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importance of the US manufacturing sector and also the USA as a melting pot for generations of immigrants who then became … USA used to be the world leader in manufacturing and also had a huge domestic market to sell to. Times have changed … in the USA and how these can be improved through the medium of business education in an international context.  …
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Purpose This study aims to empirically investigate the potential impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on US textile and apparel manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model based on the latest...
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Purpose – This paper aims to present a critical analysis of special safeguards (SSGs) and a simulation of their effects on Brazilian sugar exports to countries such as the US and the European Union (EU) bloc. Design/methodology/approach – The first stage involved the identification of tariff...
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How efficient are firms at utilizing their technological knowledge stocks? In this paper we focus on a firm's breadth and depth of technological knowledge and investigate their differential effects on two performance measures: return on capital and sales growth. Using a sample of 29...
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The resource‐based view of the firm maintains that firms achieve a sustainable comparative advantage and earn superior profits by owning or controlling tangible as well as intangible strategic assets. The stakeholder view recommends that a better measure of financial performance than...
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capability required for survival. In the second phase, we test these hypothesized estimations on the USA Brewing population …
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Purpose Union membership has declined in many countries reducing union capacity to bargain and contribute to economic equality. This paper aims to explore a more hopeful case in an Australian state, where the dramatic anti-union strategies of conservative governments have been reversed by Labor...
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the purposive strategy behind the growth of cult wines in Napa California since the 1980s. By leveraging the growing wine reputation of the region, a small number of new owners used extensive financial resources from other ventures to make a finely crafted,...
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leadership and differentiation with sustainable practices of wineries from the USA, Italy and Spain. Design … commitment to sustainable practices. Top perceived benefits for respondents from the USA and Italy are focused on cost reduction …
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Purpose This paper aims to classify and investigate customer attitudes toward luxury wine brands in the USA (a … a product category are measured. Data for the USA sample were collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, whereas …
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