Little Empirical Analysis (little + empirical_analysis)

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How to facilitate immersion in a consumption experience: appropriation operations and service elements

JOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, Issue 1 2006
Antonella Carù
An entire research current has taken on the mantle of analysing the growing quest on the part of contemporary consumers for immersion into varied experiences. But there has been little empirical analysis of this process of immersion and the experience it produces. This paper introduces and develops the subjective operations that consumers undertake in their efforts to be submerged in the consumption experience. It uses empirical research based on introspective reports filed by consumers who attended a series of classical music concerts. The results suggest that, rather than being an immediate process, immersion in a consumption experience is more progressive. To facilitate this progressive process, greater attention must be paid to the management of those service elements that will have an impact on the so-called operations of appropriation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


External Liberalization and Foreign Presence: Cross-Industry Evidence From Poland and Hungary

JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, Issue 3 2000
Robert E. Kennedy
External liberalization,the relaxation of restrictions on cross-border trade and inbound direct investment,has played an important role in the programs of economic transition in central Europe. While liberalization is widely heralded, there has been little empirical analysis of the links between liberalization and industry structure. This analysis examines changes in foreign presence following external liberalization in Poland and Hungary. I show that the presence of proprietary and intangible assets explains much of the cross-industry variation in patterns of foreign presence and, for a given level of foreign presence, whether this will occur via trade or inbound direct investment. [source]


External Liberalization and Foreign Presence: Cross-Industry Evidence from Poland and Hungary

JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, Issue 2 2000
Robert E. Kennedy
External liberalization,the relaxation of restrictions on cross-border trade and inbound direct investment,has played an important role in the programs of economic transition in central Europe. While liberalization is widely heralded, there has been little empirical analysis of the links between liberalization and industry structure. This analysis examines changes in foreign presence following external liberalization in Poland and Hungary. I show that the presence of proprietary and intangible assets explains much of the cross-industry variation in patterns of foreign presence and, for a given level of foreign presence, whether this will occur via trade or inbound direct investment. [source]


Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the United Kingdom and the United States

JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2009
John Armour
It is often assumed that strong securities markets require good legal protection of minority shareholders. This implies both "good" law,principally, corporate and securities law,and enforcement, yet there has been little empirical analysis of enforcement. We study private enforcement of corporate law in two common-law jurisdictions with highly developed stock markets, the United Kingdom and the United States, examining how often directors of publicly traded companies are sued, and the nature and outcomes of those suits. We find, based a comprehensive search for filings over 2004,2006, that lawsuits against directors of public companies alleging breach of duty are nearly nonexistent in the United Kingdom. The United States is more litigious, but we still find, based on a nationwide search of court decisions between 2000,2007, that only a small percentage of public companies face a lawsuit against directors alleging a breach of duty that is sufficiently contentious to result in a reported judicial opinion, and a substantial fraction of these cases are dismissed. We examine possible substitutes in the United Kingdom for formal private enforcement of corporate law and find some evidence of substitutes, especially for takeover litigation. Nonetheless, our results suggest that formal private enforcement of corporate law is less central to strong securities markets than might be anticipated. [source]