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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Industrial Organisation"”.
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Essays in industrial organisation
This thesis consists of three independent chapters: In the first chapter, we consider a Hotelling model of price competition where firms may acquire information regarding the preferences (i.e. “location”) of customers. By purchasing additional information, a firm has a finer partition regarding …
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Essays in Economic Epidemiology and Industrial Organisation
… model. The latter two chapters focus on industrial organisation. Both of these chapters analyse opaque selling, which is when a firm sells their products through a lottery mechanism that randomly rewards consumers with a product that is revealed after purchase. Chapter 1, Epidemics in …
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Aspects of the furniture industry in Ireland
This dissertation examines aspects of networking, industrial organisation, innovation, and industrial agglomeration in the Irish furniture manufacturing industry. With its focus on firm behaviour, industrial organisation and industrial structure the research is located within the tradition of …
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Modeling performance differentials in large construction organisations in South Africa
… the relationship between the constructs: organisational characteristics, resources, capabilities, competitive strategies, business environment and performance of large construction organisations in South Africa. It examines whether the synthesis of different theoretical views - industrial …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… to the relationships between knowledge, power, industrial organisation and the capture of surplus value from the production system. The analysis highlights how Australia's position in garment production is framed by its geographical position on the periphery of the fashion world.
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Working-class politics in Sheffield, 1900-1920 : A regional study in the origins and early growth of the Labour Party.
… sections. The first examines local trade union organisation and practice, across the local trades and industries. It locates specific areas of weakness and strength, estimates the importance of tradition, leadership and nature of work in contributing to a political perspective, and adds to our …
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Real options and strategic interactions in imperfectly competitive markets
… when real options ideas are embedded in industrial organisation-type frameworks. The results are insights that neither field, thus far, has captured independently.Firstly, we present a real options model in an investment game of incomplete information in a duopoly where product market …
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The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry
… were the inexorable motive for a profit driven industrial organisation and on the side of organised labour, the imperatives to protect skills, jobs and wages. The existence of the one set of imperatives presupposed the need to redefine the existence of the other set. These contradictory …
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An empirical analysis of the strategic group concept within the UK construction industry
… a plethora of empirical research in both the industrial organisation economics and strategic management dliscipliiies, emphasising the importance of strategic groups in understanding the differences across firms within an industry. Despite the rich theoretical tradition from which the …
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An empirical study of marketing environment strategy and performance in the property market
By adapting industrial organisation, resource based theories and PIMS database research, the study proposes the organisation-environment-strategy-performance (OESP) framework and a model of property marketing in the Taiwan property market. The thesis proposed and tested an integrative model of …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… origins of society; supply chain networks and industrial organisation; and game theory on economic networks. Chapter 1 Anthropological evidence has shown that humans in the earliest agricultural societies worked harder and had lesser health outcomes than humans in hunter-gatherer societies. We …
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An analysis of Total Quality Management implementation in Mexican large industry
… the quality of its products, most Mexican large industrial organisations have introduced TQM into their management systems. Since there was no previous knowledge on how to do that in Mexican organisations, they have had to follow the strategies used in other countries for this purpose. However, …
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Firm growth, survival and productivity in South Africa
… developing economies, the existence of a healthy industrial structure is vital to the pursuit of long term policy objectives of employment and sustainable economic growth. This makes it important to understand the dynamics of firm survival and growth. There has been little attention on the topic …
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DIRECT VIS-À-VIS INDIRECT MODE OF EXPORT IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
This research examines direct and indirect mode of export in sub-Saharan Africa through a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis. We use firm-level data from 38 sub-Saharan Africa countries to test the theoretical findings. The first chapter analyzes a manufacturing firm that chose to …
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Information, communication and organizational culture : a grounded theory approach.
… and communication phenomena within one industrial organisation. From its intellectual situation within the interpretive epistemological tradition the thesis seeks to demonstrate the utility of the case study approach combined with the style of qualitative analysis known as 'grounded …
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Performance of Zambian Commercial Banks in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence on Cost Efficiency, Competition and Market Power
… on a methodology anchored in the New Empirical Industrial Organisation literature, the results of a competitive test showed that banks earned their revenue under conditions of monopolistic competition. This finding was buttressed by the estimated time varying Lerner Index, a measure of market …
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Disintermediation and re-intermediation in the music business: the effect of multimedia technologies and E-commerce
… returns" from economics, "value chain" from industrial organisation and theories on "search costs" and "quality uncertainty" from the economics of information. Special mention is given to the literature on the music industry dealing with the production and commercialisation of music, the …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… Conduct - Performance (S-C-P) approach to industrial organisation provides the basic framework for our analysis in the first part of the study. The second research methodology is indus•ry case studies. Two industry studies presented in this study are cigarettes and cement. The study begins …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… Conduct - Performance (S-C-P) approach to industrial organisation provides the basic framework for our analysis in the first part of the study. The second research methodology is indus•ry case studies. Two industry studies presented in this study are cigarettes and cement. The study begins …
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