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Modern revenue managers understand, anticipate, and react to market demand to maximize their businesses' revenues. They often do so by analyzing, forecasting, and optimizing their fixed, perishable inventory, and time-variable supply, through dynamic prices. Hence, the objective of pricing and...
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Motivated by globalization, the internationalization of Brazilian franchise chains to emerging countries has grown in …
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This paper offers a social network explanation for the purported relationship between internationalization and firm performance in the context of born global small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We argue that home-based social networks play a mediating role in the relationship between inward and...
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In 2002, thirty-four chief executives of the world’s largest multinational corporations signed a document during the World Economic Forum (WEF) entitled, ‘Global Corporate Citizenship: The Leadership Challenge for CEOs and Boards’. These included Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Diageo, Merck &...
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The purpose of this article is to discuss the risks for Chinese companies that are interested in pursuing international business opportunities. Drawing from personal industry experience, experience teaching Chinese entrepreneurs/managers in China, and marketing management class lectures, I...
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We consider a supply chain in which a manufacturer sells an innovative durable product to an independent retailer over its life cycle. We assume that the product demand follows a Bass-type diffusion process, and it is determined by the market influences, retail price of the product, and shelf...
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Cooperative (co-op) advertising is an important instrument for aligning manufacturer and retailer decisions in supply chains. In this, the manufacturer announces a co-op advertising policy, i.e., a participation rate that specifies the percentage of the retailer's advertising expenditure that it...
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essay, I provide some historical context to the recent era of "hyper-globalization." I then present multiple factors …-economic, social, political, technological, and governance-related - that collectively explain why globalization has peaked and is on … economy, state, and society so as to realize a healthier alignment among them. Finally, I look at where globalization might be …
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consumption patterns. The globalization process is believed to affect most young people designated Generation Y. They were brought …
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What determines the value an MNC's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing...
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