John Baldwin and Guy Gellatly find that the strategic decisions young firms make play a critical role in determining their odds for survival and growth. New small firms survive by developing a core set of business skills – skills related inter alia to management, human resources, marketing and...

Entry is important because new firms and new plants provide an important source of competition to incumbents. They are a source of new products and technologies. In this paper, we outline the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and exited the Canadian manufacturing sector over each...

This paper investigates the evolution of the industrial structure in the Canadian manufacturing sector and its relationship to technological change by examining the take-up of advanced technologies and how it is related to the stochastic growth process in the plant population. Its framework is...

An AIDS-like demand system model is developed with an easy-to-calculate chain-price index that replaces the price index in the original AIDS.

Preference variables are included in the inverse Rotterdam model based on the Tintner-Ichimura-Basmann relationship linking preference effects on quantities demanded to price effects and preference effects on marginal utilities. Restrictions are placed on the effects of the preference variables...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between countries’ values of individualism/collectivism and organizations’ top management team (TMT) pay structures. Individualistic countries are expected to prefer more hierarchical TMT pay structures and collectivist...

Refers to a training package of the same name. Describes the dangers of “pigeon‐holing” people and recommends that a good judge of character should be an explorer. Provides a people‐judgement questionnaire and concludes that whilst we are all pigeon‐holers to some degree we should use...

Consumer selection of retail patronage mode has been widely researched by marketing scholars. Several researchers have segmented consumers by shopping orientation. However, few have applied such methods to the Internet shopper. Despite the widespread belief that Internet shoppers are primarily...