Chwolka, Anne; Martini, Jan Thomas; Simons, Dirk - In: BuR - Business Research 3 (2010) 2, pp. 113-131
This paper analyzes the potential of one-step transfer prices based on either variable or full costs for coordinating decentralized production and quality-improving investment decisions. Transfer prices based on variable costs fail to induce investments on the upstream stage. In contrast,...