Fast changing technology, increased competition and dynamics in consumer usages in telecommunication services has sidelined the company's focus of excellence in services shifting their strategy from customer to technology. This has further led to increased non-standardized services in...

From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...

"Voluntary programs have become widespread tools for governments and non-governmental actors looking to shape industry behavior. Voluntary programs can be conceptualized as club goods that provide non-rival but potentially excludable benefits to members. For firms, the value of joining an...

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample of merged firms over a ten-year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual, firm-level, year-by-year analyses...