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Can consumers enforce environmental regulations? The role of the market in hazardous waste compliance

Stafford, Sarah - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 31 (2007) 1, pp. 83-107

environmental compliance. We first examine whether environmental performance affects consumer demand and find that noncompliance … does decrease demand, at least in the short term. Next we consider whether market characteristics affect compliance … behavior. While we do not find evidence that market size affects behavior, local competition does appear to increase compliance …

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Can Consumers Enforce Environmental Regulations? The Role of the Market in Hazardous Waste Compliance

Stafford, Sarah L. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2005

To assess the role that consumers can play in encouraging environmental compliance, we examine the U.S. hazardous waste … compliance behavior. We find that noncompliance does decrease demand, at least in the short-term. While we do not find any … evidence that market size affects compliance, local competition does appear to increase compliance. However, as competition …

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Deterrence, Reputations, and Competitive Cognition

Clark, Bruce H.; Montgomery, David B. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 1, pp. 62-82

This study examines an aspect of competitive interactions that has attracted increasing research attention: the relationship between deterrence and competitive reputations. We build a conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of a firm's reputation for being a credible defender of its...

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An Analysis of Pricing and Leadtime Policies within the Marketing/Operations Interface

Pekgun-Cakmak, Pelin - 2007

In this thesis, we analyze the impact of the decentralization of price and leadtime decisions made by the marketing and production departments, respectively, in a make-to-order firm. We first study a monopoly environment, and find that in the decentralized setting, the total demand generated is...

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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space

Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009

At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...

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Čistaja konkurencija, koalicionnaja sila i spravedlivoe raspredelenie

Shapley, Lloyd S.; Shubik, Martin - In: Ėkonomičeskaja politika (2013) 1, pp. 146-174

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Cooperative quality investment in outsourcing

Chen, Jingxian; Liang, Liang; Yang, Feng - In: International Journal of Production Economics 162 (2015) C, pp. 174-191

This paper highlights the importance of having a cooperative quality investment (CQI) strategy and proposes a simple proportional investment sharing schedule in the outsourcing of a supply chain, which consists of a contract manufacturer (CM, the supplier) and two competitive original equipment...

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Cooperation through capacity sharing between competing forwarders

Li, Li; Zhang, Rachel Q. - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 75 (2015) C, pp. 115-131

In this paper, we consider a shipping system consisting of one carrier and two shipping forwarders who compete on price for businesses from potential shippers. The carrier may quote different prices or a single price to the two shipping forwarders who will then order shipping capacity from the...

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Supply chain network competition in price and quality with multiple manufacturers and freight service providers

Nagurney, Anna; Saberi, Sara; Shukla, Shivani; Floden, Jonas - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 77 (2015) C, pp. 248-267

In this paper, we develop both static and dynamic supply chain network models with multiple manufacturers and freight service providers competing on price and quality. The manufacturers compete with one another in terms of price and quality of the product manufactured, whereas the freight...

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Warranty Signalling and Reputation

Balachander, Subramanian - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 9, pp. 1282-1289

In this paper, we present a signalling-based explanation for the empirical phenomenon that a longer warranty may be offered by a product with lower quality. Our explanation hinges on differences in consumer knowledge about reliability of established and newer products. In a product market where...

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