作者:Clark, BH; Montgomery, DB
作者单位:Northeastern University; Stanford University
摘要:This study examines an aspect of competitive interactions that has attracted increasing research attention: the relationship between deterrence and competitive reputations. We build a conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of a firm's reputation for being a credible defender of its markets. Theory and limited empirical evidence suggests a firm with this reputation should deter competitive attacks against it. We explore how a manager's competitive cognition about her opponents' (1...
作者:Simar, L; Wilson, PW
作者单位:Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要:Efficiency scores of production units are generally measured relative to an estimated production frontier. Nonparametric estimators (DEA, FDH,...) are based on a finite sample of observed production units. The bootstrap is one easy way to analyze the sensitivity of efficiency scores relative to the sampling variations of the estimated frontier. The main point in order to validate the bootstrap is to define a reasonable data-generating process in this complex framework and to propose a reasonab...