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Developing new products for emerging markets: a competency based approach

Seyler, Donna; Kang, Kiat Chyai; Place, Matthew - 2009

Emerging markets as represented by BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries signify an enormous growth opportunity and a "must win" market for MNCs (multinational companies). It is estimated that by 2013, the middle class in BRIC countries will be larger than the population of Western...

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Understanding Market potential for biodiesel in Spain: A Pilot study based on consumer preferences

Gracia, Azucena; Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Perez y Perez, Luis - 2009

biodiesel is still low compared to other EU countries. The aim of the paper is to analyze consumers’ preferences for biodiesel …

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

W e develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...

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Financial globalization and the shifting sands of contemporary financial markets

Das, Dilip K - 2010

The objective of this article is to examine the evolution of the global financial markets during the post-World War …

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Estimating Phenotypic Correlations: Correcting for Bias Due to Intraindividual Variability

Adolph, Stephen C.; Hardin, J. S. - 2006

1 Correlations between phenotypic traits are important in a number of contexts in physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, and behaviour. Correlations can reflect functional connections or trade-offs among performance traits (e.g. bite force, jumping distance) and can reveal causal...

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Reading the Recent Monetary History of the United States, 1959-2007

Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. - 2010

In this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. They use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary...

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Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems

Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010

Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

Existing literature ignores adaptation responses to external effects which, in turn, affect the design of appropriate …. Results show that not taking adaptation responses to environmental damage into account can seriously mislead analyzes of the … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …

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Implementing Vanilla ERP Systems: Factors to Consider in Strategy, Business Alignment, and Customization

Yick, Janice - 2011

strategic and cost implications, organizational adaptation to ERP functionality, deploying strategies to minimize customizations …

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Understanding knowledge management and organizational adaptation and the influencing effects of trust and industrial cluster.

Niu, Kuei-Hsien - 2008

, trust can enhance organizations' core competencies and sustain their competitive advantages through co-evolution. This may … organizational adaptation, while the independent variables were knowledge management, trust and industrial cluster. Data were … does have significant influence on organizational adaptation and both industrial cluster and trust impact on organizational …

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