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Contract Mix and Ownership
Bai, Chong-en; Tao, Zhigang - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997
co-existence of company-owned units and franchised units in a franchise company. It adopts and extends important features …
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Choosing a Licensee from Heterogeneous Rivals
Ko, Chiu Yu; Konishi, Hideo; Creane, Anthony - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2011
We examine a firm that can license its production technology to a rival when firms are heterogeneous in production costs. We show that a complete technology transfer from one firm to another always increases joint profit under weakly concave demand when at least three firms remain in the...
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Goldilocks and the Licensing Firm: Choosing a Partner when Rivals are Heterogeneous
Konishi, Hideo; Creane, Anthony - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2009
Markets are often characterized with firms of differing capabilities with more efficient firms licensing their … the partner have on this licensing.  We find that a partial technology transfer can be the joint-profit minimizing …
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