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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"parent firm"”.
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A spinoffs study applied to the airline industry
… recently chosen. Through a spinoff, both the parent company and the divested subsidiary can each focus on their own activity, which translates into a better performance of both entities. This thesis studies the circumstances in which a spinoff is a good strategy to pursue, along with some …
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Internal Capital Market and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
… the internal capital market of a diversified firm fails to meet the needs of the relatively low growth divisions for less investment and the needs of the relatively high growth divisions for more investment. Higher differences in growth opportunities imply that more capital is misallocated. …
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Essays On Horizontal Divestitures And Product Market Relationships
… divestitures on upstream and downstream firms. This first essay examines product market impact of a sample of horizontal asset sales from 1988 to 2005 on corporate customers, suppliers, and industry rivals. I create a sample of firms that classifies corporate customers, suppliers, and …
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LINKING THREAT–OPPORTUNITY PERCEPTION AND DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES THROUGH COMMON ANTECEDENTS: AN AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER PERSPECTIVE
… factors similar to those determining a firm’s long-term competitive advantage (through dynamic capabilities)? In other words, how ‘valid’ are executives’ perceptions of environmental events? The dynamic capabilities and strategic issue diagnosis literature are silent on these questions. …
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Three Essays on Corporate Policies
… economics have historically tended to focus on firms' strategies in isolation. In contrast, a lot of the recent work explores how various aspects of firm behavior interact with each other. This dissertation contributes to this growing literature by studying the interdependences of organizational …
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The geographic sources of innovation in the multinational enterprise : U.S. subsidiaries and host country spillovers, 1980-1990
This dissertation is about multinational firms and the geography of technological innovation. It addresses a series of questions about the spatial location of the knowledge sources that underpin and inform innovations developed by foreign subsidiaries. Where foreign subsidiaries draw their …