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Information Sharing in the Online Marketplace when Sellers Incur Nonlinear Costs

Huang, Hu; Li, Tian; Zhang, Hongtao - 2021

We study information dissemination in an online platform where multiple sellers distribute their partially substitutable products. The platform has superior information about consumer demand and determines whether, and with how many sellers, to share the information. An important feature of our...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...

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Building Global Knowledge Pipelines The Role of Temporary Clusters

Maskell, Peter; Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Anders - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans. Such events exhibit many of the …

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Optimal information transmission in organizations: Search and congestion

Arenas, Àlex; Cabrales, Antonio; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective “specialized solvers” by relying on local information alone. The...

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Centralizing Information in Networks

Hagenbach, Jeanne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Abstract: In the dynamic game we analyze, players are the members of a ?xed network. Everyone is initially endowed with an information item that he is the only player to hold. Players are offered a ?nite number of periods to centralize the initially dispersed items in the hands of any one member...

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Speed and Quality of Collective Decision-Making, I: Imperfect Information Processing

Grüner, Hans Peter; Schulte, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

better one of two alternatives only with a certain probability. This Paper compares three different hierarchy designs with … respect to decision quality: two strictly balanced hierarchies and the fastest hierarchy, which is the skip-level reporting … tree proposed by Radner (1993). The latter hierarchy design is found to outperform the two others not only in terms of …

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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Labour productivity in the US has recently grown more strongly than in most European countries. It is often argued that the American productivity increase is due to the widespread introduction of new information and communication technologies (ICT). But why have the same technologies not...

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Da cosa dipende la qualità delle informazioni

GAMBARO, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

selection and production of information can be biased by specific competition dynamics in information market or in advertising …

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Centralizing information in networks.

Hagenbach, Jeanne - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009

In the dynamic game we consider, players are the members of a fixed network. Everyone is initially endowed with an information item that he is the only paper to hold. Players are offered a finite number of periods to centralize the initially dispersed items in the hands of any one member of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012515