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Firm factors that influence internationalisation and subsequent financial performance of fashion retailers

Childs, Michelle L.; Jin, Byoungho - In: Journal of Service Theory and Practice 25 (2015) 1, pp. 95-114

Purpose – Grounded in the Uppsala model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate specific firm factors of fashion service retailers, which include: product category offering, firm experience (limited vs extensive) and firm size (small vs large) and examines how variations in these firm...

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Strategic fit between business strategies in the post-acquisition period and acquisition performance

Lahovnik, Matej - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 16 (2011) 4, pp. 358-370

The overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that, from the acquirer’s perspective, acquisitions are mostly at best “break-even” situations and at worst failures. Our study seeks to contribute to this pool of knowledge by analysing the performance of horizontal acquisitions. We examined...

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Mixing Oil with Water : Framing and Theorizing in Management Research Informed by Design Science

Romme, A. Georges L.; Dimov, Dimo - 2021

Design science (DS) approaches have been emerging in engineering, management and other disciplines operating at the interface between design research and the natural or social sciences. Research informed by DS is challenging because it involves “mixing oil with water”, using a famous phrase...

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International marketing in an enlarged European Union: Some insights into cultural heterogeneity in Central Europe

Skinner, Heather; Kubacki, Krzysztof; Moss, Gloria; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 3, pp. 193-193

We inhabit a global village in which international marketers are encouraged to think and act with both global and local interests in mind. The enlargement of the European Union (EU) in January 2007 has created a 27 member state EU with a population of nearly half a billion. The purpose of this...

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The changing roles of the post-transitional economic elite in Poland

Jasiecki, Krzysztof - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 4, pp. 327-327

The study characterised evolution of the role of a new economic elite in Poland using the three-elite-generations metaphor: breakthrough elite, transition elite and consolidation elite. Describing this evolution in terms of the neoliberal modernisation paradigm, “elitist paradigm” and...

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How to make suger production more effective: A case of Ukraine

Goncharuk, Anatoliy G. - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 1, pp. 105-105

The article is devoted to the analysis of efficiency of sugar companies of Ukraine and the ways of its improving. The decreasing return to scale and scale inefficiency for the majority of sugar companies are determined. The main factors of sugar plants inefficiency are defined. Developed...

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Economic Elites in enlarged Europe

Bluhm, Katharina; Trappmann, Vera - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 4, pp. 282-282

The introduction to the Special Issue on economic elites in Central Eastern Europe establishes a common understanding of elite research and the development of capitalism in Central Eastern Europe as developed during the 1990s. Since then, the composition of elites has been lost sight of by...

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East German economic elites and their companies two decades after the transformation ('Wende'): Still following the patterns of the 1990s

Martens, Bernd - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 4, pp. 305-305

Surveys among entrepreneurs and managing directors of companies with 50 to 1,000 employees are used to describe features of managerial elites in East Germany. The paper looks at four dimensions: (1) the reproduction of economic elites during the transformation period and its current...

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In focus, Hungarian and Central Eastern European characteristics of hunman resource management – An international comparative survey

Karoliny, Zsuzsa; Farkas, Ferenc; Poór, József - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 1, pp. 9-9

The HR practices of the former state-socialist countries have gone through significant changes. The analysis of the developments, built on the Cranet (2004) survey, intends to describe the similarities and differences found between 6 countries of the Central Eastern European region and the total...

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Retail internationalization and its impact on the Russian agri - food business

Hanf, Jon Henrich; Belaya, Vera - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 3, pp. 239-239

The internationalization process of the retailing sector is still in its turbulent starting phase. The present process … of retail internationalization has created new trends in the agri-food sector such as global sourcing and retail branding … internationalization process of the retail business,and then we elaborate on the structural changes. Second, we apply this knowledge to the …

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