RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2002 pp. 298–318 Firm financial condition and airline price wars Meghan Busse∗ A firm that knows that cutting price may trigger a price war must weigh present versus future gains and losses when considering such a move. The firm’s financial situation can affect how it values such tradeoffs. Using data on 14 major airlines between 1985 and 1992, I test the hypothesis that firms in worse financial condition are more likely to start price wars. Empirical
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Why did the newsroom staff not see the online format as an opportunity? The USA Today case presents the problems of a planning process and strategies inside a corporation related to performing changes in the organizational structure and teams. USA Today is a newspaper company of Gannett Corporation, that whit the beginning of the digital era started to have problems with their organizational and operational structure. The biggest problem faced by USAT was the integration between their different
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works in practice because performance measures are linked to any of a number of incentives that employees value. Employees respond to these incentives. The measures, then, play valuable motivational, or decision influencing, roles. But what performance measure (or measures) should be used? At managerial levels of organizations, both at the corporate and entity levels, job responsibilities are both broad and varied. In common jargon, managers are said to be multitasking. Reflecting that task variety,
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treatment effect model this study analyze that international trade fair participation as an important factor to enhance export of the country. Like wise this model also explains the county characteristics, which determines the international trade fair participation. Overall this paper focuses on international trade fair participation as one of the important factor along with other factors positively affecting the export of China. Keywords: China export, international trade fairs, and treatment effect model
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Marketing Research Project Report Topic: The Changing Trends in Investment Pattern of People in India In Partial Fulfilment of the Course Marketing Research Submitted To: Dr Shalini Trivedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Amity Business School, Amity University. Submitted by: Shivani Mehta (E 12) Nupur Mittal (E 21) Abdul Azeem (E 24) Prateek Saini (E 27) Jalees Ahmed (E 57) Rashmita Bora (E 61) DECLARATION We hereby declare that all the work presented in the
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UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI : : CHENNAI 600 025 REGULATIONS - 2009 CURRICULUM I TO IV SEMESTERS (FULL TIME) MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) SEMESTER – I |Code No. |Course Title |L |T |P |C | |BA9101 |Statistics for Management |3 |1 |0 |4 | |BA9102 |Economic Analysis for Business
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the external environment in which business operates and explain the idea of environmental uniqueness l Understand the nature of the ‘internal’ environment of business l Understand how businesses must respond to changing environmental factors in order to operate successfully, but also how they seek to influence the environment l Use analysis tools such as PEST or SWOT to examine the business environment l Understand the approach to the business environment of this book and
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Competitors to the rule of wealth maximization and their limitations. Factors affecting value creation. Corporate governance around the world. Corporate Financial Management deals with the decisions of a firm related to investment, financing and dividend. To carry on business, a firm invests in tangible assets like plant and machinery, buildings, and intangible assets like goodwill and patents. This comprises the investment decision. These assets don’t come free; one has to pay for them, so a company
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determinants of decision by companies to offshore innovation activities. It uses survey data from the international Offshoring Research Network project to estimate the impact of managerial intentionality, past experience, and environmental factors on the probability of offshoring innovation projects. The results show that the emerging shortage of highly skilled science and engineering talent in the US and, more generally, the need to access qualified personnel are important explanatory factors for offshoring
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classification might include financial reporting (annual and interim reporting, regulatory filings) and ad hoc disclosure (press releases, analyst meetings, etc). Any classification is arbitrary, and potentially useful depending on its purpose. 3. Factors contributing to the internationalization
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