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Chapter 2 Consumer Behaviour 2.1 Introduction “The consumer, so it is said, is the king… each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done” [Samuelson in Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations, 2000:274]. There is no question about it – consumers are paramount to the economy. All marketing decisions are based on assumptions about consumer behaviour [Hawkins et al., 2001:8, Mulkern, 2001:126; and Labbe, 2000:38]. In order to create value for consumers
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Economica (2015) 82, 1177–1216 doi:10.1111/ecca.12156 Family Firms, Corporate Governance and Export By RAOUL MINETTI†, PIERLUIGI MURRO‡ and SUSAN CHUN ZHU† †Michigan State University ‡Lumsa University Final version received 20 June 2015. This paper investigates the effects of family ownership on export using rich data on Italian firms. We find that family ownership increases the probability that firms export. This benefit is especially pronounced when family owners retain control rights
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