type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>It is common sense that refill packs can increase the repeated use of durable goods, reduce resource waste and be conducive to environmental protection. However, their existence also has an economic effect. For instance, we find that the profit of a...</p>

The issue of an optimal licensing contract in firms having different cost structures is studied when the innovator is an insider who produces in the market and has three alternative licensing strategies: fixed fee, royalty, and auction. We only focus on the non-drastic innovation case, because...

The issue of the optimal licensing contract in firms having different cost structures is studied when the innovator is a producing patent holder who has three alternative licensing strategies, namely, the fixed-fee, royalty rate, and auction strategies. We conclude that the auction licensing...

According to the survey of Current Business (Sauers and Argersinger, 2006), the licensing revenue of the United States from abroad has significantly increased from 1975 to 2005 year, showing that international technology licensing is a very important business action. However, the literature...

China's commercial banks have developed at a very rapid speed in recent decades. However, with global economic development slowing down, the impact of gross domestic product growth as an exogenous factor cannot be ignored. Most existing studies only consider the internal factors of banks, and...

Purpose: As more women are now being appointed to senior and top management positions and invited to sit on boards of directors, they are now directly participating in strategic company decision-making. As female directors have been found to provide new ideas, increase company competitiveness,...