entstehen Wettbewerber, die sich wegen ihrer komplexen Organisationsstruktur anders verhalten als jedes der einzelnen …

In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modeled as single decision makers and the internal … can not generally expect that the behavior of teams is equivalent to the behavior of individuals in Cournot competition … theoretical foundation for the unitary player assumption in Cournot competition. We show that this assumption is robust in …

The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single … competition when aggregated firm data is used. …

We investigate the strategic impact of exible delivery frequencieson the competition of logistics service providers …

acquire an existing firm than to compete? We illustrate the answer by considering competition inthe banking sector..... …

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …

In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing …

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative … relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the … investments of leaders than those of laggards. When R&D-spillovers are strong, competition is less likely to increase investments …