This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...

This paper centers around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees' incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees' incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since both...

The major issues for a retailer to bet his money on any particular brand in the form of advance booking may vary from the attractiveness of scheme to the feedback of farmers regarding performance of the brand in the previous year. The fact, that it also acts as a competition safeguard for the...

This article aims to analyze the five forces of Michael E. Porter, professor at Harvard Business School in the case of Insurance and Pension Funds Industry in Angola.We concluded that the five competitive forces of the insurance and of Angola pension funds industry are always subject to change...

Nowadays, when we speak about the economic performance of a firm, region or country, at the regional or world level, we always mention their state in economy of knowledge as well their competitive advantage and how their risk for doing business is being improved.This article tries to establish...

We consider a model in which agents choose a single niche to act. These niches could be different markets around the world or different contests. We look for the existence of a free entry equilibrium in which no agent wishes to switch to a different niche. When agents form a continuum,...

On the basis of five balance variables in bank balances (total assets, deposits, capital, operating income, and loans), the Hirschman–Herfindahl indices for period 2016–2021 are calculated. The indices values are decomposed by the Bajo and Salas approach, based on the fact that the...

This paper explored an unusually comprehensive dataset of more than 2,000 drug R&D projects all over the world during the 1990s. This enabled us to characterise several features of the innovation process in pharmaceuticals, particularly the different role and comparative R&D performance of the...

Considering the deep transformations that the banking sector has been experiencing in recent years at a competitive level, this research focuses on identifying the determinants of competitiveness and the variables affecting the same, regarding the level of resources, capabilities and...

This paper is a challenge in taking another view on cultural elements, considered to be more specific then any other strategic issues of management. The paper is structured into the following parts: cultural dimensions and variables; barriers to the organizational culture change and...