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Interfirm Cooperation and Customer Orientation [PDF]
This article examines the implications of interfirm cooperation for a firm's level of customer orientation. Drawing on research in marketing, organizational theory, and economics, the authors suggest that firms engaged in cooperative alliances with competitors will become less customer oriented over time.
Aric Rindfleisch, Christine Moorman
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Cooperative dynamics of loyal customers in queueing networks [PDF]
We consider queueing networks (QN) with feedback loops roamed by "intelligent" agents, able to select their routing on the basis of their measured waiting times at the QN nodes. This is an idealized model to discuss the dynamics of customers who stay loyal to a service supplier, provided their service time remains below a critical threshold.
Gallay, Olivier, Hongler, Max-Olivier
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Multilateral tariff cooperation during the formation of customs unions [PDF]
Abstract We study the implications of customs-union formation for multilateral tariff cooperation. We model cooperation in multilateral trade policy as self-enforcing, in that it involves balancing the current gains from deviating unilaterally from an agreed-upon trade policy against the future losses from forfeiting the benefits of multilateral ...
Kyle Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger
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Challenges and opportunities of the China – Gulf Cooperation Council Free Trade Agreement [PDF]
The free trade agreement between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (“the GCC”) currently under negotiation is due to become China’s first comprehensive trade and investment agreement with a supranational customs union.
Villalta Puig, Gonzalo +1 more
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Optimal Interest Rates in Cooperative Banks with Non-member Customers [PDF]
Previous attempts to understand the functioning of cooperative banks have often considered them as being similar to credit unions. However, we argue that credit unions are only a subset of co-operative banks and the models used to describe their behavior cannot be generalize to all co-operative banks. There is an important factor that characterizes the
Catturani, Ivana +1 more
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Напрями та перспективи конвергенції митних відносин у глобальному просторі [PDF]
Розглянуто особливості розвитку митних відносин, що проявляються в процесі економічного співробітництва країн в умовах глобальних трансформацій, наведено їх класифікацію.
Іващук, Ірина Олегівна
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Trade facilitation in developing countries [PDF]
Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation.
Milner, Chris +2 more
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<p>Cooperatives have provided quality service for their members but the steps taken by cooperatives for members are not very easy, over time it has provided the best service benefits for members, and some members disagree with providing services and some agree to give service.
Ricky Yudhatama +2 more
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United States-Canada Trade and Economic Relationship: Prospects and Challenges [PDF]
[Excerpt] The terrorist attacks of 2001 focused attention on the U.S.-Canadian border. Several bilateral initiatives have been undertaken to minimize disruption to commerce from added border security.
Fergusson, Ian F
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Ukraine’s Exports as a Global Challenge for Its Future [PDF]
Exports are critical for the highly open Ukrainian economy which is characterized by the large trade deficit. Since independence the major consumers of the Ukrainian products have been the CIS and the EU. Conflict with Russia
Sardak, Sergii
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