water. Nor do the social standards for Chinese workers match those in traditional industrial countries. …

certification or strong brandmarks to transmit credibility to the consumers. The major point that enhanced vertical coordination was … quality, showing the importance of the CQP certification process. …

certification will become business partners of the buyer. …

information gap, consumers can rely on standards (labels, certifications, geographic indications) that insure quality and origin … of the goods. However, these standards do not always fully reveal information. Some of them may just signal that the good … is more likely to be of high quality. We investigate what kind of standards are most desirable for producers, and for …

Mobile applications users consider it especially important to have quality certification, and particularly in an e … (certified and non-certified mHealth apps). However, quality certification labels as a guarantee of the quality of apps do not … partial association between "certification" and "online user reviews" (Z = 2.174; sig = 0.042)] and between "download" and …

gap, consumers can rely on standards (e.g., certification) that ensure quality and origin of the goods. These costly … standards can be adopted by a group of producers of high-quality goods. We study the formation of such a group that we model as …. We find that for intermediate values of certification costs, the industry and a club of a given size of certified …