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Longevity in services: the case of the Dutch warehousing companies 1600-2000

van Driel, van Driel, H.; Volberda, Volberda, H.W.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

In this paper, we explore the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used, structure, culture, and financial policy. We made an extensive case-study of the Dutch storage...

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Lessons About Franchise Risk From Yum Brands and Schlotzsky’s

Emerson, Robert W. - 2020

This Article presents YUM! Brands, Inc. disclosure information and presents valuable insight into the risks of starting a business that shares intellectual property with another party. YUM! is the parent of entities such as KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell with locations around the world. YUM! is...

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The Death of the Firm

Carbone, June - 2017

fiction designed to serve the interests of the people behind it, signals the “death of the firm” as a unit of legal analysis … commercial, but public ends. The Hobby Lobby reference to the firm as a fiction is a product of a decades-long shift in the …-like operations of the technological age. As “the firm,” that is, the corporate form used to structure most business organizations …

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Service Quality and Institutional Change : Keeping Score in Public Sector Reform

McKoy, Derrick V. - 2011

This article argues that it is possible to distinguish between the utility of different institutional structures by comparing the quality service that each typed delivers. As the executive agencies of the new public management are considered to be different from the traditional public sector...

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Strategic Research Planning in a Law School Setting

Philipps, Lisa - 2011

Strategic planning processes are by now familiar in many Universities and law faculties. Most often these operate at the highest level of generality and are aimed at articulating an institution’s overall strengths, direction and priorities for growth or improvement. The tools of strategic...

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An Analyses of the Institution of the Catholic Church from the Perspective of New Institutional Economics and as a 'Carrier of History' (David, 1994) in the Handling and Reporting...

Buckley, Elaine - 2014

This paper analyses the institution of the Catholic Church from the perspective of new institutional economics and as a “carrier of history” (David, 1994). This paper surveys the relevant body of literature and applies it directly to the problem of the lack of reporting of and the improper...

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Bargaining Success of Chinese Factories

O'Brien, Kevin J. - 2008

Based on interviews and a questionnaire administered to 25 factory directors in November 1988, this study investigates factors that determine the bargaining power of large and medium-sized Chinese factories. It shows that directors of larger, higher-ranking factories are more successful in...

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How Stakes in Restructuring Put Restructuring at Stake

Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 1998

shares in a firm that suffers from inefficiency do have a stakeholder interest in the same inefficiency. Additionally, we … introduce a dependence of agent (and hence firm) decisions on the entire privatization program: for one type of share …

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The Puzzling Lack of Cooperatives

Molk, Peter - 2014

Some of the most recognizable companies, including Land O’Lakes, REI, the Associated Press, Ace Hardware, and State Farm Insurance, are organized as cooperatives – firms owned by their suppliers, workers, or customers. Yet aside from isolated areas of the economy, cooperatives constitute...

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Civic Capital and the Size Distribution of Plants : Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium

Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2012

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

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