Title:On the Discrepancies between Macro and Micro Level Identification of Competitive Strategies
Author(s):HERRMANN, AndreaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:As economic internationalization advances, the question of how firms cope with increasing pressure for competitiveness gains momentum. While scholars agree that firms need a competitive advantage, they debate whether firms ...
Title:On the Need to Regulate Competing Jurisdictions between International Courts and Tribunals
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Competing jurisdiction is a relatively new but increasingly important phenomenon in international
law. The ongoing proliferation of international courts and tribunals results in a multiplication of
judgments and arbitral ...
Title:On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
Title:On the Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding
Author(s):THAL, JeanineDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I consider an adverse selection model of product quality to analyze a firm's incentives to sell different products under an umbrella brand. My main result is that umbrella branding can signal positive quality correlation ...