Humans tend to make time-inconsistent intertemporal choices and exhibit naivete about their self-control in the future, a human tendency identified and confirmed in behavioral economics and marketing literature as “present-biased preferences”. New service operations business models betting...

Many U.S. IT companies began to realize the important role of tax planning in recent years and started strategically establishing retail subsidiaries in favorable tax jurisdictions. Significant increase of after-tax profits can be achieved by internally trading their own intellectual properties,...

In today's increasingly interconnected world, co-opetition has emerged as a new business practice among the technology firms. The boundaries between cooperation and competition have been becoming vague, where rivals engage in collaborative activities. One of the most critical challenges facing...