In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by...

This paper investigates the market structure of the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry over the period 1984–2007 at the three-digit SIC level. Based on the Hall-Roeger approach (1995), three models are used to investigate the competitive conditions in the industry. The first model...

This paper has the specific objective of determining main factors of capacity utilization in the food and beverage manufacturing industry which are likely to be positively affected by fiscal incentives. Data used are from the manufacturing industry comprehensive survey carried out by the...

This work examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and dynamic productivity change of each input employed and investment undertaken in the United States food and beverage manufacturing industry. We compute input- and investment-specific dynamic Luenberger...

We offer the first direct evidence of an implicit contract in a goods market. The evidence comes from the market for Coca-Cola. We demonstrate that the Coca-Cola Company left a written evidence of its implicit contract with its consumers — a very explicit form of an implicit contract. The...

We offer the first direct evidence of an implicit contract in a goods market. The evidence we offer comes from the market for Coca-Cola. We demonstrate that the Coca-Cola Company left a substantial amount of written evidence of its implicit contract with its consumers—a very explicit form of...