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Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial health. Neglecting these differences confuses inefficiency with heterogeneity while sub-sample estimation prohibits efficiency comparisons across different samples. We use a...
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Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
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The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy …, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of “culture-strategy” relation are defined as a starting point of the analysis. The … way a contemporary notion of the nature of “culture-strategy” relationship for the entities from the world of business is …
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Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa. This paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion of supermarkets and the impact this has had on...
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This paper explores the effect of the spread of supermarkets on the participation of suppliers in supermarket value chains in Botswana and South Africa. Using secondary data and in-depth interviews with key players in the value chain, the paper evaluates the buyer power of supermarkets evidenced...
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A business model describes the design of the value creation and capture mechanisms needed to yield profit. We contend that for a business model to be viable in turbulent and hypercompetitive environments, its dynamics are important and must leverage, out of all key business model modules...
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determined by the organization's configuration and then, by the type of strategy for entering the international market. The paper … strategy or the strategy for entering a foreign market. The research sample consists of 120 export-oriented companies from … environment, power, age, size, business strategy, and technical system. The main research about organizational structures was …
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This paper investigates informal employment in Brazil's highly regulated labor market, focusing on the intensive margin …
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effects of overconfidence on market entry to be ambiguous if not irrelevant. In a first step, we emphasize the … maker. This enables us to analyze through which channels they may affect market entry. By considering over- and … underconfidence in the entrepreneur's forecasting ability, we find that market entry may be affected positively, negatively, or not at …
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Substantial efforts have contributed to overcome the scarcity of research on hidden champions. Nevertheless, literature has yet missed to compile a comprehensive review. Drawing on the insights of 112 publications, four strands of literature could be distinguished to unravel the essence of...
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