Abstract In recent years, many of the Asian countries follow suit to implement competition law. Are there any differences with regards to the intention to implement competition law? Are they driven by similar lines of reasoning? Many of the previous research shed light on one or two Asia...

Purpose – The anti‐monopoly law (AML) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which had undergone ten years of debate among the whole spectrum of China's society, was finally issued on August 30, 2007 and took effect on August 1, 2008. This paper seeks to assess the impact of these new...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the question of pre‐emptive merger decisions in a composite good framework where these goods have both competitive and complementary features. Design/methodology/approach – The paper constructs a model of partial mergers when there are three...

Regression analysis with time series data is frequently used in marketing research. However, despite its popularity and ease of interpretation it cannot provide any information regarding the relations between marketing time series over different frequencies. This article proposes a new research...

A number of interesting associations are described between levels of service point use, population information and library inputs, based on data obtained from two London boroughs in respect of individual static service points. Methods of deriving catchment area data using membership information...

Purpose The historic assets are heterogeneous and different to each other, and for this reason, consolidated valuation methodologies do not exist in practice or in the literature. It is, therefore, necessary to dwell on the study of a particular historic building type or category. The assessment...

Many transactions in the business‐to‐business‐field are governed on a relational basis. In such long‐term business relationships, the object of exchange is but one determinant of relationship success. Soft factors such as the customer‐directed behaviors a supplier demonstrates are...