In the field of marketing, pricing is a valuable and long-established steering tool. But inthe logistics context of co-operative strategies like supply chain management, this fieldis mainly neglected. Therefore, the author describes the basic principles and effects ofprice differentiation and...

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms productive characteristics influence managers attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...

This paper analyzes the problem of deriving predictions, regarding supply behavior of acompetitive firm, from prior consistency postulates about input-output choices made by such afirm. It extends the literature by introducing a consistency postulate for firm choice, which isweaker than...

We use a novel approach to address the question of whether a union of sovereign countries can efficiently raise and allocate a budget, even when members are purely self-interested and participation is voluntary. The main innovation of our model is to explore the link between budget contributions...

One of the problems faced by a firm that sells certain commodities is to determine the number of products that it must supply with in order to maximize profits. In this article, the authors give an answer to this problem of economic interest. To solve it they use the theorem of the "unconscious...