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The Real Option Approach applied on Foreign Direct Investment Scenarios
The Real Option Approach (ROA) has been put forth as the answer to the problem of valuing manager flexibility and project risk within the framework of capital budgeting. Within this dissertation the ROA is used on one of the riskiest of corporate ventures particularly foreign direct investment. The 1st two ...
Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a comprehensive database useful for evaluating the patenting effects on pharmaceutical innovations for 26 countries that established ...
Strong connection of innovative actors within a local network is often thought to increase the region-specific knowledge-stock, resulting in a comparative advantage. Nevertheless, it might ...
By privatizing state-owned monopolies and deregulating whole industries, governments the world over have brought market forces to bear on electricity, telecommunications, and other economic activities ...
The practice of dynamic pricing, so typical of low cost carriers, is generally regarded as a form of price discrimination between leisure and business travellers ...
Culture change is difficult and time consuming because "culture" is rooted in the collective history of an organization, and because so much of it is ...
Objectives are pre-determined goals to which individual or team activity within an corporation is directed. Objectives of HRM are affected by business objectives and individual ...
Project management has become a natural way of conducting activities in companies. The aim is continuous improvement in project performance. The way knowledge is managed ...
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of imports on product and labour markets for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2005. In doing so, it ...
We analyze the way a multinational’s approach to centralize or de-centralize its decision structure is impacted by country tax differentials. Within a simple model which ...
Nash equilibrium (henceforth NE) is the most widely used equilibrium concept in game theory. Though a large and growing number of experimental studies indicate its ...
Quality management can be used to support strategically the management of innovation. Tools in strategic quality management can be useful in: creating the organizational conditions ...
This paper basically adopts a ‘technology gap’ approach for explaining international export specialisation. Within this broad label there has been one tradition which has applied ...
This report studies Uganda's external debt problem. Just like several countries in the sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda is a seriously indebted low-income country. Uganda's total debt ...