dabznal心gement 1991 Vol. 17 No. 1 99-120 ‚ ‚ ‚ Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage JayBarney 海’xas A&M University Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management‚ Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are heterogeneously distributed across firms and that these d，胡erences are stable over time‚ this article examines the link betweenfirm resources and sustained conψeti tive advantag，ι
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Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com
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long-run growth of the country. More and more firms are realizing the importance of innovation to gain competitive advantage. Accordingly‚ they are engaging themselves in various innovative activities‚ ranging from manufacturing processes‚ product improvement‚ and brand building initiatives to customer satisfaction. Today‚ business environment has become very dynamic with more demanding customers and intense market competition. To meet this‚ firms are creating new products‚ solutions and services that provide
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Why Do Some Firms Become Global? 1. Introduction More and more companies all over the world have joined the army of firms that are running globally. Reasons of companies becoming increasingly international can vary‚while the ultimate goal of going global turns out to be growth and expansion of the company. No matter whether a firm employs staff from international labour market or looks for exploration of new markets overseas‚ corresponding strategies can contribute a great deal to diversification
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Chapter 6: “What Do Firms Try to Maximize‚ if Anything?” Introduction Do firms really maximize profit? This question has been under debate since the 1940s and 1950s‚ when a wide number of mainstream neoclassical economists defended the assumption against a group of institutional economists that questioned the assumption as the norm in the industry. On the side of the neoclassical economists were Fritz Machlup and Milton Friedman‚ with institutional economists Richard A. Lester and Garnder C
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University Section I: Article Summary In the article ‘Do Gay-Friendly Corporate Policies Enhance Firm Performance?’ the potential outcomes of a firm adopting gay-friendly policies‚ such as anti-discrimination policies and the extension of benefits to couples‚ are studied. When the results of the study were assessed‚ it was found that the adoption of gay-friendly policies had improved the studied firms in multiple ways. It was observed that more employees were being recruited‚ employees were staying
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Major changes in rules and regulations Since the Enron collapsed an array of new laws and regulations has been adopted to tighten corporate oversight. US offices were the first one to come out and implement the policies. Almost all of the firms had their headquarters in the US and they replicated their headquarters policies to a good extend in other offices around the world. Also other governments and regulatory bodies around the world came out with their country specific rules and regulations which
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RESEARCH TOPIC: Impact of Fixed Asset on Firm Profitability ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to look at the impact of fixed asset on firm profitability textile‚ cement and sugar sector in Pakistan. The study is based on sample of three sectors (sugar‚ cement‚ and textile) over five year period from 2010 to 2014.We used regression analysis method to show the impact of fixed asset on firm profitability. The past research shows that investment on non current asset does not have strong impact on corporation
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several forms. In a firm commitment agreement‚ the bank acts as an underwriter by purchasing the securities from the issuer at a mutually agreed price with a view of reselling them to the public at a margin. For the issuer‚ it is the safest but the most expensive type of agreement. It is the safest because the underwriter takes the risk of sale. It is expensive because the risk is reflected in the potentially lower sale price‚ since the underwriter seeks to make around 7% profit from the spread
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Chapter 2 Management‚ Proponents‚ Personal and Organization Management Complements and Supporting Professional Firms Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the registration of the partnership.The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for the registration of the product‚ business name‚ trademark‚ trade name‚ business logo and product logo. Then the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for product testing‚ laboratory experimentation and some other test And the Bureau of Food And Drugs
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