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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"Business Administration, General."”.
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
An increasing number of acquirers are adopting a “two-step merger” strategy by making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies …
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
An increasing number of acquirers are adopting a “two-step merger” strategy by making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies …
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Patterns of industrial structural change: Biobio region, Chile. 1974-1989.
Chile's recent experience with the liberalization of foreign trade provides a singular case study because of: the high level and many types of tariff protection before the reforms; the extraordinary effect of rapid trade policy liberalization; and the current structure that the country's economy …
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A dynamic simultaneous model of Taiwan :
Various econometric models of Taiwan have been constructed since 1964. All of these shared the same common shortcomings. Their periods of annual data were too short to maintain a satisfactory degree of freedom. Their estimators were determined by the ordinary least squares method. The models were …
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Three essays on the financing of corporations.
Three essays on the financing of corporations.
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A logic for entrepreneurial discovery.
A logic for entrepreneurial discovery.
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Structural analysis of business processes using fuzzy reasoning in view of business process re-engineering.
Structural analysis of business processes using fuzzy reasoning in view of business process re-engineering.
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Risk, Return and Credit
This dissertation investigates the role of credit in the evaluation of risk and return. The research comprises three essays, which analyze the use of credit from different perspectives. Chapter 1: The first essay proposes a comprehensive theory for the assessment and implementation of "acceptable" …
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Network design models for intermodal logistics
This research is motivated by the extraordinary increase in the use of intermodal shipments in recent years for both domestic and global movement of freight. Three mathematical models, which explore the dynamics of intermodal hub-and-spoke networks, are presented. These models use transportation …
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Franchising: A comparison of the EEC and US legislative approaches, with particular reference to territorial exclusivity.
… (US). The first chapter of this thesis is a general introduction to the franchise method and its main characteristics and features. Also included, is an introduction to the different types of franchise specific legislation. In the second chapter, the development of the approach taken towards …
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Application of Game Theory Analysis in Epidemiology and Service Management
<p>We present two game theoretic models on resource allocation in epidemic control and waiting time competition in service management.</p><p>The first model considers the drug allocation problem when facing the outbreak of an international influenza pandemic. The drugs are for prophylactic use. …
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Do Strategic Share Repurchase Programs Create Long-Run Firm Value
The findings in the paper do not support the theories that share repurchase programs are related to management signaling an increase in a firm's long-run performance in the market. Contrary to the hypothesized relationships, mean values of Tobin's Q were found to be slightly higher in the …
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Dynamic Financial Analysis of Property-Liability Insurance Companies
"This research applies state-of-the-art financial techniques to the dynamic financial modeling of property-liability (P-L) insurance companies. Dynamic financial analysis (DFA)--a relatively new concept in the P-L industry--attempts to analyze the underwriting and financial operations of an …
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Organizational Socialization Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions Integration: Helpfulness to Organizational Commitment
I discuss that particular OS practices that are useful for information acquisition about job and firm related aspects impact the organizational commitment (OC) of the employees. Following a merger decision, employees need to be guided by their organizations due to the uncertain environment the …
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An Exploration of the Information Exchange Process: Information-Seeking and Information-Dissemination Behaviors During Organizational Socialization
Adopting a qualitative approach to strategy identification, the results of this investigation revealed 17 information-seeking strategies and 34 information-dissemination strategies. With respect to the information-seeking strategies of newcomers, these findings suggest that newcomers may have a …
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"A Multi-Domain Analysis Framework for Product Development: The ""Mediating Links"" of Data, Information, and Knowledge in Complex Engineered Product Systems"
A comprehensive analysis and depiction of these relationships can help improve our understanding of how the connectivity of these domains impacts or drives one another. A better understanding of these interdependencies will also provide new insights into ways of managing the domains, ultimately …
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If You Build a Plan, Will They Join? Examining Small Business Employer Attitudes Towards Association Health Plans (H.R. 525, S. 1955)
The results suggest that business response will not be homogeneous, signaling the need for further research, such as a price sensitivity analysis to have a better understanding of firm and employee reactions to costs, a key concern for all firms in the current study.
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Value and Impact of B2B Electronic Commerce on Organizations: The Effects of Process, Organization, and Industry Conditions
… Web (Web), has become one of the more critical business infrastructures of modern organizations. This shift of IT from being a mere productivity enhancement tool for individual user to being a process-support tool at the ""extended enterprise"" level has created several challenges for …
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The Influence of Japanese Domestic Interfirm Networks in Japanese Cooperative Ventures in North America: Partner Choice, Speed of Venture Establishment, and Survival
Taken together, the findings of this research suggest that Japanese firms have mobilized their domestic network relationships to reduce the risk of internationalization. Yet, the research also shows that the Japanese firms have not entered into these domestic relationships to the exclusion of …
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Parallel Machine Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems: Impact of a Shared Resource and Multiple Stages
The second problem requires jobs to be processed at two stages. Each stage consists of identical parallel machines. The processing time is assumed to include the setup time. This problem is also modeled as a mathematical program. Solution approaches and lower bounding procedures are discussed. I …
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