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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Strategic behaviour"”.
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Essays on real options and strategic behaviour.
… the contingent claim approach by introducing a strategic dimension into the investment decision. In particular we focus on the case where an investor may be preempted by one or more competitors, and where there is an advantage of acting first. Secondly, we apply the strategic options approach to …
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ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC BEHAVIOUR IN DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS: THE CASE OF THE EX-SUGAR BEET FARMERS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS
… variables to explain farmers’ behaviour) has been developed with the purpose of identifying farmers’ motivations to adopt specific environmental policies. However, this research has not been extended to study strategic cropping decisions. This is surprising given the fact that …
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A strategic typology for UK small and medium sized enterprises. An investigation of influential factors and the development of a predictive typology
… health, however, our understanding of SME strategic behaviour is predominantly based on large enterprise theory. This study uses the Miles and Snow (1978) typology to examine the strategic behaviour of 150 UK SMEs. It also investigates whether strategy type, environment adaptation and …
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Strategic orientation and organizational performance of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
… little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of organizational performance. The following thesis aims at mapping out the strategic behaviour of small firms in the small island state of Malta, and …
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'Red-green' coalitions in the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance
… oriented payoffs as a determinant of coalition behaviour. To this end it uses the ‘policy network’ idiom of public policy analysis (with an emphasis on environmental policy) as a secondary theoretical framework. The theoretical framework is used in tandem with empirical data on institutional …
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Thomas Duff & Co and the Jute Industry in Calcutta, 1870-1921: Managing Agents and Firm Strategy
… advantage of and shape these barriers through strategic behaviour. They created a company form that allowed the structuring of incentives to reproduce a functional managerial hierarchy and renew their competitive advantage over time.Strategic behaviour by the founding directors of Thomas Duff & …
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Higher Education Governance in the Kingdom of Bahrain
… and social environmental factors influencing the strategic involvement of individual directors within Bahrain's HEIs. Specifically, by applying Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) selected constructs, this thesis seeks to propose an integrative framework for the individual directors in the Bahraini HEIs …
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Análisis de los factores explicativos del éxito empresarial: una aplicación al sector de la denominación de origen calificada Rioja
… most attractive issues within the field of the strategic management. In this sense, there is an interesting empiric discussion between those who, from the Industrial Economics perspective, advocate the prominence of the sector effect, and those who, closer to the stance of the resources-based …
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Market orientation, competitive strategy type and performance in independent retail businesses : a contingency analysis in a market town context
… retailer performance, market oriented behaviour, competitive strategy and prevailing environmental contingency variables. Relationships in the model are tested using valid and reliable measurement constructs for market orientation and performance, which are based upon data collected …
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Essays on strategic fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities
… Flemish municipalities in general and focuses on strategic policy in particular. As an introduction to local fiscal policy, we investigated the simultaneous role of partisan effects, of fragmentation, of interaction dynamics, of electoral cycles and of fiscal illusion effects on the Flemish local …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Analysts on Financial Markets
… develop the idea that analysts may have different strategic behaviour to influence the market. The main contribution is to provide evidence that the market assigns different weights to different analysts and to show that more experienced analysts have more significant impact on asset prices and trading …
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Market share competition in the Chinese online game industry.
… The empirical context of my research is the strategic behaviour of online game operators (i.e. the companies who operate online games) in the Chinese online game market – the most active market in the world with strong network effects. According to the literature review, previous pricing …
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Enviropreneurial Management An effective approach to cope with the ecological challenge
… approach meet the ecological challenge in a strategic manner. In order to achieve this objective a case study approach was chosen in the second phase based on ten interviews conducted in the food & allied industry. The survey aimed at examining the management style, organisational structure …
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How parties behave: the role of strategy in contemporary British political parties
… model a theoretical view is formed that the strategic objectives of parties sit someway between Budge's two conceptual extremes, qualifying the latter with the Idea of constructive and destructive policy pursuing parties and forming an idea of an organisation's mission. This thesis Is a study …
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IT strategizing of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
… is known on how small firms are adopting IT strategically to acheive business-IT alignment and how alignment changes over time. This study examines from a dynamic perspective IT adoption actions undertaken by owner-managers, in relation to business-IT alignment in small firms in the island …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity
… of macroeconomic shocks is impacted by strategic behaviour and the distribution of financially constrained firms. The last two chapters address the topic of identification in macroeconomics with the last chapter focusing on the measurement of heterogeneous dynamic effects after a …
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The culturally adaptive functionality of self-regulation: Explorations of children's behavioural strategies and motivational attitudes
… in terms of their expression of self-regulatory behaviours, the psychological factors underlying these behaviours, and the functionality of these behaviours for task performance. It also compared student adoption of achievement motivational attitudes as well as the functionality of these …