Strategic surprise lies in wait. There is no surprise if competitors can figure out one's intentions before end. We examine how enlightened strategists can enact the socially-embedded knowledge that prevails over competitors' behavior to their very own favor. Findings suggest that firms can...

Motivated by policy events experienced during the last two decades by the European natural gas industry, this paper develops a simple model for analyzing the interaction between gas release and capacity investment programs as tools to improve the performance of imperfectly competitive markets....

A firm chooses a price and the product information it discloses to a consumer whose tastes are privately known. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on the match function for full disclosure to be the unique equilibrium outcome whatever the costs and prior beliefs about product and...

We adopt a framework of vertical differentiation (i.e. differentiation by quality) to study the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We develop a model of duopoly in a two‐country setting, in which firms choose the country of location, the level of CSR and finally compete in the...

The paper proposes an analytical framework for comparing different business models for producing information goods and digital services. It is based on three dimensions that also refer to contrasted literature: the economics of matching, the economics of assembling and the economics of knowledge...

If we define e-competencies as the competencies developed in order to support the online activity of the organization, there is very few if any research that studies the relation between e-competencies development and firm’s performance.From the resource-based theory we studied empirically...

La plupart des travaux de recherche concernant l’e-business présentent une méthodologie, mesurent la prédisposition des entreprises ou évaluent les conséquences en terme de gestion.Cette recherche vise à apporter un modèle d’analyse des stratégies e-business, à partir de la...