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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Market expansion"”.
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Public policy and barriers influencing SMEs' market expansion
… to funding, regulatory frameworks, and access to market information) on the market expansion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a setting that includes both private and public institutions instead of only public institutions. To that end, the resource-based view of a firm (RBV) theory and …
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The commercialisation of small firm technologies in Western Australia : A case for user-producer interaction and the integration of large industrial users with small technology producers
… extensive product diversification and market expansion opportunities as opposed to those firms interacting with small industrial users. In addition to the product diversification and market expansion opportunities acquired through interactions with these large industrial users, it was …
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Digital Divide: Investigating the integration of marketing and ICTs for South African retailers expanding throughout Africa
… are increasingly used in organisations’ market expansion strategies. These Information communication technologies provide organisations with opportunities such as ease of communication and movement of resources, making the entry into new markets a faster and less resource heavy process. …
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The balancing test: Is fairtrade cotton a sustainable policy for improving the livelihoods of Indian cotton producers?
… on the theoretical framework that agricultural market expansion promotes farmers’ development, this study determines if Fairtrade cotton is a viable strategy for increasing market access for cotton farmers in India.</p>
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Rotary ultrasonic machining of ceramics: Characterization and extensions
… properties. One of the reasons hindering their market expansion is the high cost of machining with current technology. There is a crucial need for the development of machining processes which are capable of achieving high material removal rate while maintaining the surface/subsurface damage to …
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Developing an Agent-based Integrated Framework for Investigating the Potential Expansion and Impact of the Electric Vehicle Market: Test Cases in Two Chinese Cities
… framework for investigating how the EV market expands in the context of urban evolution at the micro scale, and assessing the potential impacts of the market expansion on the environment, power grid system and transport facilities, considering the interactions and dynamics found there. …
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The decline of civic trust in the United States: a critical assessment of competing explanations
… of relative overpopulation, and domestic market expansion, leads to the decline of civic trust both directly and indirectly. In this process institutional degradation and social capitals decline work as intervening variables in this process, as their degradation is also triggered by the …
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The changing competitive landscape of the smartphone industry
… better positioned to benefit from this upcoming market expansion. In conclusion, potential future scenarios resulting from changing market dynamics were investigated and compared.
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Dynamic Demand and Pricing Strategy in the E-Book Market
… cannibalizing print books and how much serve as market expansion to the book business. I empirically address these questions using individual-level data from 2008 to 2012. I estimate a dynamic structural model of consumer e-reader adoption and subsequent book purchases, including quantity, …
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Essays on Economic Growth and Innovation
… 2). They provide a new channel through which market structure and property rights affect long-run technological change. Chapter 1. The first chapter is motivated by the observation that the direction of innovation shapes both current technologies and future innovation opportunities, as firms …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… an understudied inefficiency—a positive market expansion externality that benefits the owners of the components. We demonstrate the importance of this externality in the market for pharmaceutical cancer treatments, where drug combination therapies have proven highly effective. Using data …
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Anglo-German commercial and financial rivalry in Brazil 1900-1929
… trade and her ability to withstand Germany's expansion into new overseas markets. An examination of institutional structures and competitive behaviour in trade, banking and finance highlights intersectoral linkages, and broadens the conventional interpretations of historical shifts in relative …
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Identifying Opportunities for Engineered Lumber Products in the Modular Housing Industry
… region is growing. The greatest barrier to market expansion is transportation costs. Expansion is expected in the South and Midwest regions of the US. Most competition comes from site-built and manufactured homebuilders. To stay competitive, respondents plan to increase customization options …
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Overseas Aid as a Diplomatic Tool: UK Aid in India
… ranging from poverty alleviation to neo-liberal market expansion to geopolitics. I argue that contemporary UK aid is positioned as a ‘retro-realist’ tool to advance UK geopolitical and diplomatic interests. Taking the case of UK aid to India, I use an ethnographic methodology and my own …
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Global expansion strategies for software firms
… think through when it considers international expansion to another country or region. Third, a DAC framework (local demand, accessibility and complementarity) is also introduced to simplify the thought process in determining which countries or regions a firm should focus its resources on, along …
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Essays on International Trade
… at the intersection of trade policy, labor market outcomes, and firms' productivity. It consists of three chapters.</p><p>Chapter 1 investigates firms' importing and exporting decision-making and how these decisions impact firms' future productivity. First, I document some facts about firms' …
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Bargaining power, ownership and control of international joint ventures in Taiwan
… consideration, resource complementarily, market expansion. The findings reveal a limited number of significant correlations between motivation factors and control.
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… trade using qualitative methods from the marketing literature (i.e., market expansion grids) but modified to fit bilateral trade relationships and a theoretical index to measure the margins of trade at a single point in time. In addition, we examine often overlooked channels by which U.S. …
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Crafting Legitimacy: Status Shifts, Critical Discourse, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Cultural Field of Craft Beer in the United States from 2002 to 2017
… compared to 8,386 in 2019. Along with this rapid market expansion, the cultural status of beer also underwent significant changes. Despite the exponential rise in the number of craft breweries as well as the emergence of a craft beer culture, little empirical scholarship on the field of craft beer …
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The Imitation Economy: How AT&T’s contestability doctrine transformed the neoliberal project
… a global economic system, coordinated by 'the' market transmitting prices through telecommunications channels. The market they had conceived was an information processor, truth verifier and regulator of itself through competition, the dynamic system that constantly updated prices. As Mirowski …
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