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We investigate the situation where a customer experiencing an inventory stockout at a retailer potentially leaves the firm's market. In classical inventory theory, a unit stockout penalty cost has been used as a surrogate to mimic the economic effect of such a departure; in this study, we...
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Purpose - This paper evaluates the comparative progress of Asda in the UK since its surprise takeover by Wal-Mart in 1999. Wal-Mart expected to become the #1 retailer in the UK and many commentators saw massive problems ahead for local retailers. These expectations were not met; this paper...
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neighbours are subject to similar environmental conditions, but the confounding influence of competition was also observed over …
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This dissertation studies important issues in supply chain management and marketing interface research: competition …
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separately examine the effect of each form of market competition on audit fees. We find that advertising is associated with … as indicating an increase in competition among accounting firms. Our results suggest that there may be a much more … complex relationship among market competition, advertising and solicitation, and fees than the arguments used to originally …
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include: making money from innovation; competition between technologies and the selection of standards; optimal licensing … clarify the interactions between competition, patterns of technological and market change, and the structure and development …
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maintenance for over 100 years.Firstly, legal exceptions, allowing some margin for price competition are investigated. In the … service may even rise after abolition of RPM, if competition in service proves important in winning new customers …
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Mit der Schaffung des europäischen Versicherungsbinnenmarkteswurde 1994 auch der deutsche Versicherungsmarkt liberalisiert.Damit stehen seither den Unternehmen auf diesen Märkten mit derProduktgestaltung, der Prämienkalkulation und derRisikoklassifikation neue Wettbewerbsinstrumente zur...
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The introduction of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) ended the quasi-monopoly of national exchanges in equity trading across Europe and enabled alternative platforms, so-called multilateral trading facilities (MTF), to compete for order flow. This thesis analyzes...
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