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,...

It has become accepted doctrine among economists that the rate of profit in the United States has declined since the mid-1960s. What is less a matter of agreement is whether this decline represents a stage in a long-term secular decline. In a recent article Dumenil, Glick, and Rangel (1987)...

This descriptive research analyzes the relationship between organizational learning and new levels of competence and innovation. The data analysis used the Hernfindahl concentration ratio, Ren Model and regression analysis. The study analyzes development degree and diversification of electronics...

This paper examines mortgage credit markets and the need for government intervention to protect and advance the public interest. We identify as rationales for the public interest: positive and negative externalities, the promotion of equal access, and information asymmetry and principal agent...

Most scholars assume firms are politically unified - at least at the industry level. Yet recent contributions data reveal considerable variation in political preferences exhibited among firms in the same industry. This paper investigates what drives this intra-industry variation in partisan...

International transfer prices (ITP) policies affect economic decisions and corporate performance. It is a long held belief that multinational companies use ITP to minimize global tax liability. From this point of view, this is an administrative process but the strategy is also as a major...