"In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity. In the case of an increasing frequency of blackouts, a firm may change factor shares in a number of ways. It may decide to self generate electricity, to purchase intermediate...

Fostering and maintaining buyer–supplier relationships is a fundamental premise of many channel initiatives. Indeed, these relationships may culminate in significant performance enhancements and competitive advantage. Yet these relationships may also result in competitively harmful events such...

The objective of this article is to review the academic marketing research that develops and tests theories involving the vertical relationships between manufacturers and retailers in a distribution channel

A newsvendor game studies whether players can collaborate on inventory pooling, where the cost allocation is usually analyzed by the notion of core in cooperative game theory. It is known that the core of the newsvendor game is non-empty and one can use duality theory in stochastic programming...

Purpose– The paper aims to examine the nature of competition within an industry by proposing and examining three separate sources of competitive heterogeneity: the strategies that industry members use, the performance that they obtain, and how effectively the strategies are utilized to obtain...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to integrate aspects of the literature on strategic and performance groups and explicitly derive strategic/performance groups which exhibit differences with respect to both strategy and performance, as well as display associations and potential...