Acquisition Activity and Product Market Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Sheen
Keyword(s):  
Product Market ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Do photos help or hinder field experiments of discrimination?

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Rich
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Response Probability ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Skin Colour ◽  
Product Markets ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess field experiments of labour and product markets that have attached photos to identify applicants (in the case of labour markets) or sellers/crowd funders (in the case of product markets). Design/methodology/approach The experiments seek to identify the contribution of attractiveness, race/ethnicity, skin colour, sexual orientation or religion to the behaviour of agents in markets. These experiments attach photos to CV to signal attractiveness, or the basis of being tested such as race/ethnicity, skin colour or religion. Findings Many experiments report significant findings for the impact of attractiveness or the identity revealed on positive callbacks to applicants. Research limitations/implications The issue considered here, however, is to what extent it is attractiveness or other perceived characteristics that may have had an impact on the behaviour recorded in the experiments. The results of the studies covered in this paper, to a lesser extent those of Weichselbaumer (2004) and Baert (2017), are compromised by including photos, with the possibility the responses received were influenced not only by the basis being tested such as attractiveness, race/ethnicity or religion but by some other characteristic unintended by the researcher but conveyed by the photo. Practical implications There is evidence in the experimental work of a range of characteristics that photos convey of individuals and their impact on labour and product market outcomes such as success in obtaining a positive response to job applications and success in obtaining funding to finance projects in the product market. Suggestions are made for future experiments: evaluation of photos for a range of characteristics; use of a “no photo” application together with the photo applications; and evaluation of responses for any bias from unobservable characteristics using Neumark (2012). Originality/value This paper discusses for the first time three questions with some tentative answers. First, the researcher faces introducing further unobservable characteristics by using photos. Second, the researcher cannot fully control the experimental approach when using photos. Third, the researcher is able to accurately evaluate the impact of the photos used on the response/probability of call back. Field experiments using photos need to ensure they do this for the range of factors that have been shown to affect judgments and therefore potentially influence call back response. However, the issue remains whether the researcher has, in fact, identified all potential characteristics conveyed by the photos.

Linking Patent Issues to Product Market Outcomes

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (1) ◽  
pp. 13317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Wagner ◽  
Simon D. Wakeman
Keyword(s):  
Product Market ◽  
Market Outcomes

The effect of asymmetric information on product market outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Billett ◽  
Jon A. Garfinkel ◽  
Miaomiao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Market Outcomes

The Effect of Asymmetric Information on Product Market Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Billett ◽  
Jon A. Garfinkel ◽  
Miaomiao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Market Outcomes

The Effect of Asymmetric Information on Product Market Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Yu ◽  
Jon A. Garfinkel ◽  
Matthew T. Billett
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Market Outcomes

ANALISIS KINERJA STRATEGI PEMASARAN USAHA KERAJINAN KETAK DI KABUPATEN LOMBOK TENGAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.L Ahmad Murdani
Keyword(s):  
Product Market ◽  
Horizontal Merger ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Method Approach

Ketak handicraft is one of any other superior handicraft in Lombok Tengah Regency, as one of any other revenue generator for Lombok Tengah regency and to increase the prosperity of people in this industry, it is needed to find out the ways and strategies to improve the performance of this business. This research was categorized as a descriptive research which used case method approach, it was aimed to find out the position of ketak handicraft among handicraft industry in Lombok Tengah based on recent performance and to identify alternative strategies which can be chosen in order to improve the performance of this industry. In order to find out the position of ketak handicraft business, it was used BCG Agam analysis and based on this position the strategy for improving this business was selected based on this analysis, the position of third business was in the stars position, where alternative strategies that can be chosen were: (a) development of the existing product (market expansion for the existing product); (b) diversification; (c) horizontal merger. Suggestion recommended was to apply one of these strategies based on analysis that had been conducted.

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