and growth. Of central interest...

The aim of the analysis is to investigate the impact of inward FDI on Italian manufacturing and services firm survival. The paper is organized in two steps. First, we carry out theoretically and empirically the analysis of firm survival distinguishing between foreign multinationals, domestic...

Basierend auf Erkenntnissen aus der Organisations- und Sicherheitskulturforschung sowie Erkenntnissen aus der Versicherungswissenschaft und Risikomanagementforschung wird der Begriff Risikokultur konzeptualisiert. Angesichts der in der Praxis häufig erhobenen Forderung nach einer gesunden oder...

The study aim to understand the impact of HRD practices towards the organiza-tional climate in Life Insurance Sector. The data collected by using both methods primary & secondary data, the study conducted in the Chennai city & circulated 400 questionnaires distribution, 371 filled questionnaires...