Junge Technologieunternehmen kooperieren mit Wettbewerbern, um Zugang zu Informationen, Ressourcen, Märkten und Technologien (Gulati et al., 2000) zu erlangen und komplementäre Ressourcen zu internalisieren (Hamel, 1991). Sie nutzen die spezifischen Synergien ähnlicher Wissensbasen und...

Accessing and exploiting organizational resources plays an integral role in not only a firm’s propensity to achieve a competitive advantage, but also its mere survival in a competitive environment (Ulrich & Barney, 1984). One of the most common means of resource acquisition for both large...

Evidence suggests that public research universities, especially land grant institutions, can be instrumental in supporting a new kind of economic vitality. The university can serve as a ready pipeline for discovering, and then commercializing, new knowledge for industries. Meanwhile, companies...

With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...

This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...

Este documento de trabajo supone una contribución a la literatura reciente que documenta el aumento secular de los márgenes ponderados por las ventas en varios países. En Estados Unidos, este fenómeno ha sido impulsado por empresas grandes y productivas. Utilizando los datos detallados de la...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the cost of electricity for Spanish firms. This cost is compared with other expenditure by Spanish industrial firms on goods and services and with their turnover, distinguishing by firm size and sector. Generally, in the industrial sector, the ratio...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2033

Utilizando datos de panel, este trabajo muestra que una mejor regulación en el sector servicios reduce el precio de los consumos intermedios que soportan las empresas de manufacturas, especialmente aquellas de mayor tamaño. El beneficio de un marco regulatorio que fomenta la competencia en el...

This study aims to determine the influence of return on assets (ROA), debt to asset ratio (DAR), firm size (SIZE), the public shareholding (KSP) on the disclosure of corporate social responsibility, either simultaneously or partially on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange....