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Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa. This paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion of supermarkets and the impact this has had on...
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The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship "culture-strategy …, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of "culture-strategy" relation are defined as a starting point of the analysis. The … way a contemporary notion of the nature of "culture-strategy" relationship for the entities from the world of business is …
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combined with narratives can be applied to problems of strategy in large technical systems. I first argue that the salient …
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determined by the organization's configuration and then, by the type of strategy for entering the international market. The paper … strategy or the strategy for entering a foreign market. The research sample consists of 120 export-oriented companies from … environment, power, age, size, business strategy, and technical system. The main research about organizational structures was …
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, empirical evidence on the link between corporate governance and firm performance almost exclusively refers to the market … significantly negatively. However, this effect depends intricately on stock market exposure, the location of control rights, and the …
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Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...
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Banks continue to dier in many ways, for instance with respect to business models,growth strategies, or nancial health. Neglecting these dierences confuses ine-ciency with heterogeneity while sub-sample estimation prohibits eciency comparisonsacross dierent samples. We use a latent class...
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Information management is a core process in banking, in particular when lending to small, opaquefirms. But while a more intensive use of information technology (IT) can enhance informationmanagement, it is also costly. Merely increasing IT expenditure may thus not be a panacea tooptimize...
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In this paper, we propose an example of successive oligopolies where the downstream firmsshare the same decreasing returns technology of the Cobb-Douglas type. We stress thedifferences between the conclusions obtained under this assumption and those resultingfrom the traditional example...
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