The current study explores the asymmetric cost behaviour in US shipping industry. More precisely, it investigates whether various categories of expenses show asymmetric behaviour after increases or decreases in the stream of their revenues and examines the impact of leverage on managers'...

MNEs are facing a complex competitive landscape driven greatly by globalization and the technological revolution. The challenge for MNEs is often a multilingual community which involves VT members who use a lingua franca (a shared language) to communicate within multinational enterprise. When VT...

In this paper we investigate the ways in which new forms of organization enabled by digital technologies such as crowdsourcing and digital marketplaces are allowing firms to circumvent and defy traditional knowledge constraints. This is part of the broader question of when and why these forms of...

In this study we analyze the determinants of airline price dispersion. We particularly concentrate on the conduct and marginal cost efficiency. The effect of conduct on price dispersion seems to depend on the characteristics of the market. For the big city routes, we observe positive effect; and...