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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"U.S. manufacturing firms"”.
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Strategies for U.S. Manufacturers to Defend Home Markets from International Competition
<p>The existing research on ways U.S. manufacturing firms can improve performance is limited to strategies to grow internally with focus on human resource and financial strategies. Therefore, there is little information regarding how the firms can defend themselves from international competition. …
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Essays on the dynamics of qualitative aspects of firms' behavior
… and empirically qualitative aspects of firms' behavior in dynamic settings. CHAPTER 1. ENDOGENOUS ATTRITION OF FIRMS: An Investigation with COMPUSTAT Data Chapter One develops a dynamic programming model of firms' attrition and investigates econometric aspects of firms' exit decisions. …
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Investment, Uncertainty, and the Impact of Real Options
… using financial data for a sample of 320 U.S. manufacturing firms over the period from 1996 to 2009. The introduction of uncertainty to the investment problem implies that the valuation of capital should be a positive multiple of the acquisition cost which, in effect, compensates the firm for …
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Three Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics
… an index of agency cost pertaining to U.S. manufacturing firms. The cyclical behavior of the unobservable agency cost is derived by a novel application of the Kalman filter within a Bayesian framework, using firm level data from 1984-2006. The preliminary results provide support to the …
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Developing a Focal Firm’s Sustainable Supply Chain Framework: Drivers, Orientation, Practices and Performance Outcomes
… 1989), and the resource-based view of firms (Barney, 1991), this dissertation presents a framework, by taking a holistic view, of a sustainable supply chain aimed at explaining the relationships between the antecedents, strategic orientation, supply chain practices, and performance …