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Mutual Forbearance Among Multimarket Firms: A Behavioral Approach To Tacit Cooperation, John Stephan Dec 2012

Mutual Forbearance Among Multimarket Firms: A Behavioral Approach To Tacit Cooperation, John Stephan

John Stephan

Emerging empirical evidence has noted that multimarket firms may not always behave in
ways that are consistent with their multimarket positions. Assuming multimarket ties
between firms exists that are sufficient to permit tacit agreement among them to refrain
from aggressive competition, we describe how additional factors are likely to affect the
decision of managers of multimarket firms to abide by such an agreement. In particular,
we focus on factors that are likely to make the negative consequences of violating a tacit
agreement of mutual forbearance more salient and those that encourage managers to
direct their firms to behave in more …

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Exiting Prematurely? #11;How Ceos Perceive Multimarket Competition And Exit Decisions, John Stephan Aug 2012

Exiting Prematurely? #11;How Ceos Perceive Multimarket Competition And Exit Decisions, John Stephan

John Stephan

Studies of multimarket competition have developed fairly fine-grained depictions of some firm behaviors when these firms are embedded in a web of multimarket contacts. For other behaviors, the picture is not as clear. This paper looks at the exit decisions of multimarket competitors to try to resolve the discrepancies that have arisen across studies that have examined exit decisions within a multimarket context. In particular, prior studies have postulated and found both negative linear relationships between increasing multimarket contact and the likelihood of a firm exiting a particular market, and curvilinear relationships, where the likelihood of exit first increases with …

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Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers' Demands (Vol. 11), Anna Ujwary-Gil Dec 2011

Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers' Demands (Vol. 11), Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

The monograph focuses attention on the description and analysis of new phenomena and processes for commercial and non-commercial organizations. Valid conditions are pointed out for the functioning of both commercial and non-commercial organizations and an attempt is made to explain their impact on these organizations. The analysis also examines the strategies used by organizations in the face of fierce competition and increasing consumer demands in their effort to gain and maintain a competitive edge. This case study below is segmented into four areas of interest: • commercial and non-commercial organizations as an object of research, • commercial and non-commercial organizations …

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Southeast Asian Culture, Human Development, And Business, Patrick Murphy, H. Lavan Dec 2006

Southeast Asian Culture, Human Development, And Business, Patrick Murphy, H. Lavan

Patrick J. Murphy

Competition and entrepreneurship are driving forces in the development of economic systems. They create jobs, new opportunities to generate value, and lead to the fulfillment of personal career and life goals. As such, it is important to understand the basic economic and cultural factors that influence these activities in developing economies. We undertook a series of analyses in an examination of a heterogeneous sample of economic zones in Southeast Asia. Results illustrate relations between national culture, human development, and business and growth competitiveness. Implications hold that human development and power distance are enablers of entrepreneurial activities in these cultural and …

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