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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Entry Decisions"”.
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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions
… effects of transaction hazards and pre-entry organizational capabilities on the choice between internalization and external development of a value-chain activity? Essay three examines a firm’s technology management and industry entry strategies when facing an emerging radical technology, …
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A risk-based entry decision model for South African construction companies venturing into African markets
… of South African construction companies on entry decisions made to access cross‐border African construction markets. The study further investigates how the resources of South African construction companies and their decisions to enter into African construction markets, interact to mitigate …
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Economic Spillovers and Learning from Others
… food industry, I propose and estimate a game of entry under incomplete information that incorporates spillover effects between firms' entry decisions. A positive spillover is identified for Burger King - increasing the stock of existing McDonald's by 1 outlet increases Burger King's estimated …
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The Multinational Enterprise
This thesis analyzes the strategic market entry decisions of multinational enterprises. The dissertation is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and describes the recent trends and relevant literature as regards this form of international capital flows. Chapter 2 and …
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Targeting Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Groups for Timber Market Entry
This study models the timber market entry decisions of nonindustrial private landowners. It involves examining reservation prices both for harvesting timber from existing forest land and for afforestation of marginal agricultural and abandoned land. An important conclusion drawn from these models …
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The effects of mergers in broadcast television
… by estimating a model of television station entry decisions from 1993 to 1998. Using the method of simulated moments to estimate the entry model, I find that stations operated under local marketing agreements are significantly more likely to enter. Controlling for the endogeneity of local …
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BUSINESS FAILURE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE COST OF FAILURE
… the cost of business failure in entrepreneurial decisions and behaviors. The review extensively takes stock of what has been studied on the effect of the costs of failure and provides future research questions to advance our knowledge. The second and third essay respond to the call of research …
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Parents Between Work and Family Demands in the UK and Germany
… play an important role for mothers’ (re-)entry decisions. Also interesting is that mothers seem to compensate for the negative effects of their partners’ unemployment experiences with increased labour force participation. The thesis finishes with a conclusion that summarises the results of …
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Essays on economic growth and informational frictions
… of the model. In Chapter 3 I study a model of entry under uncertainty. In particular, I analyze an economy where potential entrants make entry decisions after receiving noisy signals of the true demand levels for the different sectors of the economy. I show that equilibrium strategies depend on …
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Institutional theory of naive money
… characterizes how naive money influences the decisions of active mutual fund managers: in particular, managerial effort, fees, marketing expenses, private benefit-seeking, and risk-taking. My model predicts that managers who receive a surplus of naive money are inclined to reduce their …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY
… Chapter 2: The Effect of Different Post-Entry Experiences on Changing Market Entry Choices The second chapter focuses on post-entry operations of multinational retail firms that are required to offer a standardized service for an effective knowledge redeploying, but also need to recombine …
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Emerging market entry and risk assessment process analysis in a biopharmaceutical supply chain organization
… the next several years. While the current market entry practices for emerging markets are meeting Amgen's needs, rapid expansion poses significant challenges. This thesis explores two primary aspects, the investigation of improvement opportunities in the commercialization of emerging markets and …
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Essays on the financial constraints and related firm behaviour: the case of Pakistan
… role of financial constraints on firms‟ export entry decisions in our second empirical chapter. Previous studies show a link between financial health and export participation decision leaving a gap for us to check the role of financial constraints in export participation decision. Moreover, most …