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Impact of information technology investments on firm productivity in peripherals countries : the case of Portugal
Guerreiro, António; Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés - 2015
IS/IT investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of the firm, on its performance, and demand an active and motivated participation of several stakeholder groups. The shortfall of evidence concerning the productivity of IT became known as the...
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Entropie im System - die strukturelle Beschaffenheit der betrieblichen Kraftbasis
Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2020
Within firms diverse fields of action are regarding the transformation of material and immaterial resources. The dimension of choices is being determined by the basic laws of thermodynamics. The entropic relevance of action within a firm has been considered by the paper. From a social system...
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The effects of MiFID II on sell-side analysts, buy-side analysts, and firms
Fang, Bingxu; Hope, Ole-Kristian; Huang, Zhongwei; … - 2019
This paper provides early but broad empirical evidence on a major new investor protection regulation in Europe, MiFID II, which requires investment firms to unbundle investment research from other costs they charge to clients. We predict that the price separation resulting from unbundling and a...
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Erosion, time compression, and self-displacement of leaders in hypercompetitive environments
Pacheco de Almeida, Goncalo - 2017
This article examines how leader firms should respond to the erosion of competitive advantages caused by rapid imitation and innovation in hypercompetitive environments. On the one hand, shorter-lived advantages induce leaders to develop new advantages faster. On the other hand, hypercompetition...
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Auswirkungen vertikaler Kollusionsprobleme auf die vertragliche Ausgestaltung von Kreditverkäufen
Scholz, Julia - 2008
Recent studies of outlaw communities provide qualitative evidence of their existence and the organisation of the underlying innovation processes. We provide descriptive results from a large scale survey of two online outlaw communities focussing on Microsoft's XBox. In line with previous...
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Outlaw community innovations
Schulz, Celine; Wagner, Stefan - 2008
Recent studies of outlaw communities provide qualitative evidence of their existence and the organisation of the underlying innovation processes. We provide descriptive results from a large scale survey of two online outlaw communities focussing on Microsoft's XBox. In line with previous...
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An inquiry into the north-south management gap in China
Yong, Soo Keong; Sen, Partha; Cao, Jing - 2024
We identify a puzzling management practice gap in China. In the South, a one standard deviation increase in firms' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability. But such associations are muted for firms located in...
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Eine entropisch-ökonomische Analyse der "Routine"
Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2023
‘Routine action’, a form to take action, is widely accepted in the economic field, because of its resource saving effect which contributes to average cost degression. However, from an entropic point of view, each form of acting requires decision making in regard to consumption of resources...
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge … the manager has acquired and successfully diffused to the new firm? In order to answer these questions we use information … related to specific activities the manager was involved in when working for previous firms. More specifically, we use …
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A strategy perspective on the performance relevance of the CFO
Venus, Andreas; Engelen, Andreas - 2012
Research on functional members of top management teams (TMTs) has increasingly drawn interest to the strategic management field over the past few years. Studies have documented the rise of the chief financial officer (CFO) to pivotal importance and considerable power within the organization. By...
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