The premise is that consistently successful companies start with an external market orientation and vigilantly study customer trends in order to design their strategy.
That fewer cancers were detected 21% versus 35% for those sent to external labs, according to the study suggests "financial incentives" may play a role in decisions to order the tests, Ms. Mitchell said.
James Westhead, director of external relations at education charity TeachFirst, said the study was very significant international evidence that disadvantage need not equal destiny.
And a forthcoming ACCA study of IFRS adoption in China finds that companies with the greatest demand for external capital experienced the most increase in the value relevance of their reported earnings.
Most of the collapses that have taken place over the last 10 years in a study done recently by engineers, about 85 percent of them were from some external cause like a flood that undercuts the pilings or a barge or a ship hitting them.