Zwischenbetriebliche Kooperationen zur Bewältigung der Umweltschutzproblematik bei der Produktentstehung,- nutzung und -entsorgung bieten für Unternehmen zahlreiche Vorteile. Voraussetzung ist jedoch das Bestreben, die ökologischen und okönomischen Interessen eines Unternehmens in Einklang...

We model strategic interaction on a market where two labeling organizations compete and firms in duopoly decide which labels to offer. The incumbent label maximizes its own profit, and is challenged by an industry standard which maximizes industry profit. Using a nested logit, the result of this...

We model competing ecolabels sponsored by an industry trade association and an environmental group. For either sponsor in autarky, multi-tier labels are more attractive when there are many producers with high cost of quality, and the cost gap between low-cost and high-cost firms is large. When...