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Service offshoring and export experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2021
Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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Why firms should care for all consumers
Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2015
We compare the strategic potential of Corporate Social Responsibility and Customer Orientation as commitments to larger quantities in Cournot competition. In addition to profits, firms can choose to care for the surplus of either all consumers (CSR) or their own customers only (CO), and if so,...
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Opt in versus opt out : a free-entry analysis of privacy policies
Bouckaert, Jan (contributor); Degryse, Hans (contributor) - 2006
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Switching beers? : the effects of switching costs on prices and profits in competitive markets
He, Xiaoyang; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
We consider a dynamic oligopoly on the beer market and study the differential effects of switching costs on product prices, market shares, and profits. Our demand estimation results show large differences in brand loyalty, and switching costs across customer income segments and beer brands. Our...
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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019
Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...
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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
emerge as substitutes both in theory and in the data. …
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and …-efficiency gains from better management of the production processes, inventories, supply-chain, product distribution, and timing of … investments ; competitive advantage ; production management ; supply-chain management …
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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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Finance, control, and profitability : the influence of German banks
Chirinko, Robert S.; Elston, Julie Ann Michelle - 2003
. Germany is the prototypical economy where universal banks allegedly exert substantial influence over firms. Despite frequent …
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