In competitive industries, some firms bundle their products, whereas others unbundle them; still other firms occupy a niche position and offer only a subset of products. No general theory has been advanced to explain this variety of bundling strategies. We characterize the strategies of two...

Workers in knowledge-intensive industries often complain of having too many meetings, but organizations still give little thought to deciding when or how often to meet. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency and robustness of various coordination scheduling rules. We consider a situation...