New restaurants and their intra-industry effects: evidence from Portugal by Luís Miguel Serra Coelho

“…Using event-study methods, this paper finds that, in the year the new competitors open for business, industry rivals experience an average abnormal loss of -17.6% in their return-on-assets, which is due to a significant decrease in their profit margin, and asset turnover ratio. …”
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Dominants of economic security of Russian industrial organizations with participation of state in capital: chronicles of “Russian Helicopters” holding company by A. V. Savin

“…The development of the model range of "Russian Helicopters" in comparison with leading foreign competitors has been reviewed. The technological parity of the holding and competing firms has been diagnosed. …”
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Dynamic Models of Pollution Penalties and Rewards with Time Delays by Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky

“…It is shown how the stability can be lost if time delays are introduced in the output quantities of the competitors as well as in the firms’ own output levels. …”
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Open Innovation and Implementation of Different Types of Innovation: An Analysis Based on Panel Data by Humberto Rodrigues Marques, Ednilson Sebastião Ávila, Rafael Morais Pereira, André Luiz Zambalde

“…This work aimed to verify, based on the open innovation strategy, how different types of interactions with external actors (customers, competitors, suppliers, universities, and consultants) influence different types of innovations (general innovations, product innovations, and technological innovations) implemented by organizations. …”
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Study of Increasing the Export Potential of Indonesia Wood Pellets as a Source of the Renewable Biomass Energy Source by Victor Tulus Pangapoi Sidabutar

“…In addition, the existing plant biodiversity that can be used as a source of raw material for wood pellets are unique compared to other competitors. Legalization and regulation in terms of the sustainability of raw materials is a key requirement to enter the European market. …”
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The Promotion Effect of Computer-Aided Technology Combined with RBF Neural Network Algorithm on Art Design by Chunliang Pan, Yuning Pan

“…In addition, this study shows the changing rules of the competition relationship and the distribution of competitors under the interference of noise. Finally, this study controls the style of the art pattern design in the spatial domain and uses the mask image pattern to disguise the art style. …”
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Pengaruh Kualitas Layanan, Kualitas Produk Dan Atmosfir Toko Terhadap Kepuasan Dan Loyalitas Konsumen by Dian Retno Intan, Litna Nurjannah Ginting, Khairul Fahmi Purba, Rahmad Suryanto Pirngadi

“…As a result, it is critical to understand the factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty so that customers do not switch to competitors. Some of them are kualitas layanan, kualitas produk, and atmosfir toko . …”
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IT Governance Modes Choice: An Institutional Theory Perspective by Karim Ben Boubaker, Saida Harguem, Mari Nyrhinen

“…Mimetic pressures caused by peers, professional associations, or competitors also played an important role in IT Governance mode choice. …”
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A proposal for measuring hotels’ managerial responses to User-Generated-Content Reviews by Javier Perez-Aranda, María Vallespín, Sebastian Molinillo

“…Based on data from a survey of 335 hotels, this article validates a 32-item UGC-Review scale that, through a battery of exploratory factorial analysis tests, comprises 6 constructs: identification of the reputation landscape; assessment of changes in the company´s ratings and rankings over time; determination of the publication reach; comparison with industry competitors; review and comparison of ranking methodologies and increased reputational scores. …”
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Patent portfolios and Patent Assertion Entities: antitrust issues and future perspective under the Unified Patent Court by Pietro Cappabianca

“…However, in the past years antitrust authorities found themselves in front of a tangled question: the strategic use of patents in order to unlawfully prolong the protection time and, by so doing, to exclude competitors from the market. The strategic use of patent portfolios and the rapid growth of Patent Assertion Entities represent a significant antitrust issue which needs to be investigated, especially following the Agreement on unitary patent and Unified Patent Court and the related deep changes in the European patent system in order to verify if such Agreement can be a useful tool against strategic and anti-competitive conducts. …”
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WPD-based blind image steganalysis by LUO Xiang-yang1, LIU Fen-lin1, WANG Dao-shun2

“…Based on wavelet package decomposition（WPD）,a new blind image steganalysis method was presented,which can detect the stego images with comparatively high accuracy.Firstly,by three scales of WPD,image was decomposed into some coefficient subbands,and the multi-order absolute characteristic function moments of histogram were extracted as features from these subbands and image itself.And then,these features were processed and a back-propagation（BP） neural network was designed to classify original and stego images.A series of experiments were made to validate the performance of proposed method for five kinds of typical steganography methods,including LSB,SS,Jsteg,F5 and MB.Results show the method can detect stego and original images reliably,and the average detection accuracy of this method exceeds those of its closest competitors by at least 7.5% and up to 17.2%.Moreover,the influence of integral and non-integral WPD for the detection accuracy was discussed.…”
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The Economic Impact of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle by Travis D. Maddock, Darren D. Henry, G. Cliff Lamb

“… A well-run, profitable business is usually more efficient than its competitors. In the case of the beef cattle industry, competition can come from two sources: other producers who sell similar classes of cattle, and other protein-producing species, such as pork and poultry. …”
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Optimal Pricing of Spectrum Resources in Wireless Opportunistic Access by Hanna Bogucka

“…To obtain spectrally efficient and fair spectrum allocation in this competitive environment with the nodes having no information on the other players, taxation of resources is applied to coerce desired behavior of the competitors. In the paper, we present mathematical formulation of the problem of finding the optimal taxation rate (common for all nodes) and propose a reduced-complexity algorithm for this optimization. …”
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The Economic Impact of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle by Travis D. Maddock, Darren D. Henry, G. Cliff Lamb

“… A well-run, profitable business is usually more efficient than its competitors. In the case of the beef cattle industry, competition can come from two sources: other producers who sell similar classes of cattle, and other protein-producing species, such as pork and poultry. …”
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Meta-synthesizing of Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility: External Stake-holders Approach by Maryam Khalatbari Moazam, Hamidreza Yazdani, Naser Asgari

“…Additionally, the expectations of stakeholders compel banks not only to act ethically towards their suppliers and competitors but also to avoid any unethical practices. …”
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Knowledge management as a determinant of job satisfaction by Ćurčić Mihailo, Matejić Ivica

“…Establishing a leadership position over competitors requires employees who possess knowledge, abilities and skills that are critical to the success of the organization. …”
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Réponse de quatre variétés de Anacardium occidentale L. aux techniques de greffage horticole en pépinière by Touré Mamoudou Abdoul, Faye Elhadji, Goudiaby Ramatoulaye

“…The nuts Production of Anacadium occidental L. in Senegal is low and the quality is also poor compared to its competitors (Bissau Guinea, Ivory Coast, etc.). This situation is due to some factors including use lack of selected and improved varieties, aging plantations, and lack of farmers’ training. …”
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Robust Framework to Combine Diverse Classifiers Assigning Distributed Confidence to Individual Classifiers at Class Level by Shehzad Khalid, Sannia Arshad, Sohail Jabbar, Seungmin Rho

“…Experimental results show the superiority of proposed ensemble method as compared to its competitors, especially in the presence of class label noise and imbalance classes.…”
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Digital technologies: drivers of economic growth during COVID-19 pandemic by S. G. Serikov

“…Despite the measures taken by the state to launch digitalization processes in the domestic economy, Russian companies lag far behind foreign competitors in terms of the degree of implementation and use of digital technologies in their activities. …”
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Seller Perception Analysis on Purchase Decision Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Method by Khusna Dwijayanti

“…Price, product quality, service quality, and social media promotion can be good strategies to win over existing competitors. There are many studies on consumer perception, and a few studies on seller perception. …”
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