Strategic Behaviour of Incumbent Firms in the Uk

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

The Effect of Market Entry on Innovation: Evidence from UK University Incubators∗

This paper investigates the effect of market entry of new firms on incumbent firms’ innovative activity measured as patent applications. The basic assumption is that the effect of entry varies by geographical distance between entrants and incumbents due to the presence of localized unobserved spillovers. In order to avoid endogeneity problems commonly associated with the timing of entry and ent...

Globalisation , Productivity and Technology Research Paper 2004 / 35 Export Oriented FDI by

It is well known that the performance of foreign firms compared to domestic companies is superior with respect to employment, wages, and productivity. In this paper we detail the export behaviour of foreign affiliates in the United Kingdom relative to indigenous firms. Our findings show that foreign firms are more likely to export, and when they do so they are more export intensive and overall ...

Strategic breakout in UK telecommunications: the case of Kingston Communications

• The progressive liberalization of the UK telecommunications sector has necessitated a strategic repositioning by its incumbent operators, British Telecommunications (BT) and Kingston Communications (KC), as they face up to increased competition within their traditional market places. • This repositioning has stimulated a process of strategic breakout, a framework derived from the author’s on-...

Utilizing Strategic Management Accounting Techniques in Iranian Firms

The main objective of this article is to describe and explain the utilization of Strategic Management Accounting Techniques (SMATs) in Iranian various firms. For this, a survey was carried out using questionnaires provided for the seventy-five Chief Executive Officers in productive and services firms. Data gathered from respondents about the usage rate of SMATs based on the five-point Likert sc...