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- Draft Bank Law Confirms Tougher Watchdog Powers
- By Huw JonesLONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's financial watchdog will have powers to claw back bank bonuses that breach globally agreed rules on remuneration and force hedge funds to provide data, a draft law published on Thursday showed.The draft law's main provisions were announced by the government on Wednesday and...
- News items 2009-11-19
- A Model Of Vertical Differentiation, Brand Loyalty And Persuasive Advertising
- The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of advertising and quality decisions on price competition in a duopoly setting. Firms are able to differentiate their products vertically and use persuasive advertising to increase consumer brand loyalty. The model predicts that the high quality firm will advertise more...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Market Guided Innovation And Product Development (2004)
- The concept of technological trajectory, recognizes the importance of pure technological improvements, but in addition to that, it emphasizes the importance of other socioeconomic factors such as organisational and institutional factors, which constrain technologies and firms´ development into particular path, with given direction and rate of development. Firms´ knowledge and...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- The Role Of Firm Size In Controlling Output: Decline During The Asian Financial Crisis
- This paper sets out to develop a simplified risk premium model to explain output decline within the economies of Asia in the immediate aftermath of the Asian financial crisis. Firms are allowed to borrow from both domestic and foreign banks, with the firms' debts being loosely constrained at high levels...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Firm Dynamics With Customer Markets
- This paper introduces a customer markets model into a model of firm dynamics. The authors assumed that household preferences are characterized by goods-specific deep habits. This preference modeling implies that firms are faced with demand functions which relate their current demand to past sales. Firms are assumed to be monopolistically...
- White papers 2007-05-21
- Global Sourcing, Technology, And Factor Intensity: Firm-Level Relationships
- This paper empirically examines how technology and capital intensity are related with the firm's global sourcing decision. Firm-level data are derived from a survey covering all manufacturing industries in Japan without any firm-size threshold. Firms are disaggregated by their make-or-buy decision (in-house or outsourcing) and by their choice of sourcing...
- White papers 2007-03-19
- Live Or Let Die?: Alternative Routes To Industry Exit
- Each year around 8 per cent of Swedish manufacturing firms leave an industry. Of the exit routes available, the least likely is firm closure. Firms are more likely to merge, become acquired or switch to a new industry. We investigate the importance of various firm and industry characteristics for the...
- White papers 2007-02-12
- Understanding The Critical Role Of Device Management And Security In Your Business' Mobile Strategy
- In January 2009, Sybase commissioned Forrester Consulting to assess the importance of mobile device management and, in particular, mobile security and the associated issues that keep CXOs up at night. While conducting in-depth interviews with 30 IT and telecom/network decision-makers at North American and Western European companies...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Does Law Need Changing to Protect Company Pensions?
- Questions are being raised if traditional pension plans that companies hold for their retired workers are viable or need refunding. Some critics are even raising the specter that pensioners might get only a fraction of the money due them or nothing at all unless changes are made....
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Pharma Roundup: Pfizer and the Rat, Johnson & Johnson in Europe, and More
- Pfizer's gruesome new anti-counterfeit campaign -- In the U.K., Pfizer has rolled out a new TV ad that warns consumers against the dangers of counterfeit drugs. The nauseating image of a man pulling a rat from his mouth intends to educate consumers about the dangerous substances like rat poison which...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- When Will the "Chicken and Egg" Cycle Hampering Corporate Lending Break?
- A "chicken and egg" conundrum is plaguing credit markets. While banks that get federal bailout money are faulted for not using the funds to make loans to kickstart the economy, hamstrung corporations are not seeking loans. A Federal Reserve study shows that 60 percent of loan officers at banks surveyed...
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- The Forrester Wave: Transportation Management Solutions, Q1 2006
- As global companies look to manage extended supply chains, transportation management is taking center stage. Firms are looking for solutions that offer transportation functionality ranging from procurement to visibility and spanning all transportation modes: ground, air, ocean, and parcel freight. To assess the state of transportation applications and see how...
- Research reports 2006-02-07
- Six Imperatives for the Transition Phase of an Outsourcing Engagement
- Outsourcing has gathered momentum. Firms are now outsourcing fairly complex processes, bundling technology and people along with those processes. These processes are normally in a stable and steady state of performance with the client before outsourcing and, in most cases, reach a similar state eventually at the vendor site. However,...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Heterogeneous Learning and the Targeting of Marketing Communication for New Products
- New product launches are often accompanied by extensive marketing communication campaigns. Firms' allocation decisions for these marketing communication expenditures have two dimensions - across consumers and over time. What makes this problem hard in the case of new products is that consumers are uncertain about the quality of new products...
- White papers 2004-08-15
- Firms Fail to Take Climate Risk Seriously
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - British companies are failing to take the strategic implications of climate change seriously and are missing out on investment opportunities, a study sponsored by three major UK investors said Monday.Firms are addressing the impact of major climate-linked events, but are neglecting to manage incremental changes or...
- News items 2009-11-23
- To Outsource or not to Outsource
- Firms are outsourcing HR services more and more as part of a flexible administrative strategy. Some are enjoying it less while others consider it the best way to go. Learn about the factors that make a difference in these organizations' perception of the benefits of outsourcing. Organizations must weigh the...
- White papers 1999-05-01
- Operational Risk Transfer
- All corporations face risks. Until recently, risks were identified within business units. Now the trend is to analyse risks on an enterprise-wide basis. Risk transfer to the insurance sector has been widely used for many years. Even though operational risks were not always classified in this way, mechanisms to transfer...
- White papers 2003-09-11
- Divestitures And The Liquidity Of The Market For Corporate Assets
- This article deduces that the liquidity of the market for corporate assets plays an important role in explaining whether a firm divests a business segment, which business segment the firm divests, and whether the firm divests a core segment or an unrelated segment. Firms are more likely to divest segments...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Increasing Productivity Through the Internal Transfer of Best Practices
- During the current economic recovery, productivity has been increasing at record rates. Firms are generating more output without increasing staffing. The real engine of productivity now is the ability of firms to leverage the knowledge and technology they have accumulated and continue to accumulate. Knowledge management is the systematic process...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Knowledge Management: The Art Of Enhancing Productivity And Innovation With The Human Resources In Your Organization
- From the executive summary: ‘Knowledge management reflects the shift of corporate enterprises from focusing merely on investment in new forms of technologies to enhance productivity to concentrating on combining all the available resources within an organization in order to become more efficient. Firms are realizing that perhaps the most important...
- White papers 2003-04-01
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