The behavior of the members of an organization is determined, not only by the objective situation facing them, but also by their attitudes. Thus, the objective of aligning collective goals and individual behavior translates into a problem of alignment of attitudes. An important dimension of the...

We study the investment of a telecommunications incumbent in quality and in cost reduction when an entrant can use its network through unbundling of the local loop. We ?nd that unbundling may lower incentives for quality improvements, but raises incentives for cost reduction. Therefore, it is...

We consider Salim Rashids asymptotic version of David Schmeidlers theorem on the purification of Nash equilibria. We show that, in contrast to what is stated, players payoff functions have to be selected from an equicontinuous family in order for Rashids theorem to hold. That is, a bound on the...

O fenómeno da globalização económica e financeira iniciou-se no século XV com a era dos descobrimentos portugueses, que conduziram à afirmação progressiva da hegemonia da Europa Ocidental e Atlântica, em geral, e de Portugal, em particular, sobre o resto do mundo neste período. Desde...

This paper argues that in face of the changes occurring in the organizational world, management education should consider the need to rethink some of its premises and adapt to the new times. The need to complicate management learning due to increased complication in competitive landscapes, is...

In this article the authors develop a new measurement scale (the RELQUAL scale) to assess the degree of relationship quality between the exporting firm and the importer. Relationship quality is presented as a high order concept. Findings reveal that a better quality of the relationship results...

With the exception of the work of Lages and colleagues, the international marketing literature has been examining performance exclusively as a dependent variable. This exploratory study builds on this emerging body of literature to discuss the main outcomes of performance, as it is expressed...

European Union Antitrust Laws have been successfully applied to anti-competitive behaviour, which can take place abroad, but have an effect within the EU. Under Antitrust Laws, not only abuse of dominant position practices but also mergers that restrain competition are regarded as illegal and...

This study presents a four-dimensional multi-item scale for assessing the degree of marketing mix adaptation to the foreign market (the MIXADAPT scale). The scale shows evidence of reliability as well as convergent, discriminant and nomological validity in samples of Portuguese and British...

Globalization and localization seem to be opposite concepts – a thesis and its antithesis. Nonetheless, managers seem to be able to handle the paradox posed by these two contradicting tensions by enacting, via action, a synthesis that allows for the co-presence of a high level of global...