companies completed the ideal merger? The thesis analyzes the mergers in chronological order of the merger deals starting from …The mergers between AT&T and Cingular, Sprint and Nextel, and Verizon and Alltel telecommunication companies have … companies in each merger as separate entities before the merger, the actions they took while completing the merger, and the new …

Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …

account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation … more likely to display the inverted U relationship between competition and innovation. …

relationship between competition and innovation, Aghion, Dewatripont and Rey (1999) showed that this could be reversed if agency …Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective … considerations were introduced. In their model competition acts as an incentive mechanism to reduce managerial slack, which produces …

innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences … whether mimicry inhibits innovation, or which type of mimicry would be better evaluated. As such, mimicry in Marketing is …

between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the … goods; design changes tomedical devices; and changes in drug formulas. While the patent lawsprovide a spur to innovation by …

This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …

entrepreneurship on one of their champions, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter's insights on innovation and entrepreneurship issues are ….Findings - Insights gained from Schumpeter include the following: in the context of increasing global competition, the importance of …, though imperfectly, without interference. Originality/value - The paper suggests that innovation and entrepreneurship are the …

option; it is crucial to the ongoing success of global businesses. Leadership that encourage innovation and entrepreneurial … create shared perceptions that support innovation and entrepreneurship. This paper argues for congruency, as well as …