New Products and Existing Product Portfolio Management -- Investment in Facility Flexibility for Early Market Entry Under Competitive Uncertainty -- Demand Modeling in Product Line Trimming: Substitutability and Variability -- Supply Chain Coordination -- Coordinated Pricing and...

In this paper we investigate how to make empirical generalizations in marketing. We argue that for substantive empirical generalizations to exist in an area, there should be a sufficient body of research about recurring phenomena. We outline criteria and a procedure to search for and identify...

There has been a call to investigate the negotiation process (Gale [Gale, D. 1986. Bargaining and competition part I: Characterization. Econometrica 54(4) 785--806.], Shubik [Shubik, M. 1982. Game Theory in the Social Sciences: Concepts and Solutions. M. I. T. Press, Boston, MA.]), as it is felt...

Von Neumann-Morgenstern (vN-M) utility theory is the dominant theoretical model of risk preference. Recently, market researchers have adapted vN-M theory to model consumer risk preference. But, most applications assess utility functions by asking just n questions to specify n parameters....

Movie studios often have to choose among thousands of scripts to decide which ones to turn into movies. Despite the huge amount of money at stake, this process--known as green-lighting in the movie industry--is largely a guesswork based on experts' experience and intuitions. In this paper, we...