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competition, based on firm-level panel data for the period 1996-2008. In a dynamic setting of the empirical model it turns out … that persistence is strongly related to market competition (measured by the number of principal competitors). Persistence … coordination between competition policy and innovation promotion policy, since the former basically aims at larger markets with …
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enforcer of competition laws and policies that apply only locally, and gladly agrees to the international commitments of free … prevent competition from international economic rivals by hindering their access to the South African market. The importance …, and it will try to find a way to reconcile competition and anti-dumping in this particular case with the final aim to use …
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We investigate the effects of competition on managerial incentives and effort in a laboratory experiment. Each owner …
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The success stories from past years of many museums in the world have shown the need for a change in terms of management vision of this type of cultural organization, by addressing elements outside the organization as a driver for competitiveness. Thus, the opportunities generated by the...
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Port competition is an important topic in transport economics. This is due not only to the large volumes of goods … employment and investment. Strikingly, the existing literature on the subject tends to regard ports as rather homogeneous … methodology for analyzing relationships between port operators. Moreover, competition unfolds not only between ports, but also …
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Recent studies show that cash holdings cannot be considered a mere byproduct of corporate financial decision making but is an integral part of the explicit or implicit risk management policies of firms. This paper first gives an overview of the corporate finance literature from the past few...
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the effects of different pay schemes (competition, fixed pay and piece rate) on counterproductive behaviour. On average … significantly higher under competition than under the two other pay schemes. …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...
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This study looked at seven attitudinal and three personality variable correlates of three measures of pace of life. Pace of life was operationalised as three distinct measures; walking pace, postal service speed, and clock accuracy. Correlational and multiple regression analyses revealed that...
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