Purpose: This study examines how unilateral supplier transaction-specific investments (TSIs), directly and indirectly, influence international buyer opportunism and the extent to which detailed contracts enable suppliers to safeguard against international buyer opportunism. The study also...

From the view of atom economy, it is important to know the form and apportion of oxygen in products, especially the apportion of oxygen in CO2 during direct coal liquefaction (DCL) and co-liquefaction of coal and petroleum residues (CCPR). Herein, co-liquefaction of Naomaohu lignite with Tahe...

The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of public and private agriculturalresearch on multi-output multi-input profit maximizing decisions of Midwestern farmers. The mainhypothesis is that investments in public and private R&D shift outward the supply curves for cropand livestock...