Profit centers in a firm in multidivisional form agree in the ex antestage upon a plan about their joint production and profit imputation. The plan isexecuted in the subsequent two periods of the interim stage. In the first interimperiod, each center has its private information, but a part of...

Profit centers in a firm in multidivisional form agree in the ex ante stage upon a plan about their joint production and profit imputation. The plan is executed in the subsequent two periods of the interim stage: the setup period and the manufacturing period. In the setup period, each center has...