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International entrepreneurship research during the last decade: a review

A major contribution of the international entrepreneurship (IE) research field is that it has enhanced our understanding of the marketing challenges early internationalising firms face when they compete in constantly changing foreign markets. During the past decade, IE-research has, moreover, gone from focusing on the early internationalisation of firms to investigate the entrepreneurial processes of new business creation in foreign markets. However, ambiguity still exists regarding the level of analysis that ought to guide this new line of research. This article contributes by increasing our knowledge about the recent development in the international entrepreneurship research field by reviewing empirical studies performed between 2003 and 2011. The review focuses on the ontological perspectives used as well as the methods and theories that are adopted in the studies. Based on this review, the article contributes with a discussion about the evolution of the international entrepreneurship research field.
Analysis of ferroresonant overvoltages at Maanshan Nuclear Power Station in Taiwan

The "318 Blackout Incident" at the Maanshan Nuclear Power Station on March 18, 2001, is considered to be the most serious event over the 24-year history of nuclear power generation in Taiwan. This paper simulates a special overvoltage phenomenon that occurred 4 h before the blackout event, which could have caused the incident. The simulation results almost coincide closely with the actual conditions recorded. We found two major low-frequency and ferroresonant overvoltages caused by the motors which acted as generators when they lost power supply, interacting with power-line capacitance and power transformers. Since overvoltages were present for a short period, the breaker insulation did not break down immediately but the defects were accumulated. A blackout eventually occurred 4 h later, when the power supplied to the 4.16-kV essential bus A changed over from the 161-kV system to the 345-kV system, due to damage in the incoming breaker insulation.
A 150 MHz bandwidth continuous-time ΔΣ modulator in 28 nm CMOS with DAC calibration

This paper presents transistor-level design of a 150 MHz bandwidth continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ modulator in a 0.85 V 28 nm CMOS process. Architectural-level design tradeoff for the high bandwidth requirement is discussed. A stand-alone DAC calibration scheme that suits the high-speed modulator is proposed for linearization. Simulation results show that the modulator achieves signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 71 dB and spur-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 90 dB.
At the Olympics, everything is a performance issue

Abstract For the great majority of sports, the performance of an athlete at the Olympic Games is considered an ultimate moment of the athletic career. Making the team or winning an Olympic medal can change an athlete's entire future. At the Olympic Games, everything is a performance issue. The pressure and reality of the outcome also changes the work of the sport psychologist. This article describes the types of issues that arise at the games and how the sport psychologist can handle them. The issues faced by the United States athletes include clinical issues, adjustment to external factors, interpersonal conflicts, distraction at the Games, and performance pressure. These issues emphasize the important role of the sport psychologist as a key resource to make an impact on performance. The article then describes the challenges and services of the Sport Psychology Department of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). Multiple‐sport programs and products were written and produced in order to deliver mental training manuals and educate players across sports. Individual Team Service Programs were designed to be in place in the years before the Olympic Games. The article concludes that the sport psychologist must be ready for everything, and success is helping athletes and coaches prevent the problems from becoming critical. After the games, the effectiveness of the services has been consistently rated by athletes and coaches as having a major positive impact on individual and team performances at the Games
Comparative research of motivations across different festival products

Purpose – The study has three objectives. The first objective of this paper is to investigate the underlying dimensions of motivation for attending an international festival in Turkey and whether motivation will vary across six different festival products (symphony, rock, world music, dance, ballet, and theater). The second purpose is to understand how festival attendees perceive the socio‐economic impacts of the festival and how these perceived impacts vary across different festival attendee groups. Finally, the study examines the overall satisfaction of festival attendees with respect to different festival products.Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data was collected by way of self‐administered questionnaires to obtain perceptions and motivations of 523 attendees in Eskisehir International Festival.Findings – The results showed that there were significant differences in motivation among attendees from six different festival products. Duncan's multiple‐range tests were performed to further exam.
Efficiency and Robustness of eBay-like Online Feedback Mechanisms in Environments with Moral Hazard

This paper o ers a systematic exploration of online feedback mechanism design issues in trading environments with imperfect monitoring of a seller's e ort level and two possible transaction outcomes (corresponding to high and low quality respectively), one of which has no value to buyers. The objective of feedback mechanisms in such settings is to induce sellers to exert high e ort and, therefore, to maximize the probability of high quality outcomes. I study a practically signi cant family of mechanisms that resemble the one used by online auction house eBay. These eBay-like mechanisms solicit ratings of transaction outcomes as either positive or negative and publish the sums of ratings posted by buyers on a seller during the N most recent periods. My analysis nds that eBay-like mechanisms can induce high average levels of cooperation that remain stable over time. Surprisingly, their e ciency cannot be improved by summarizing larger numbers of ratings or by publishing a seller's detailed feedback history. I further examine the robustness of these mechanisms to incorrect or incomplete feedback as well as to strategic changes of online identities. The theoretical outcomes predicted by this paper are consistent with empirical observations and o er new, theory-backed, explanations to hitherto poorly understood phenomena such as the remarkably low fraction of negative feedback on eBay. Finally, they provide concrete suggestions on how eBay's current mechanism can be improved.
Party Competition and Party System Change

A proper understanding of party system change demands a dynamic theory of party competition. This should integrate accounts of competition in the legislative party system, in particular coalition formation, with accounts of competition in the electoral party system, in particular vote maximization. Some of the implications of integrating the two facets of party competition are explored, with special attention to endogeneous changes in party systems produced as part of the process of competition. Such changes may operate in different directions in different parts of the system and the consequent damping effect may contribute to the relative stability of party systems.
Sources of Candidate Success in Gubernatorial Elections, 1910-1970

A NUMBER OF RECENT ATTEMPTS have been made to construct statistical models for predicting election outcomes. Such models have been applied to elections in various settings, though in the American context they have been limited mainly to elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency. ' The present study is an attempt to apply some variations of these models to gubernatorial elections in the United States in the period from 1910 to 1970. The questions that will be posed derive mainly from the findings of some recent studies which suggest that the American
Mating-type control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: isolation and characterization of mutants defective in repression by a1-alpha 2

The alpha 2 protein, the product of the MAT alpha 2 cistron, represses various genes specific to the a mating type (alpha 2 repression), and when combined with the MATa1 gene product, it represses MAT alpha 1 and various haploid-specific genes (a1-alpha 2 repression). One target of a1-alpha 2 repression is RME1, which is a negative regulator of a/alpha-specific genes. We have isolated 13 recessive mutants whose a1-alpha 2 repression is defective but which retain alpha 2 repression in a genetic background of ho MATa HML alpha HMRa sir3 or ho MAT alpha HMRa HMRa sir3. These mutations can be divided into three different classes. One class contains a missense mutation, designated hml alpha 2-102, in the alpha 2 cistron of HML, and another class contains two mat alpha 2-202, in the MAT alpha locus. These three mutants each have an amino acid substitution of tyrosine or acid substitution of tyrosine or phenylalanine for cysteine at the 33rd codon from the translation initiation codon in the alpha 2 cistron of HML alpha or MAT alpha. The remaining 10 mutants make up the third class and form a single complementation group, having mutations designated aar1 (a1-alpha 2 repression), at a gene other than MAT, HML, HMR, RME1, or the four SIR genes. Although a diploid cell homozygous for the aarl and sir3 mutations and for the MATa, HML alpha, and HMRa alleles showed alpha mating type, it could sporulate and gave rise to asci containing four alpha mating-type spores. These facts indicate that the domain for alpha2 repression is separable from that for a1-alpha2 protein interaction or complex formation in the alpha2 protein and that an additional regulation gene, AAR1, is associated with the a1-alpha2 repression of the alpha1 cistron and haploid-specific genes.
Are All Security Analysts Equal

We examine the extent to which security analysts are homogeneous in their effect on firm valuation as measured by Tobin's "Q". Earlier research documents a significant and positive relation between analyst coverage and firm valuation. We identify three classes of equity analysts and examine their differential effect on firm valuation associated with their coverage and their information production. We find that equity analysts are not homogeneous in their effect on firm valuation. The presence of analysts at national securities firms have the strongest effect on firm valuation followed by analysts at regional securities firms and finally analysts at nonbrokerage, or research, firms. We attribute this result to the differential monitoring and information dissemination function rendered by the analysts. Information produced by analysts, however, does not share the same credibility. Specifically, we find brokerage firms' buy recommendations are discounted by the market and have a weak effect on firm valuation. The results can be supported by arguments that brokerage firm analysts' recommendations are contaminated by their firms' investment banking relations with corporations. The Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association.
Retail demand management: Forecasting, assortment planning and pricing

In the first part of the dissertation, we focus on the retailer's problem of forecasting demand for products in a category (including those that they have never carried before), optimizing the selected assortment, and customizing the assortment by store to maximize chain-wide revenues or profits. We develop algorithms for demand forecasting and assortment optimization, and demonstrate their use in practical applications. In the second part, we study the sensitivity of the optimal assortment to the underlying assumptions made about demand, substitution and inventory. In particular, we explore the impact of choice model mis-specification and ignoring stock-outs on the optimal profits. We develop bounds on the optimality gap in terms of demand variability, in-stock rate and consumer heterogeneity. Understanding this sensitivity is key to developing more robust approaches to assortment optimization. In the third and final part of the dissertation, we study how the seat value perceived by consumers attending an event in a stadium, depends on the location of their seat relative to the field. We develop a measure of seat value, called the Seat Value Index (SVI), and relate it to seat location and consumer characteristics. We apply our methodology to a proprietary dataset collected by a professional baseball franchise in Japan. Based on the observed heterogeneity in SVI, we provide segment-specific pricing recommendations to achieve a service level objective.
How dependent are the rural poor on the employment guarantee scheme in India

An analysis of the ICRISAT data for two villages in the Indian state of Maharashtra points to mistargeting of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS). There was a marked deterioration in it over the period 1979–89, reflected in not just a larger concentration of the more affluent among the EGS participants but also their much larger gains from participating in this scheme. Nevertheless, a large subset of the chronically poor depended heavily on EGS as an additional source of income, with significant welfare gains, during 1979–84. But a large subset — especially of relatively low income participants ‐ also withdrew from EGS when overall economic conditions improved. Besides, EGS earnings varied consistently with economic conditions. Although the present analysis raises some concerns about the mistargeting of EGS and, in this context, about the design and implementation of this scheme, the presumption that such public support makes the poor perpetually dependent on it seems somewhat exaggerated, if not mistaken.
Industry Influence on Financial Structure

Dr. Scott is Associate Professor of Finance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and received his PhD from the University of Florida. He is the author and coauthor of articles that have appeared in several journals, among them the Summer 1972 issue of Financial Management [7], Engineering Economist, and the Journal of Business Research. He currently serves as President of the Southern Finance Association and is an Associate Editor of Financial Management. He was previously employed as a cost analyst with the Ford Motor Company and MasseyFerguson, Ltd. Dr. Martin is Assistant Professor of Finance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and received his DBA from Texas Tech University. He has coauthored articles in the Journal of Business, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Employer brand management as boundary‐work: a grounded theory analysis of employer brand managers' narrative accounts

This article aims a spotlight at the relatively new and increasingly significant organisational role of employer brand managers. Based on a grounded theory analysis of employer brand managers' descriptions of their work, practices of creating, controlling, promoting, protecting and policing an ideal employer brand are identified as core dimensions of their narrative accounts. The specific contents of these activities present employer brand managers' work as an ongoing process of demarcation with regard to who is allowed to contribute to the employer brand's contents, along with what information and which interpretations and practices are to be considered a valid, legitimate part of the employer brand. Based on these findings, the theoretical perspective of boundary-work is applied to further explore organisational contexts of employer brand management, as well as to discuss its political characteristics and their implications.
Restoring international competitiveness in Croatia: the role of fiscal and monetary policy

Croatia has joined the European Union as a country with several substantial structural problems, of which the most important is weak competitiveness. Although competitiveness can be viewed from the ‘institutional’ perspective, which includes World Development Indicators (WDI) and Doing Business reports, in this paper the authors focus on the more standard view of competitiveness based on unit labour costs (ULC) and real effective exchange rate (REER). As a small, open and highly dollarized/euroised economy that has to coordinate its economic policy with the EU policy framework, Croatia has limited space for increasing international competitiveness using monetary policy measures aimed at (nominal) devaluation of the national currency. Therefore economic policy stakeholders should focus on decreasing unit labour costs and real effective exchange rate mainly through the process of internal devaluation, which is based on adequate fiscal policy measures. In this paper the authors analyse the role of monetary and fiscal policy in the deteriorating real effective exchange rate and unit labour costs since 2000, and their current capabilities and restrictions in restoring international competitiveness. The Structural VAR model (SVAR) is used to estimate the effects of foreign (banking) capital, credit growth, and current public expenditure on REER and ULC. The preliminary hypothesis of the paper is that monetary policy should continue to support bank lending activities and the role of fiscal policy is to achieve an internal devaluation, which will increase the competitiveness of the Croatian economy. Restoring international competitiveness is necessary due to its impact on net exports and consequently the economic recovery of the national economy, which has faced recession conditions for five years in a row. Also, restoring competitiveness is one of the most important preconditions for the success of a small country joining the single European market.
Offering a model based on the TAM for mobile banking reception in Iran

Objective: Nowadays the impact of information technology in different sectors of society including banking, is inevitable. By increasing access to smart phones, using mobile banking as one of the new electronic banking services, is expanding. Methodology: While adoption of mobile banking services has accelerated in many parts of the world, customers in Iran pay little attention to these services, and despite of the availability, isn't used properly. Results: Researches about influencing factors of users' decision to adopt technology shows that the success of an investment in information technology field depends on the user's tendency level in using it. In recent decades, according to the advancement of information technology and its users, several models in the field of technology adoption emerged that each of these models have different functions in different areas. Conclusion: In this article, first we review these models then, we survey the factors influencing on the adoption of mobile banking in Iran and finally, we offer a model for the development of mobile banking reception in Iran, according to TAM model.
Patent Races and the Persistence of Monopoly

PATENT RACES are important determinants of market structure. For a new firm, a patent can be an entry ticket into the market. For an incumbent firm already in the market, patents for related technologies can ensure that no new firm enters. In this spirit recent work has explored the implications of patenting for the persistence of monopoly (see, for example, Dasgupta [I982], Gilbert [I98I], Gilbert and Newbery [I982]). Much attention has been given to "pre-emptive patenting''-the strategic acquisition of patents by an incumbent firm solely to prevent potential rivals from entering the market. In this context it is important to distinguish between two kinds of patent race. A standard race is a competition in which a prize is awarded to the first player to reach the finishing line. An asymmetrical race is a competition in which one player loses something of value if one of his rivals reaches the finishing line (he is content if nobody wins), but a prize is won by the first of the other players to reach the finishing line, if any of them does so. A patent race in which an incumbent firm's sole concern is to prevent potential rivals from entering his market is an asymmetrical race and not a standard race. The distinction between the two kinds of race can be captured only in models with a sufficiently rich dynamic structure. This, and other, advantages of a properly dynamic model are explained in section II. A model of an asymmetrical race with two firms is presented in section III. In this model the "challenger" wins a prize, and the "incumbent" loses a prize, if the challenger is first to reach the finishing line. It is shown that the challenger is often automatically deterred from making any effort to win the race, because the strategic interactions between the players are such that the incumbent would outdo any reasonable effort made by the challenger in order to stop the challenger being first to reach the finishing line. Then the incumbent has no need to make any effort in the race in order to maintain his existing monopoly. The reason is that the incumbent-unlike the challenger-does not need to go all the way to the finishing line to achieve his objective. On the other hand, it may be truedepending on the parameters describing the firmsthat the challenger wins the patent, proceeding to the finishing line just as if he were the only contender for the patent. Of particular interest is the case in which the firms are identical
A Dual-Polarization Slot Antenna Using a Compact CPW Feeding Structure

A dual-polarization coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed slot antenna is proposed in this letter. By exploiting the even and odd modes of a CPW structure, two orthogonal polarizations can be excited in a slot aperture by the same feeding CPW, which results in a compact dual-polarization antenna design with very good isolation between the ports. The -10-dB reflection coefficient bandwidths of two polarizations are 670 MHz (27.9%) for one polarization and 850 MHz (35.4%) for the other, and the isolation between the two ports in the WLAN band is better than -32.6 dB. The radiation pattern and efficiency of the proposed antenna are also measured, and radiation pattern data are compared with simulation results.
The determinants of aggregate creditors’ voluntary liquidations

This article investigates the determinants of Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations (CVLs), an area of research that has received comparatively scant attention in the literature despite the fact that, at least in the UK, this form of insolvency has consistently comprised the majority of company failures. It develops an Equilibrium Correction Model (ECM) to explain variations in the aggregate number of CVLs in England and Wales between 1963 and 1995. This is then subjected to out-of-sample testing over the subsequent 10-year period. The results indicate that in both the short-run and the long-run, changes in the level of liquidations can be explained by two main explanatory variables namely: the nominal after-tax cost of borrowing and changes in the overall level of economic activity. In addition, confirmatory evidence is provided for the dampening effect of the 1986 Insolvency Act on the number of liquidations. The model retains its forecasting accuracy in the out-of-sample period although there is possibly some preliminary evidence of a further mitigating effect associated with the Enterprise Act 2002.