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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Competitive behavior"”.
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Competitive behavior of airlines at multiple airport systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995.
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Market Structure and Competitive Behavior in the Fluid Milk Distribution Industry
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The Upper-Echelon Perspective of Firm Competitive Behavior: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
… on how the Upper-Echelon team drives the actual competitive behavior of the firm, which is manifested in the launching of observable and purposeful competitive actions within the marketplace. Considering that competitive behavior research tends to overlook the importance of human assets, in …
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"Corporate Governance and Firm-Level Competitive Behavior: Testing ""Capability"" and ""Motivation"" Effects in the United States Pharmaceutical Industry"
… managers to engage actively in more aggressive competitive actions. The empirical results also suggest that firm capability defines the scale and scope of firm-level competitive activity.
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Case study of the competitive behavior of companies in response to disruptive technologies in the dynamic environment of changing user needs
Innovations are part of everyday reality in the business life of many companies. While for startups, success in business largely depends on success of innovations as they are trying to enter the market, for large monopolistic companies the influx of innovations is a crucial part of strategic …
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An Analysis of Agressive Interactions Between Procambarus Spiculifer and Procambarus Versutus in Laboratory-Based Interspecific Contacts
… study was undertaken to investigate the role of competitive behavior in the distribution of the crayfish Procambarus spicullfer and Procambarus versutus. Forty pairs of animals, one of each species per pair, were matched by size and gender. For each pair, four fifteen minute agonistic encounters …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
… Ivory Coast a set of export strategies in non-competitive and non-cooperative market settings, using policy actions such as taxation, hedging, coalition formation, reservation pricing and scheduled marketings. One can typify the cocoa market as an interfacing of oligopolistic exporters and …
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Drosophila Glypicans Regulate Follicle Stem Cell Maintenance and Niche Competition
… follicle stem cell (FSC) maintenance and FSC competitiveness for niche occupancy. We find that dally is essential for normal FSC maintenance while dlp mutant FSC progenitors outcompete normal FSCs and eventually occupy the entire epithelial sheet. In addition, Dally and Dlp have both partially …
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Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?
… whether private tankers display any form of anti-competitive behavior by addressing two questions: 1) Do private water tankers exhibit monopoly power, and 2) Do private water tanker prices vary depending on the characteristics of the customers they serve? Evidence collected in July-August 2014 and …
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Enemies, partners or friends? Employers perspectives on conflict management by employee representatives in Europe.
… understanding on the conflicts and conflict behaviors of ERs, particularly as perceived by their counterpart in the organization, being HR managers. This subject is understudied, however of great interest, both from academic and societal point of view. First, we developed a heuristic model …
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Oligopolistic market-making and inventory heterogeneity
… plays a crucial role in defining the strategic competitive behavior of agents and observed liquidity provision. Tight capital constraints can generate "resting" behavior for a market maker. Under relaxed capital constraints, the width of the bid-ask spread positively correlates with inventory …
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Organizational cultural change and its impacts on performance in public institution: the case of Tanzania Public Services College
… had a positive impact on the performance and competitive behavior of the Company. The structural changes implemented facilitated increase in productivity and efficiencies by outsourcing non-core activities, People development, equipping them with skills enough to manage changes, and operating …
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Efficient Learning Control via Structural Policy Priors, Latent World Models and Hierarchical Abstraction
… that enable efficient acquisition of complex behaviors while limiting prior knowledge, direct human supervision, and computational requirements. Our study focuses on learning from interaction through reinforcement learning, combining insights from model-free, model-based, and hierarchical …
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An Investigation into Selenium Geochemistry in Phosphate Mine Soils
… whole and a sequence of extracted soils. Lastly, competitive adsorption of Se with two dissolved organic carbon (DOC) species, citric and salicylic acid, was examined on an amorphous iron oxide mineral surface. A strong relationship was identified for western aster Se and the first two combined …
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Essays on vertical price restraint, merger and competitive conduct
… investigates the two-fold impact on the competitive conduct of U.S. brewers of a) changes in the legal approach towards vertical price restraint and b) recent mergers and acquisition activities of leading brewers. These changes may have profound repercussions for the level of competition …
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Economic analysis of winter vegetable markets in Tunisia
… between various units of this industry. Competitive behavior has prevailed at all stages of the various marketing channels. Performance analysis found evidence of efficiency in the existing scale and methods of operation of the various firms. However, spatial price data suggested that …
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Competition in tendering of urban public transport services in France
… tenders and that the operators in general lack competitive behavior. From this evidence, the thesis identifies five reasons for the lack of competition in the French tendering system. One obstacle is regulatory: labor law L122.12, which imposes the renewal of employment contracts on the new …
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Dynamics and Phase Behavior of Mixed Antibody-Excipient Adsorption at an Air/Water Interface
… 1). However, the mechanism of the adsorption behavior of mAbs in the presence of surfactant is still an open scientific question and understanding the mechanism of adsorption is critical to the production and administration of the next generation mAb-based pharmaceuticals. This work elucidates …