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- Norwegian survey software provider FIRM signs agreement with Aker ASA
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-29 January 2007-Norwegian survey software provider FIRM signs agreement with Aker ASAC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Norwegian market survey and research software provider Future Information Research Management ASA FIRM said on Monday (29 January) that it has signed an agreement with the Norwegian industrial holding group...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- How to Execute a Merger
- Planning and brokering an M&A deal is the easy part. It's after the ink is dry that the real work begins. Here's how to navigate this critical period in five key steps. Set Expectations GOAL: Ensure...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Fouad ElNaggar: Investing in Transformational Companies
- Fouad ElNaggar is a Principal with Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in high-tech start-ups, which have included Netflix, Tivo and Juniper Networks. ElNaggar talks about what kinds of companies he seeks to help and the misconceptions of venture capitalists.
- Videos 2008-04-18
- Jennifer Happillon: Secrets of Executive Search
- In the last 10 years, Jennifer Happillon has executed senior-level executive and CEO searches for the likes of Disney, HBO and Yahoo. The firm she works for, Morgan Samuels Company, is one of the top twenty executive search firms in the U.S. Here, she explains how to find the...
- Videos 2007-10-08
- Supply Chain Relationships And Contracts: The Impact Of Repeated Interaction
- Consider a firm developing an innovative product. Due to market pressures, production must begin soon after the product development effort is complete, which requires that an upstream supplier invest in capacity while the design of the product and production process are in flux. Because the product is ill-defined at this...
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Revenue Management & Delay Tactics For Competing Service Providers In Time-Sensitive Markets With Private Information
- How should competing firms design their price-scheduling mechanisms to maximize revenues from heterogeneous time-sensitive customers with private information about their value of service and delay tolerance? This question is considered for duopoly firms, modeled as queueing systems, which serve two customer types. Price-delay is studied equilibria in this setting, particularly...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Industrial Partnerships With A Multi-Utilities Firm
- This paper discusses how competitiveness could be enhanced through a close partnership with an integrated multi-utilities firm, aimed at improving energetic efficiency, reduce polluting emissions, and thereby cut costs. This case describes how PSA, a car manufacturer, turned the environmental issue into a competitive advantage by externalising to Veolia, a...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- On The Grouping Of Tasks Into Firms: Make-Or-Buy With Interdependent Parts
- A common element in many classical theories of the firm is that the inefficiencies of markets increase with the frequency of transactions, while the costs of integration are more or less fixed. This paper examines a similar but slightly different proposition: that it is more attractive to integrate a set...
- White papers 2007-04-20
- Product Development Using An Integrated Framework
- Using both an integrated approach to product development and aligning the supply chain strategy and drivers are crucial to the success of a firm. Both help the firm to produce products that meet the needs of the customer, while making sure that the development process flows smoothly and costs are...
- White papers 2005-07-12
- Asymmetry In Procurement Auctions: Evidence From Snow Removal Contracts
- Differences in cost efficiency and productivity across firms may introduce asymmetries in procurement auctions. Relying on a structural approach, this paper investigates potential asymmetry among firms bidding for snow removal contracts in Montreal Canada. The empirical results show that firms located in close proximity have a cost advantage relative to...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Growing R&D Collaboration Of Japanese Firms And Policy Implications For Reforming National Innovation System
- Japan's innovation system is often characterized as one dominated by in-house R&D by large firms, but recently, more and more firms are involved in R&D collaborations due to the vigorous international innovation competitions and the increasing complexity of R&D. This paper examines the role of SMEs in this such change,...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study Of Search Behavior And New Product Introduction
- The publisher examines how firms search, i.e., solve problems, to create new products. Organizational learning research argues that firms position themselves on a uni-dimensional search space that spans a spectrum from local to distant search. Their findings in the global robotics industry suggest that firms' search efforts actually vary across...
- White papers 2003-11-28
- Can't Block, Must Run: Small Firms And Appropriability
- This empirical study examines small firms' strategies towards appropriating the returns to their investments in innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative samples of firms. First, few of the smallest firms appear to benefit from patenting. Even within this...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Why Do Some Firms Contract Out Production?
- This paper examines which factors determine outsourcing decision using firm-level data for Spanish manufacturing industries. Outsourcing is measured as the manufacture of custom-made finished products or parts and components which are been contracted out to third parties. Moreover, we distinguish whether the firm provides the materials to the independent firm...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Understanding Strategic Bidding In Multi-Unit Auctions
- This paper examines the bidding behavior of firms competing in the newly created spot market for electricity in Texas, where electricity generating firms submit hourly supply schedules to sell power. The publisher characterizes an equilibrium model of bidding into this market and use detailed firm-level data on bids and marginal...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Exploiting The Full Potential Of After-Sales Market
- A vast majority of high-tech firms managed to grow successfully during the recent economic downturn by developing their after-sales services. In the high-technology sector, more than any other industry, after-sales activity, that is, supplying spare parts and providing preventive and reactive maintenance for the installed base of customers, is very...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Congratulations On Expansion
- Use this template to congratulate the firm for their expansion. It praise the success achieved by the firm. User can modify it as per requirement.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Request Reference From Firm For Individual
- This is a template for a formal request to a concerned firm for the reference of an individual who is either an associate or customer of that firm.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Request Reference From Firm For Firm
- Use this template to requesting any firm for the reference for any other firm.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Learning, Product Innovation And Firm Heterogeneity In Tanzania
- Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming, this paper sheds light on the various sources as of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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