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Failure Risk and Quality Cost Management in Single versus Multiple Sourcing Decision
Yim, Andrew - 2014
The advantage of multiple sourcing to protect against supplier failures arising from undependable products due to latent defects is examined using a model with non-linear external failure costs. Prior research has focused only on supplier failures arising from unreliable supply, such as...
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Les stratégies de développement des grandes firmes de l'industrie mondiale du vin sur la longue période (1980-2005)
Coelho, A.; Rastoin, J.L. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2006
The purpose of this work is to draw a panorama of the evolution of the restructuring strategies of the transnational firms in the world wine industry across the period 1980-2005. The main forms of development of these firms - mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures - are identified based on an...
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Les opérations de restructuration des firmes agroalimentaires multinationales entre 1987 et 2003
Ayadi, N.; Rastoin, J.L.; Tozanli, S. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2006
Based on a neo-institutionalist theoretical framework and using the Agrodata databank, the present paper analyses the main drivers underlying the restructuring operations of the top 100 multinational food processing enterprises worldwide and draws the map of the world's new agri-food landscape....
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Simulation experiments of supply chain in a period of small and big disasters
Halicki, Marcin; Kwater, Tadeusz - In: Journal of economics & management 43 (2021) 1, pp. 339-356
Aim/purpose - The aim of this paper is to present a strategy that allows companies to recover from disasters, when … of the strategy in case of small and big disasters. Thanks to the proposed solution, it is possible to analyze each … wealth in the case of small disasters. The advantage of the proposed approach is that one can freely test which strategy can …
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Tax Avoidance, Uncertainty, and Firm Risk
Hutchens, Michelle - 2019
While tax avoidance strategies result in greater after-tax cash flows, they can involve uncertain future outcomes, which can impose significant costs on firms. Thus, the extent to which tax avoidance increases firm risk is unclear. This paper re-examines the relation between tax avoidance and...
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CEO Risk Preference and Investing in R&D
Abdel-Khalik, A. Rashad - 2016
This study aims at (1) developing an index to measure CEO risk tolerance using publicly available data, and (2) examining the association between this index and investment in risky projects. Using relative pay-at-risk as a proxy for risk preference (tolerance) is a new proposition and is...
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Technology transfer in the market with heterogeneous consumers
Yoshida, Shohei; Pan, Cong - 2015
The paper explains why some firms transfer their technology to competitors without direct compensation. We consider a Hotelling market where duopolists sell products with different qualities. This market consists of heterogeneous consumers, comprising two groups in terms of their valuations of...
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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution
Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007
This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...
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The Economic Optimality of Sanction Mechanisms in Interorganizational Ego Networks – A Game Theoretical Analysis –
Kudic, Muhamed; Banaszak, Marc - 2009
Even though small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) were believed not to proceed beyond exporting in their internationalization routes, we can observe new types of co-operation intensive entrepreneurial firms – so-called “micromultinational enterprises” (mMNEs) – entering the global...
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ITIL und Datenschutz: Überlegungen für eine Integration des Datenschutzes in das ITIL-Framework
Klotz, Michael; Kriegel, Jörn - 2012
Die IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) gilt heute als weltweit führender De-facto-Standard für das IT-Servicemanagement (ITSM). Obwohl der Standard mittlerweile in der in 2007 veröffentlichten dritten Version vorliegt, haben Datenschutzbelange bis heute kaum Eingang gefunden. Das Arbeitspapier...
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