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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Firm Survival"”.
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Essays on Industrial Development
… development and industrialization in Indonesia, firm survival, and the relationship between ownership, productivity, and exports. The first study examines how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributes to rural industrialization using village-level survey data from 2018 and 2021. …
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A predictive approach for identifying high performance factories
… is used to explore leading indicators for firm survival in the garment industry. This project seeks to identify the major drivers of factory success through the lens of current factory performance metrics (quality, delivery, and compliance) and through a qualitative survey distributed to …
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Adaptation vs selection: an examination of the impact of deregulation on strategic change in U.S. banks
… changes in the strategy and structure of a firm in response to environmental changes. The organizational ecology perspective hypothesizes that a firm's ability to change is inversely related to organizational age and size and that organizations become inert as they grow and age. The …
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Essays On The Effects Of Asymmetric Information
… a cardinal tournament used by a representative firm to choose its next CEO. Candidates are managers of different types: they are heterogeneous over levels of ability and risk aversion. The managers have private information about their ability. In this context, a two-dimensional solution set of …
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Organising for innovation. A case study of innovation teams and team leadership in a large, R&D intensive firm
Successful innovation is vital for firm survival and success (Dougherty, 2004). Leaders of established companies acknowledge that radical innovation, in particular, is critical to their growth and renewal (Leifer et al, 2000). This is especially true for the research and development sector …
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The Competitive Implications of Intra-industry Diversification, the Firm-Investor Network, and Resource Acquisition Across the Firm Boundary: Evidence From The Hedge Fund Industry
… intra-industry diversification (chapter 2), the firm-investor network (chapter 3) and resource acquisition across the firm boundary (chapter 4) are of central concern to this thesis. The analysis draws on qualitative evidence, a quantitative, large-scale, longitudinal panel dataset (chapters 2 …
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Project Finance Contracting, Transaction Costs and Capital Structure
… and affect the capital structure of project firms. In an organizational form called project finance, firms create legally-separate and bankruptcy-remote project companies that are responsible for managing over several years or decades a single asset such as a mine or power plant typically …
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Firm growth, survival and productivity in South Africa
… makes it important to understand the dynamics of firm survival and growth. There has been little attention on the topic in developing countries because of data limitations, which prevalent in most developing countries except for few countries with established stock exchanges such as South Africa. …
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Managing Family Firm Survivability and Continuity Dynamics. A Comparison of UK-based Punjabi First- and Second-Generation Family Firms.
… and continuity dynamics in Punjabi-Indian family firms. In order to analyse these elements, family relationships were examined. Understanding the nature of family dynamics in ethnic minority-owned FBs based in the UK has rarely been subject to academic scrutiny. Using recent discussions …
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Exploring innovation within low and medium technology SMEs: a qualitative study of Irish food companies
… nature and management of innovation within such firms and the organisational capabilities that nurture their innovation output and continued survival. Encouragingly, numerous innovation researchers have begun to explore the innovation activity of the LMT sector and the SME’ within same (Bender …
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Exploring the level of readiness and identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the successful adoption of the Virtual Team (VT) mode of work into the Omani Commercial Banking Sector (OCBS)
… of the critical role that knowledge plays inthe firm survival and success of organisations in their markets. Virtual teams (VT) havea relatively short span of history in the research field. VT has been widely seen byinformation systems (IS) researchers as a promising mode of work that exploits …
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Predicting firm sustainability through governance: the relational corporate governance approach.
… ‘law and economics’ theories and models of the firm. It maps the effectiveness of corporate Governance Variables in use in corporate Governance Codes and laws around the world and assesses reform proposals in the field. The approach can be used by regulators, policymakers, law reformers and …
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Micro- and small-enterprise dynamism and consumer impacts: evidence from Tanzania
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01