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Cluster activities in different institutional environments. Case studies of ICT-Clusters from Austria, Germany, Ukraine and Serbia
Konstantynova, Anastasiia; Lehmann, Tine - 2016
In recent decades industrial clusters and agglomerations were recognized as drivers of regional and often national … mapping, establishment of institutions (labelled as cluster initiative/ association) in respective clusters through public … influenced by different sets of institutional framework conditions. Information and communication technologies (ICT) clusters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790077
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The Role of Wholesalers in International Distribution: Transaction Cost Effects
Todorova, Tamara; Iliev, Ivan - 1999
The paper focuses on the role of wholesaling in the establishment of international distribution channels with respect to the transaction costs associated with the sale of goods on the international market. The first part of the paper is devoted to the peculiarities and conditions of the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011643083
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Optimal Allocation of Decision-Making Authority and the Provision of Incentives under Uncertainty
Schöttner, Anja; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2015
Incentives for managers are often provided by offering them performance-based compensation schemes. The efficiency of such monetary compensations, however, depends on several factors, among them the quality of the employed performance measures, the information available for contracting purposes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301796
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Female entrepreneurship and SMEs: Changes in access to credit and business results?
Garcia-Tabuenca, Antonio; Pablo-Martí, Federico; … - 2015
The research on women entrepreneurship has mainly studied these topics: i) the characteristics and motivations (Brush and Hisrich, 1991; Pablo-Martí et al., 2014), ii) the strategic choice (Verheul et al., 2008), iii) the role of leadership (Schwartz, 1976; Justo et al. 2006)), iv) the entry barriers...
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Self-Serving Behavior in Price-Quality Competition
Halbheer, Daniel; Bertini, Marco; Koenigsberg, Oded - 2013
Managers like to think well of themselves, and of the firms that employ them. However, positive illusions can bias a manager's evaluation of market outcomes, self-servingly crediting success on the superior quality of one's own product but blaming failure on the aggressive price of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329368
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Business Spending on Research and Development and its Relationship to Invention and Innovation
Hunady, Jan; Pisar, Peter - 2020
The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen as the main precondition of successful innovation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288797
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Implications of Accounting and Tax Treatment of Cryptocurrencies
Martinčević, Ivana; Sesar, Vesna; Buntak, Krešimir - 2021
The digital revolution is changing everyday business and creating new technologies and tools that allow companies flexibility and simplicity in doing business and increase business performance. The digital age creates new concepts that also affect accounting processing, which presents new...
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A Case Study of Investor R&D Evaluation using Game Theory
Georgiou, Andreas - 2022
This paper aims to identify an optimal investment strategy in cases of high-intensity R&D private micro entities. A game theory matrix is constructed using publicly available empirical data extracted from the financial statements of an R&D-intensive private micro-entity. The game theory matrix...
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On the Principles of Resource Consumption Optimization on Microeconomic Level
Stefea, Petru; Pelin, Andrei - 2015
In a business environment defined by overproduction, ever increasing competitive pressures, fast technological dynamics, there remain few reliable instruments to be used by managers in order to develop and maintain competitive advantages. Traditionally, manufacturing cost reduction represents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920284
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Innovative Approaches in Tourism Business Development
Stanovčić, Tatjana; Perović, Đurđica; Peković, Sanja - 2015
In order to provide superior experience for tourists, innovative approaches in tourism business and product development are needed. The objective of this paper is to highlight the key challenges in creation of innovative tourism business opportunities, and provide wider understanding of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920305