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VIEW AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVENESS UPON SUCCESSION IN FAMILY-OWNED SMEs

GRUNDSTRÖM, CHRISTINA; ÖBERG, CHRISTINA; Rönnbäck, … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 15 (2011) 03, pp. 617-640

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how the successors of family-owned manufacturing SMEs view and manage innovativeness. Research into company takeovers mainly focuses on large companies and little is known about innovativeness in research on family-owned businesses, often...

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R&D investment as a signal in corporate takeovers

Socorro, M. Pilar - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la ULPGC - 2004

Critics of takeovers usually argue that takeover threats may reduce target firms' R&D intensity. However, we find that … under takeover threats, target firms may nevertheless increase R&D investment in order to signal their compatibility with … the kind of competition they may face and force them to accept lower takeover offers. …

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Skiba points in free end-time problems

Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Feichtinger, Gustav; Grass, Dieter; … - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 51 (2015) C, pp. 404-419

Since the end of the seventies Skiba points have been studied in infinite time optimal control problems with multiple steady states. At such a Skiba point the decision maker is indifferent between choosing trajectories that approach different steady states. This paper extends this theory towards...

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The Scope of Auctions in the Presence of Downstream Interactions and Information Externalities

Koska, Onur A.; Onur, Ilke; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

We scrutinize the scope of auctions in the presence of downstream interactions and information externalities by using the topical example of a firm acquisition. We show that no mechanism exists that allows an investor to acquire a low-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction...

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Review, rewriting and impact of Indian takeover code

Srinivasa Reddy, K.; Nangia, V.K.; Agarawal, Rajat - In: International Journal of Law and Management 53 (2011) 4, pp. 241-251

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literature and statistical data on the Indian takeover code … cum open offers market and break up the historical changes in takeover code into various phases for better understanding … houses and academia. Design/methodology/approach – The present study describes literature summary on takeover code and …

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