Nowadays, to achieve sustainable development, many developing countries are worrying about the deteriorating lock-in issues of high carbon. Therefore, policies including tax break, consumer green education, and subsidy for green production are set out to motivate multinational firms (MNFs) to...

Humans tend to make time-inconsistent intertemporal choices and exhibit naivete about their self-control in the future, a human tendency identified and confirmed in behavioral economics and marketing literature as “present-biased preferences”. New service operations business models betting...

Motivated by Google's technology regulation practice in Android device industry, we consider firms' decisions on production timing in a co-opetitive supply chain comprising a manufacturer and an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), where the manufacturer acts as the OEM's upstream contract...

Confronting dominant retailers, brand-owners are reported increasingly ally with the dominant retailers or ally with other brand-owners. To study brand-owners' alliance strategies, we consider a bilateral duopoly setting comprising two brand-owners and two dominant retailers. The brand-owners'...