At the end of 2013 loans and other sums due to Arteva Europe from other Koch Industries companies around the world – specifically firms within Invista division, a global chemical fibres operation best known for its Lycra clothing and Stainmaster carpeting brands – were $1.67bn.
Specifically, firms headquartered in California have a 0.45% lower announcement return on the first day after the quota announcement than a group of control firms headquartered in other U.S. states or the D.C. matched on size and industry.
More specifically, firms are subject to "rational" inertia in the sense that the probability of choosing increases (and inertia decreases) when firms face alternative laws that are particularly attractive based on their characteristics and economic conditions.
Specifically, firms with low technological-competence-enhancing capability tend to follow a convergent growth pattern in which firm growth gradually declines, while firms with high technological-competence-enhancing capability tend to exhibit either a sustained or a vicious growth pattern depending on the initial size of their technological knowledge stock.
Specifically, firms acquiring resources in multiple ways are 46% more likely to survive over a five-year period than those relying mainly on alliances, 26% more likely than those focusing on M&A, and 12% more likely than those sticking with internal development.
Specifically, firms with higher book-to-market ratios and firms with smaller market capitalizations have historically earned higher returns than what can be explained by beta alone.
Specifically, firms that exhibit expertise along the dimensions of process elements (acquisition, transformation, and conversion of knowledge) will tend to experience higher levels of performance.
Specifically, firms should bear in mind the need to deal with requests for information from the FSA as well as queries and complaints from customers which may require evidence of matters such as: the reasons for personal recommendations, what documentation has been provided to a customer and how claims have been settled and why.
Specifically, a firm violates Section 2 if it attains or preserves monopoly power through anticompetitive acts.
