A STRATEGIC RATIONALE FOR CAPTIVE SUPPLIES [PDF]
Partial backward integration is prevalent in many agricultural and natural resource processing industries. A strategic rationale for partial backward integration is developed for a dominant firm with a competitive fringe purchasing from competitive input
Burton, Diana M., Love, H. Alan
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Symbolic integration of a class of algebraic functions [PDF]
An algorithm is presented for the symbolic integration of a class of algebraic functions. This class consists of functions made up of rational expressions of an integration variable x and square roots of polynomials, trigonometric and hyperbolic ...
Ng, E. W.
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Regional Integration and Internal Economic Geography - an Empirical Evaluation with Portuguese Data [PDF]
The effects of the reduction of international trade costs on the internal economic geography of each country have been very scarcely studied in empirical terms.
Maria Paula Fontoura, Nuno Crespo
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The Impact of Council’s Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU [PDF]
This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between ...
Mika Widgrén
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Market Expansion [PDF]
We have identified three dimensions of market expansion: the growth of market oriented production and trade, internal and external market integration and the creation of virtual markets. These three processes can occur side by side and are connected with
Evers, Hans-Dieter, Gerke, Solvay
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Emergence of ERPII Characteristics within an ERP integration context [PDF]
, 2005 It is widely accepted that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can provide organizations with efficiency and productivity gains, in terms of aggregating and streamlining internal business processes.
Irani, Z, Sharif, A M
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The problem of transition and reintegration of East and Central Europe: conceptual remarks and empirical problems [PDF]
: Eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain economic and political cleavages are still visible in Europe. With respect to social and economic transition the saliency of the problems seem to increase, as the efforts to solve the ...
Andreas P. Cornett
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Business Process Risk Management, Compliance and Internal Control: A Research Agenda [PDF]
Integration of risk management and management control is emerging as an important area in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and with ongoing development of frameworks such as the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework from the Committee of ...
Best, Peter +3 more
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Djibouti: changing influence in the Horn's strategic hub [PDF]
, 2013 Change in Djibouti’s economic and strategic options has been driven by four factors: the Ethiopian–Eritrean war of 1998–2000, the impact of Ethiopia's economic transformation and growth upon trade; shifts in US strategy since 9/11, and the upsurge in ...
Styan, David
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Fiscal system and fiscal relations in the European Union: political restraints and alternative approach to public finance [PDF]
Development of the European integration through the European Union (EU) considers not only strengthening integration from the economic aspect (internal market). It also considers the political aspect of the integration i.e.
Hrvoje Šimović
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