Most pricing studies assume that firms have complete information about demand. In practice, managers must make decisions, given incomplete information about the demand for their own products as well as those of their rivals. This paper develops a duopoly pricing model in which firms market...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework to help business marketers with a mixed online and traditional retail channel (multi‐channel company) to find the optimal pricing strategy and market structure in order to maximize their profits. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework to help competitive firms find optimal pricing and brand management strategies in order to maximize their respective profits. Design/methodology/approach – A game‐theoretic model is developed to determine optimal pricing and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework to help the manufacturers to find the optimal decisions regarding the choice of channel member for information sharing. Design/methodology/approach – A game‐theoretical model plus Bayesian forecasting is developed to determine...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The games -- Index of games by objectives -- Check lists for use in facilitating team development -- A design framework for team development programmes

Based on work in the environment of professional football, this book explores the effect emotions have on team members.This leads to a different way of viewing leadership, one which has at its core the need for a high degree of emotional awareness

Competitive Markov Decision Processes -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Mathematical Programming Perspective -- 2 Markov Decision Processes: The Noncompetitive Case -- 3 Stochastic Games via Mathematical Programming -- Part II Existence, Structure and Applications...

A collection of Ken Binmore's influential papers on bargaining experiments, with the author's newly written commentary addressing the challenges to game theory posed by the behavioral school of economics.

This book gives an analysis of privatization and restructuring by the Treuhandanstalt in East Germany. It also addresses the theoretical and conceptual problems of large-scale privatization in the transformation process

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games...