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The paper studies the performance of joint ventures where upstream firms sell inputs to a production joint venture. It … analysis suggests that firms must have other reasons for forming joint ventures than those guided by production efficiency and …
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The paper studies the performance of joint ventures where upstreams firms sell inputs to a production joint venture. It … analysis suggests that firms must have other reasons for forming joint ventures than those guided by production efficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671989
price responses directly to firm profits and characterize the economic significance of asymmetric pricing in the retail …
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In this paper, we develop a nonlinear programming (NLP) model to jointly determine the optimum financial incentives and price discount levels for each rate class. The model aims at maximizing net revenues. It includes nonlinear relationships representing the impact of incentives on productivity...
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monopolistic conditions in the downstream market. The well-known result of the upstream supplier’s pricing policy being invariant …
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A production line with random processing times and no interstation buffers is considered. The jobs are scheduled …
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processus de production de ce bien. Les couts des agents constituent une information privee. Le principal confie la production …
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Consider a market in which firms compete to develop a new product. While most work focuses on a single firm successfully developing the new product, the emphasis here is on possibly multiple firms devloping the new product. Thus, a firm has uncertainty about how many competitors it will face as...
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by a contious materials flow production system with N stations in series and M stations in parallel and no interstation …
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In this paper some determinants of discrete shifts from production franchise agreements to vertical integration are … investigated from a new angle. Production franxhise agreements are considered as an organizational innovation for the diffusion of … process and/or product innovations. A common agency model describes production franchising as a contractual device between …
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