The Center for Market Advantage presents the Rutgers Business School Payment Practices Index for the U.S. retail industry. The Payment Practices Index surveys vendors that provide goods and services to U.S. retailers and reflects the experience that these vendors have with the payment practices...

Although research on the value of membership of Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) is increasing, there remain few theoretical and empirical advances in this area. Addressing this gap, this book offers a fresh perspective, exploring how NPOs' survival is linked to the promotion, recruitment and...

Law plays a key role in determining the level of entrepreneurial action in society. Legal rules seek to define property rights, facilitate private ordering, and impose liability for legal wrongs, thereby attempting to establish conditions under which individuals may act. These rules also channel...

Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mergers and Merger Policy in the United States: An Overview -- 3 Evaluating Merger Outcomes -- 4 Guide to Merger Analysis Using Difference in Differences -- 5 Merger Retrospectives: Two Studies -- 6 Mergers and Product Prices -- 7 Merger Policy and...