There exists increasing competition in the construction industry, forcing contractors to be more cautious in calculating the mark-up for a project. For most contracts, the percent-markup is limited up to a certain range. In a tight bidding environment, the general tendency is even to...

Essay one examines the strategies of supermarket me-too brands. Current research in marketing focuses mainly on the benefits of new feature introduction and overlooks the importance of feature imitation. The prevalence of me-too brands merits investigation. In our sample, for example, there are...

In this thesis we identify and obtain structural results for two different problems that are motivated by electronic commerce infrastructure and bundling of information goods. Strategic implications of implementing a priority pricing scheme in an ATM-like network owned by a single firm is the...

Entrepreneurship has a global impact on the economic growth of local and national economies. This study examines the entrepreneurial process and how it impacts household economic well-being within the different environments of five countries. Secondary survey data from Argentina, India, Russia,...

This dissertation develops a cost benefit framework that explains firms' international entry decisions, accounting for consumer demand for differentiated products, competitors' strategies and distributors' market power. It is used to explain the economics of observed entry patterns of Spanish...

This research explores the economic rationale behind the increasing use of software rentals in the software industry in North America. The first part uses a two period game theoretic model to analyze a monopoly's pricing strategy. The monopoly produces two versions of the software, one in each...

This dissertation deals with two important research problems in computer networks: resource allocation and caching. It consists of three essays in the broad research areas mentioned above. Essay 1 presents a pricing and allocation mechanism for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. A P2P system can be...

This study empirically examined relationships between performance and the international strategy of the firm in multidomestic and global industries. The performance measures used were expert rating, sales growth, return on assets, return on sales, sales to asset ratio, return on equity and stock...

The relative performance evaluation theory suggests that there are benefits associated with evaluating managers on the basis of their relative performances. Prior studies provide theoretical support that an optimal compensation contract is based on a combination of two performance measures: a...

The first essay examines Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing systems by incorporating the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model from operations research into a product market duopoly. We consider a two-stage game in which firms first simultaneously decide whether or not to invest in setup cost...