s teel industries play a key role in the national economy and welfare of the society in many steel manufacturer countries. it is found that manufacturing and consuming of steel products would be a key indicator to measure and evaluate economic and industrial performance of a country. nowadays, countries with the large natural oil and gas resources (e.g. iran) attempt to select an alternative ec...

Most previous studies examining M&As (mergers and acquisitions) have focused on the post-merger integration process. While there been that partially investigated importance of deal completion, we argue firms could learn to increase their completions by leveraging experience from prior successful acquisitions cumulative success reduce completion time; is, time announcement its resolution. To...

Using firm level data from the U.S. steel industry, we find that lobbying for import protection is habit forming. Controlling for firm performance and other factors, past lobbying increases the likelihood of current lobbying in our full sample. Expecting heterogeneity in lobbying behavior among firms, we let an EM algorithm sort our firms into groups with different propensities to lobby. A two-...

ABSTRACT In the past few years, dairy industry has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry of Vietnam. However, the value-added creation among different activities in the value chain of Vietnam dairy sector is distributed unequally. In the production activities, the dairy farmers gain low value-added rate due to high input cost. Whereas the processing activities,...

Objective – This article aims to preliminarily examine and summarize the impact of COVID-19 on airline business briefly investigate how airlines respond. Methodology/Technique The researchers synthesize data information collected from industry organizations' reports related academic literature. A traditional narrative literature review was implemented impacts business. Findings results show tha...

Family firms are the most prevalent form of economic organization in world, but despite their reputation for resilience and agility, many them facing enormous challenges due to Covid-19 pandemic. In this essay, we examine how pressures respond health emergency affecting ability family preserve socioemotional wealth (SEW). addition, also provide implications business research a post-Covid world....

Remarkably little advice has been offered in the way of helping management develop appropriate strategies to cope with different forms of uncertainty. In an effort to fill this gap, the present article combines extant research from economics and strategy to identify two broad classes of uncertainty and the generic strategies that are appropriate to handle each class of uncertainty. We point out...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how information technology affects traditional enterprise management in the era and can be more effectively applied management. Methodology: This uses literature research, logical summaries VOSviewer analyse importance business opportunities challenges it presents. As a result, different companies need adapt their development strategies age gain an edge c...

We investigate the association between business strategy and firm-level tournament incentives in China find that is associated with positively. further this positive relationship manifests itself local, but not central, state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In addition, we also offer some evidence foreign institutional investors play a moderating role on incentives. Our study fills gap existing liter...

Article history: Received 29 August 2011 Received in revised form 20 September 2012 Accepted 11 December 2012 Available online 20 December 2012 Using the firm-level census data, this paper re-estimated the total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in China's iron and steel industry and examined its potential determinants over the period 1998–2007. To deal with the “endogenous input” problem, we ...