Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily
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regards to the rapidly growing group of online addicted gamers. I have been influenced to write to you after reading a recent article titled ‘What online addiction is doing to our children’ by Anmar Frangoul. The article shared my own opinion that opinion that Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game (MMORPG’s) should be monitored for activity have restrictions for the amount of time played per week to lessen the effects on the current and future gaming society. Games such as World Of Warcraft
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1287/isre.1080.0220 © 2010 INFORMS Technological Frames‚ Organizational Capabilities‚ and IT Use: An Empirical Investigation of Electronic Procurement J. Mack Robinson College of Business‚ Georgia State University‚ Atlanta‚ Georgia 30303‚ amishra@gsu.edu Robert H. Smith School of Business‚ University of Maryland‚ College Park‚ Maryland 20742‚ ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu Abhay Nath Mishra Ritu Agarwal T he process by which organizations incorporate technological innovations into existing routines
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Introduction Online shopping or online retailing is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser. Alternative names are: e-web-store‚ e-shop‚ e-store‚ Internet shop‚ web-shop‚ web-store‚ online store‚ and virtual store. An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or shopping center; the process is called business-to-consumer (B2C) online shopping
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integrative processes‚ many scholars have treated naturalization as a reflection of integration‚ rather than a driver of integration. For that reason‚ many scholars who focus on naturalization as a method to encourage integration struggle with separating countries with high rates of naturalization from countries who are more successful with integrating new
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There are many new and different forms of technological advancements in today’s prisons. The first form is the WANDD‚ a device which is able to detect weapons that inmates are in possession of like the ones that the more violent prisoners often create. An example of a dangerous weapon is a shank. A shank is a knife shaped weapon created out of scrap metal for the blade and the handle is usually a cloth wrapped around the bottom. The second form is PharmaJet‚ a needle free injection system designed
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Scientific and technological progress It’s difficult to overestimate the role of science and technology in our life. They accelerate the development of civilization and help us in our co-operation with nature. Scientists investigate the laws of the universe‚ discover the secrets of nature‚ and apply their knowledge in practice improving the life of people. Let’s compare our life nowadays with the life of people at the beginning of the 20th century. It has changed beyond recognition. Our ancestors
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An Overview of the Digital or Video Gaming Industry A Walk Down the History Lane Not only the words games and gaming are self-explanatory‚ the practice of using games both as a source of entertainment as well as learning is almost inherent to humans and the practice dates back to ancient civilizations as old as 3200 BC. Although‚ games have been used for gambling and learning strategies of war and concepts of ruling for thousands of years‚ the use of video games as a source of entertainment as
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Checkpoint: Technological Advancements in Communication February 23‚ 2013 Dana Yager Candice Dorsey The communication advancements discussed in the article were the use of social computing technologies that are slowly taking place of corporate collaboration applications and databases. Specific terms for a few of these advancements are blog‚ wiki‚ and mashup. One of the newest technologies that was discussed was an interactive spreadsheet software-as-a-service provider called Spreadsheet
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arising challenges faced in the education field. Some literature reviews were done in this paper where we would look into the needs of learners today‚ what and how they learn‚ how ICT could be used in learning‚ the new culture of learning through online learning and virtual classroom‚ how e-learning was accepted among the learners and what were the barriers to ICT implementation in higher education institutions. Introduction Peter and Hong (2011) pointed out that in the past few decades;
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