This paper develops a theory which investigates the two-way relationship between the internaI organization of the firm and market competition.We introduce heterogenous firms with internal hierarchies in a Knlgman (1980) ...

Several articles analyze the life cycle of firms and identify throughout time that their performance has an inverted U shape. Firms achieve an optimal level and, thereafter, decline due to lack of flexibility and difficulties ...

GLOVER, Nasreem. Elite Firm Combinations: An Exploratory Study on Merger Strategy & the Effect of Firm Culture. This addresses the strategic goals elite firms intend to satisfy by acquiring other firms, and the threat to ...

We propose several new metrics to describe the complex ownership structure of business groups, and provide simple formulas and algorithms to compute these metrics. We use these measures to describe in detail the ownership ...

We analyze the extent to which firm size determines the relationship between growth opportunities and bank debt in the Chilean corporate sector. Using generalized method of moments (GMM) system estimator techniques in ...

The aim of this article is to analyze the factors related to the early internationalization of new firms in Chile. We grouped the internationalization driver factors into three categories: individual, organizational, and ...

The recent episodes of global financial crises have had significant effects on firms financial decisions and profitability, as well as on their investment and growth. Although it is widely accepted that financial crises ...

We study the statistical distribution of firm size for USA and Brazilian publicly traded firms through the Zipf plot technique. Sale size is used to measure firm size. The Brazilian firm size distribution is given by a ...