Matsushima, Noriaki; Ogawa, Susumu - Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University - 2007
In general, the disclosure of know-how and technological knowledge could harm the disclosing firm. Firms, however … know-how disclosure. We consider a multiproduct oligopolistic market in which an incumbent firm that can disclose its cost … A. We show that the disclosure of know-how for cost reduction can enhance the profit of the incumbent (the disclosing …