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We consider a supply chain in which one manufacturer sells a seasonal product to the end market through a retailer. Faced with uncertain market demand and limited capacity, the manufacturer can maximize its profits by adopting one of two strategies, namely, wholesale price rebate or capacity expansion. In the former, the manufacturer provides the retailer with a discount for accepting early del...

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Introduction Schools have seen significant reforms that have been linked to school improvement and effectiveness. These reforms have led to a situation where teachers have been the focus of school improvement. Systemic measures, such as strategic management, whole cohort testing and target setting have been developed to ensure that necessary reforms occur to improve student’s learning. What is ...

The accompanying article argues strongly for the proposition that a hotel’s business strategy is related to its human resources policies. However, the conceptual framework in the article does not go into sufficient depth; nor does it seem to reflect existing research on HR system flexibility, that is, the extent to which employees can be directed to address a wide range of business activities.

We propose an argumentation strategy for generating evaluative arguments that can be applied in systems serving as personal assistants or advisors. By following guidelines from argumentation theory and by employing a quantitative model of the user's preferences, the strategy generates arguments that are tailored to the user, properly arranged and concise. Our proposal extends the scope of previ...

We examine the e¤ect of ambiguity in symmetric games with aggregate external-ities. We …nd that ambiguity will increase/decrease the equilibrium strategy in games withstrategic complements/substitutes and positive externalities. These e¤ects are reversed ingames with negative externalities. We consider some economic applications of these resultsto Cournot oligopoly, bargaining, ...

A key success factor for a successful company in a dynamic environment is effective and efficient information technology (IT) supporting business strategies and processes. In recent surveys however IT executives consistently name IT to Business alignment their top-concern. The alignment between business needs and IT capabilities is therefore still a prominent area of concern. This paper aims to...

This paper presents a model of the introduction of a product line that consists of a high-end model and a low-end model, under conditions of demand uncertainty. The firm is a-priori uncertain about the demand for the product line, which can turn out to be either high or low. The firm learns of the actual demand conditions only after at least one product in the line has been introduced. We start...

Dunleavy for comments and suggestions. Many thanks to the officials and public managers at the European Commission Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (Trademarks and Design) (OHIM)who gave generously of their time and expertise in the development of the case study.