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Business Groups and Employment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Using a newly assembled 50-country firm-level database spanning 19 years, we document a bright side for employees of business group–affiliated firms: less pronounced fluctuations in employment than unaffiliated firms in response to macroeconomic shocks.
Mara Faccio, William J. O'Brien
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IT evaluation in business groups

Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2013
Ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of IT is a substantial aim of IT evaluation which is part of the strategic IT management. Weighing costs and benefits of IT is per se a complex and difficult process but gets even more challenging in the context of business groups.
Florian Hamel, Thomas Herz, Falk Uebernickel, Walter Brenner   +3 more
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Business Groups in Singapore

, 2010
A. Colpan, T.
Lai Si Tsui‐Auch, Toru Yoshikawa
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Business Groups

2002
Abstract This chapter shows how British trading companies built extensive and complex business groups to facilitate diversification. They employed a variety of institutional and contractual modes—including contracts, equity, debt, cross‐directorships, and repeated trading transactions—and inside them, there were flows of managerial ...
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Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups

2007
In this book the authors show that any useful investigation of organization and strategies of firms needs to take the business group as the basic unit of analysis. This premise underpins their analysis of the impact of two structural variables - spatial agglomeration and technology - on firm strategy and organization.
CAINELLI, GIULIO, IACOBUCCI D.
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Cooperation by Business Groups

Journal of Marketing, 1937
CONSIDERATION will be given only to the cooperative efforts in business that are comparable to cooperation by consumers. The more important types of cooperative institutions in business which meet this specification are trade associations and institutes, chambers of commerce, mutual insurance companies, interchange credit bureaus, and many cooperative ...
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Business groups and their types

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2006
We clarify what business groups are and analyze their various types. We first distinguish business groups from other types of firm networks based on the strategic relationships among companies; business groups are defined as those networks that exhibit unrelated diversification under common ownership.
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