The innovation processes and especially the evolution of information and communication technology in the corporation environment from the service field have radically transformed the service production and delivery processes. These transformations add value for the customer and offer important...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2023 dreizehn Jahre alt. Dieser 13. Jahresbericht informiert über das dreizehnte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2022/23 und das Sommersemester 2023. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut und...

Italian Abstract: Dopo aver definito la differenziazione verticale come una caratterizzazione oggettiva della qualità che da luogo ad una indiscutibile utilità o produttività marginale crescente nella qualità, utilizzando il modello classico di Shaked e Sutton vengono determinati prezzi e...

The Internet technologies and applications have rapidly developed, opening new communication, collaboration and coordination means for consumers, commercial agents and business partners. What have initially begun as static personal web pages containing family photos or simple presentation sites...

Italian Abstract: Note sui modelli classici di strategie di differenziazione orizzontale del prodotto con costi di trasporto lineari Hotelling (1929) e quadratici D'Aspremont, Gabsewicz e Thisse (1979). Vengono studiati i risultati dovuti ad imprese con funzioni di costo diverse. Segue una...

Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i classici risultati dei modelli di oligopolio con beni differenziati sia sostituti che complementari a mosse simultanee, sequenziali e colllusive, con variabile strategica quantità o prezzo. L'utilizzo di funzioni lineari permette di calcolare, disegnare e...

Current AACSB accreditation Standards require member institutions to incorporate the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into their curriculum. The problem with this requirement is that the SDG constitute mostly erroneous economics. Professors who must incorporate SDG into...

The new economics of multi-sided platforms involves a number of concepts that are familiar to economists as well as some new ones. This glossary, which is drawn from our book Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multi-sided Platforms, is an attempt to put together the main concepts and to provide...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2023 dreizehn Jahre alt. Dieser 13. Jahresbericht informiert über das dreizehnte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2022/23 und das Sommersemester 2023. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut und...

The reserve for loan losses may be influenced by the information content of the provision for loan losses. The information content or signalling of the provision for loanlosses are a mean for bank managers to "signal" their private information with respect to loan quality. Borrowers must have...