Using data involving customer–supplier relationships and a large sample of US publicly listed firms, our study documents negative statistically significant relationship between economic policy uncertainty firms’ customer-base concentration. The relation is predominant in firms with higher inventory efficiency those operating competitive, high-R&D, nondurable industries. Customer-base diversific...

Abstract This study empirically investigates the relationship between customer concentration and corporate risk-taking. We find that overall significantly reduces However, varies across different settings. Specifically, negative customer-base risk-taking is only present in more marketized regions, competitive industries, firms with lower market shares, less innovative non-state-owned firms, tho...

Objective: The variables of customer concentration and bank loan contracts can affect corporate finance activities, and customer concentration may increase corporate returns. Methods: Under this study, the relationship between customer concentration and bank loan contracts have been investigated first and then the moderating effect of financial status variables and accounts payable on relation...

according to the importance of customer in competitive environment, especially in banking industry, regarding that the cost of catching (attracting) new customers is several times higher than the cost of keep customer loyal to organization, cause that examining ways of becoming loyal customer to product (goods/ services) has high preference in market research. this research, shows that we can c...

We examine how one industry’s productivity is affected by the IT capital of its customers, and how this effect depends on the industries’ relative concentration. These customer-driven IT spillovers result from customers’ IT investment in various information systems that reduce transaction costs through information sharing and coordination, leading to more efficient production and logistics upst...