The use of unilateral pricing policy (UPP), in which the manufacturer sets the common retail price for all retailers, is increasingly popular in the United States as a result of recent legal developments. This paper develops an analytical framework to model UPP in multichannel markets. The...

Over the last century, many firms have primarily relied on their internal laboratories as the main source for Ramp;D. The output from this Ramp;D helped to increase profits and organic growth through the development of new products and processes. However, the increased mobility and availability...

A total of 20 actinobacterial strains were isolated from the two estuarine fishes and examined for their amylase activity. Among them, one strain AS-10, which was identified as Streptomyces galilaeus showed higher amylase activity with lower biomass and it was taken for further study. The effect...

Two important areas are underexplored in the relationship between marketing resources and performance. First, the subject has been primarily investigated in the context of Western countries, and inadequate attention has been given to emerging economies. Second, despite the recent growth in...

Aquaculture has become an important economic activity in many countries. In large-scale production facilities, where aquatic animals are exposed to stressful conditions, problems related to diseases and deterioration of environmental conditions often occur and result in serious economic losses....

A study was carried out to estimate the bacterial abundance in a shrimp culture system of Penaeus monodon (Fabricius, 1798) located on the banks of the river Vellar, Parangipettai, southeast coast of India. Various physicochemical parameters, bacterial density, sediments and the shrimp in the...