The share of Chinese manufacturing imports in U.S. consumption has increased eight-fold between 1993 and 2011, from 1 to over 8 percent. While the literature has documented the pro-competitive price effect of the rising Chinese import competition on U.S. industries, I provide new empirical evidence for a quantitatively larger, indirect effect: for the average manufacturing industry, the increas...

In a recent paper, Powell (2003) studied 20-year performance in 21 industries, using an ordinal performance measure (‘wins’), and the Gini coefficient as a measure of competitive dominance. The findings suggest that firm performance is statistically indistinguishable from performance in non-business domains such as politics, games, sports, and pageants. This paper extends these findings, develo...

This overview of the basics of rate design in network industries should be read in conjunction with Mark Jamison’s, 1997, more comprehensive write-up on rate structure. After describing some of the key concepts, we will examine in some detail the rationale behind rate structures that can reflect incremental costs, while still facilitating the recovery of fixed (often joint or common) costs. In ...

This paper investigates the variation in contagion effect of corporate scandals on peers firms with different corporate governance quality. We find that better corporate governance reduces investors’ uncertainty about a firm’s fundamental value and alleviates the contagion effect of scandals. Specifically, the empirical results show that external governance, ownership structure and external aud...

The fact that information and communication technology (ICT) has a significant impact on industries and single organizations is an already established and well researched issue. Markets are changing – becoming faster, bigger, more standardized as well as segmented, and more competitive. ICT has a considerable impact on nearly all areas of a company’s activities, especially for companies operati...

This paper aims at assessing the supply chain and innovation management in the manufacturing industries in Turkey on an empirical basis. The assessments presented are based on parts of the data and information collected through the execution of the Competitive Strategies and Best Practices Benchmarking Questionnaire in 82 companies from four sectors of the manufacturing industries in Turkey. Re...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been the key driver for the modern service industry to innovate and achieve competitive advantages. In this highly competitive industry, companies actively invest technology to launch innovative services expecting to attract customers or lower cost. Academic and empirical studies have examined first-mover advantages in general industries. Howev...

Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques significantly impact the competitive priority in terms of cost, quality, time, and innovation Lebanese businesses. Changing an organization's operational strategy is highly dependent on top management commitment as changing employees' behavior challenging without cooperation business's senior management. Both descriptive cause-and-effect methods were us...