time or service quality is socially optimal. We find that this result does not hold if capacity and toll setting take place … in separate stages, as then firms want to limit the toll competition by setting lower capacities; or when firms set … higher capacities. In our Stackelberg competition, the firms that act last have few if any capacity decisions to influence …

practices in the manufacturing industries. The objective is to investigate the competitive priorities domains' implementation … and its defining measurement items emphasizing manufacturing industries in the Union Territory of Puducherry. Design …/methodology/approach: The essential information has been gathered from 350 manufacturing firms by utilizing very much stretchered polls; most …

In this paper we present a Generalized Nash Equilibrium model of supply chain network competition among blood service …

quality and the downstream firms compete on prices. We study competition between a centralized mainstream firm and a … chain reduces competition intensity and the quality difference between their products. Furthermore, due to the free …-riding effect, the bandit supply chain may even offer higher quality products than the mainstream firm. The mainstream firm’s profit …