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Car Purchasing Behavior in Beijing: – An Empirical Investigation

This report aims to provide a summary on young Chinese consumers’ car purchase behavior. The outcomes show that car purchasing decision is definitely an essential decision for many of Chinese. Consumers get information from different channels. The outcomes of the study also tells us that Chinese consumers just take “safety” as the utmost essential characteristic …

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International Financial Reporting Standards

The purpose of this thesis would be to examine the legal situation regarding the IFRS-transition in Sweden. Sweden includes a close linkage between accounting and taxation, meaning accounting rules have a material effect on taxation. IFRS currently applies only on group level, and the group isn’t susceptible to tax. However, you will find already indirect …

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Knowledge Management And Knowledge Workers

The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth of curiosity about organizational learning and Knowledge Management. This comes as an all natural consequence of the more and more widespread knowledge of the knowledge-based economy as a revolutionary change in the worldwide economy. The rise of the service economy, the increasingly flow of worldwide information, and …

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Shareholder-Value Maximization and Tacit Collusion

This report demonstrates that so long as the stock market has ideal foresight, some dividends are distributed, and incentives are paid more than once or are deferred, stock-related pay packages are powerful incentives for managers to aid tacit collusive deals in repeated oligopolies. The stock marketplace anticipates the losses from punishment periods and discounts them …

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A Process Approach to Corporate Coherence

We tackle the notion of corporate coherence. Applying observations from market-process theories, we put forward a dynamic understanding of corporate coherence as relating to the corporate capacity to strike a favorable equilibrium between the production and the exploitation of latest knowledge. This issue is elaborated drawing on Austrian, evolutionary and post- Marshallian economics.

Organisational Learning in Multinationals R&D networks of Japanese and U.S. MNEs in the U.K

The institutional approach treats organisational forms and behaviour as contingent upon institutions that are durable and socially embedded and so several authors have argued that the nature and modes of operation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) vary according to their national origins… This paper examines the ways in which national patterns of organisation and innovation affect …

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Innovation, Ownership and Profitability

This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previous literature suggests that innovators are persistently more profitable than non-innovators, but little is known about how this link is moderated by external versus domestic ownership… We consider the link between innovation and profits …

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What qualifies as a cluster theory?

Clusters are  non-random geographical agglomerations of firms with similar capabilities. This paper investigates the theoretical backgrounds of the “cluster” and proposes a framework aiming at drawing the contour of cluster theory. The profundity of the notion of ‘clusters’ is arguably conditional on the coherence of three fundamental issues associated with the concept.. 1) the economic and …

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Patent Portfolio Races in Concentrated Markets for Technology

Patent application numbers grow exponentially in many industries, a phenomenon that has been linked to high fragmentation of patent ownership. Contradicting these findings and theoretical arguments, we show that such fragmentation is not a precondition for sudden and strong increases in patenting. We describe and analyze a patent portfolio race in an industry with highly …

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