This work shows that the existence of asymmetry of information on demand is sufficient for us to observe a product cycle in international markets, under certain conditions. In particular, we derive the conditions under which an informed firm can skew the playing field to its advantage and defer entry to future periods in a multi-period game, where two firms – an incumbent and an entrant – compe...

Software product line is a practice that has proven its advantages since it can offer to a company the reduction of time to market, the decrease of development costs, the increase of productivity and the improvement of the final product quality. However, this practice requires a high initial investment and offers long-term risks to dynamic markets where changes are difficult to predict. One of ...

The troubled introduction of an American air computerized reservation system at French Railways reflects the difficulty of transforming European public rail transport into a market-oriented industry. Computerized reservation systems played an important role in supporting increased competition, providing a global strategic advantage and modifying market structures in the US air industry. However...

This paper examines the causes on market concentration in advertisingsupported online markets such as sports, news, and email. In particular, it is the first paper to explore the relationship between concentration and product differentiation, economies of scale, market size, advertising, content costs, and multi-market ownership in online markets. As expected, differentiated large markets with ...