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Small and internationalised firms competing with Chinese exporters
Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Reinstaller, Andreas - 2022
strategy. We propose a novel indicator capturing import competition that highly internationalised companies face. We examine …
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The 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in contract theory
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626725
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Outsourcing sports sponsorship activities: a multi-theoretical approach
Dietl, Helmut; Schweizer, Nicolas - 2015
applies the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to the outsourcing of sports sponsorship activities … actually deviate from these recommended outsourcing levels, and discuss ways to counteract these deviations. This is the first … paper to apply classical theoretical concepts to outsourcing sports sponsorship activities. As a conceptual paper, it hopes …
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Civic capital and service outsourcing : evidence from Italy
Bürker, Matthias; Mammi, Irene; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2018
behavior in transactions by looking at the firm-level degree of service outsourcing in Italy. Our results show that firms tend … dynamic specification which allows to disentangle state dependence of service outsourcing from firm-level heterogeneity, and …
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The core of the global corporate network
Giglio, Ricardo; Lux, Thomas - 2016
We investigate the network topology of a comprehensive data set of the world-wide population of corporate entities. In particular, we have extracted information on the boards of all companies listed in Bloomberg's archive of company profiles in October, 2015, a total of almost 100; 000 firms. We...
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Location choices of Chinese multinationals in Europe : the role of overseas communities
Karreman, Bas; Burger, Martijn J.; Oort, Frank van - 2016
Overseas Chinese communities are an important determinant in the location choice of greenfield investments made by mainland Chinese multinational enterprises across European regions. Conceptually embedded in a relational approach, this effect is shown through an empirical analysis of an...
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Import competition and the composition of firm investments
Fromenteau, Philippe; Schymik, Jan; Tscheke, Jan - 2016
We study how foreign competition affects the composition of investments inside firms. A parsimonious model predicts that firms have an incentive to shift their investments towards more short-term assets when exposed to tougher competition. Using data on expenditures of listed US companies into...
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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016
Merger value is frequently evaluated in single market contexts without considering possible gains stemming from firms' multimarket presence. This study concentrates on the question through which channels, and of which magnitude, mergers among multimarket firms create incremental value. We...
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Brand management throughout professional athletes' careers
Schweizer, Nicolas; Dietl, Helmut - 2015
contingencies determine the appropriate, i.e. revenues-optimizing, brand management strategy of an athlete at any career stage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416561
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Developing a framework to identify and systematise sources of inefficiencies in sports sponsorship from a sponsee perspective
Dietl, Helmut; Schweizer, Nicolas - 2015
This paper develops a framework for illustrating why sponsored sports entities, the "sponsees", often struggle to achieve their sponsorship-related goals to maximise sponsorship income, to satisfy their sponsors, and to create positive image or brand effects through the sponsorship. Based on a...
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