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diversification. Re-focusing means a tendency of groups to choose portfolio strategies relevant with business relatedness. …Refocusing deals with the tendency of the groups to grow on controlled markets. It is a result of several constraints … goodwill for the benefit of financial investors, leaving to the asset managers the part of diversifying the risks. Refocusing …
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tâche de diversification des risques. Le recentrage est une tendance de longue période. Il ne se confond pas avec la … comme si chaque groupe tentait de converger vers son niveau « optimal » de diversification. Le recentrage désigne donc la … diversification. Re-focusing means a tendency of groups to choose portfolio strategies relevant with business relatedness. …
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Young firm diversification is examined investigating the determinants of the timing of diversification (i.e. how long … it takes from start-up to diversification). We use extensive longitudinal data containing information on firms …
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Young firm diversification is examined investigating whether diversifying firms have higher survival chances. We use … important role in early diversification. Firms diversifying after birth are more likely to survive the older they are at the … moment of diversification, suggesting that early diversification may be associated with entry mistakes by firms that have not …
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Tourism is characterized for being a sector that has been highlighted as one of the activities with greatest potential for expansion on a global scale. For its growth potential and for being a product that can only be consumed in loco, tourism accepts the prominence role of being a strategy for...
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The paper elaborates on succession planning among Polish family businesses. Research survey was conducted on a random sample of 496 family enterprises in first quarter of 2009 (first phase, survey) and 61 family enterprises in third quarter of 2009 (second phase, in-depth-interview). The main...
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In this paper, we examine the environmental scanning strategy of manufacturing companies in Southwestern Nigeria against the background that manufacturing companies in Nigeria exist in a challenging environment characterised by high import dependency, inappropriate policies, lack of transparent...
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Over much of the last two decades, the economy of Malawi has been characterized by economic turbulence and uncertainty that has done serious damage to the private sector. Rapid liberalization exposed an unprepared private sector to potentially damaging forces. This paper draws upon the most...
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The article examines the firm's choice of incentives when workers face additional incentives (“external incentives”) to those provided by the firm, such as building reputation that improves the workers' prospects with other employers, or satisfaction from working well. Surprisingly, the firm...
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This study elucidates the mixed gamble confronting family firms when considering a related firm acquisition. The socioemotional and financial wealth trade-off associated with related firm acquisitions as well as their long-term horizon turns family firms more likely to undertake a related...
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