Because corporate diversification and organization co-evolve, diversification discounts, which are widely reported in the literature, can be caused by organizational structure, rather than by the industrial scope of the firm. The paper examines this possibility based on a large sample of Japanese firms for which the legal (parent-subsidiary) structure of the organization is easily observable. I...

with the rapid changes in international environments, it's very hard to sustain the corporate competitive advantage. knowing the competitive priorities leads the managers to a better understanding of corporate strategies in the future. the globalization pressure and the rapid changes in local markets have affected the firms' competitive advantages. having a clear understanding of comp...

this paper investigates the effects of advertising, profitability, concentration and research & development on the market share of iranian great food and beverage industries during the period of 2000-2011. for this purpose, we used the more than 50 employee's statistics of industrial 4- digit firms and panel data technique for estimating the model. the main results of this paper reveal that, th...

environmental protection has become one of the main concerns in developed economies, which is why an increasing degree of commitment in the field is required from all public and private bodies. environmental protection in firms must cease to be a secondary, barely profitable objective, involving the performance of sporadic remedial actions, and become just one more element of their organization...

This paper test the hypothesis that capital market imperfections constrained the growth of British firms during the Industrial Revolution. Using data on the cost structure of a representative British cotton manufacturer during the 1798 to 1827 period, this paper shows that the scale of operation was too small. The findings suggests that industrialization could have proceeded more rapidly if fir...

The paper looks at the macrowonornic implications of some recent dwelopmetlts in the theory of industrial organization. In a Kalwkian model, firms are assumed IO invest heavily early in the procluct lift cycle, thus creating dective &mad. Conwrsely, it is assumed that late in the product life cyde firms honrd, waiting for new prodrwts in which to invest. IJndcr reasonable conditions, the rates ...

Article history: Received 29 July 2005 Received in revised form 16 June 2006 Accepted 6 July 2006 Available online 27 October 2006 This article examines the role of industrial firms' market orientation as a moderator of the economic–ecologic conflict. Specifically, the authors consider the effect of industrial firms’ market orientation on perceptions of the environmental pressure exerted by sta...

Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a...

Over the past decade, one of the major policy prescriptions for SME development has centred on the benefits of clustering and the potential for small enterprises to achieve economies of scale and scope through co-operation at the local level. The considerable literature on industrial districts and small firm clusters has focused on the dynamism of small firms arising from linkages between firms...

As the environmental changing violently, almost all enterprises can’t survive without other enterprises’ cooperation. Many firms have tied with each other and formed an industrial chain structure relationship aggressively called as ‘Supply Chain Relationship’. Therefore, many enterprises had striving for industrial stream integration. With these integration processes, may go through some method...