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How do market structures affect decisions on vertical integration
Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2010
We provide a simple model to investigate decisions on vertical integration/separation. The key feature of this model is that more than one input is required for the final products of the local downstream monopolists. Depending on their cost structure, downstream firms' decisions on vertical...
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Process and Product Innovation by a Multiproduct Monopolist: A Dynamic Approach
Lambertini, Luca; Mantovani, Andrea - 2005
We model the optimal behaviour of a multiproduct monopolist investing both in process and in product innovation in a … dynamic setting. Product innovation reduces the degree of substitutability between any two varieties. First, we find that R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651445
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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On competition and the strategic management of intellectual property in oligopoly
Jansen, Jos - 2009
An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival's beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267007
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Exports, product differentiation and knowledge spillovers
León-Ledesma, Miguel - 2002
Empirical studies on aggregate export behaviour have recently emphasised the role played by innovation as the main … force driving product differentiation and competitiveness for developed countries. These studies treat foreign innovation as … a variable that affects negatively national export shares. We incorporate the impact of foreign innovation in a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290660
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Die Rolle der "Fertigungstiefe" als Variable in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien
Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2007
Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefe in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrument der Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyse über die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- und Funktionalstrategie...
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Strategische Implikationen einer geringen Fertigungstiefe für die Automobilindustrie
Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2007
In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...
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Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures: Assessing the impact of new technologies upon size, pattern of growth and boundaries of the firms
Dosi, Giovanni; Gambardella, Alfonso; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2007
In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage has resulted in changes in the size distribution of firms and also in the degree of concentration...
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Market size and vertical structure in the rail way industry
Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizutani, Fumitoshi - 2011
We provide a theoretical framework to discuss the relation between market size and vertical structure in the railway industry. The framework is based on a simple downstream monopoly model with two input suppliers, labor forces and the rail infrastructure firm. The operation of the downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332400
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Strategic Vertical Separation
Sloev, Igor - 2009
The paper explores incentives for strategic vertical separation of firms in a framework of a simple duopoly model. Each firm chooses either to be a retailer of its own good (vertical integration) or to sell its good through an independent exclusive retailer (vertical separation). In the latter...
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