The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of a firm’s strategy to invest in a conflict location. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been done before. We examine this using a standard model of international business, overlaid with the fundamental approach to corporate social responsibility. We start with the population of multinationals who have chosen to invest in low inc...

The threat of information security breaches is omnipresent. Large organizations such as Sony or Lockheed Martin were recently attacked and lost confidential customer information. Besides targeted attacks, virus and malware infections, lost or stolen laptops and mobile devices, or the abuse of the organizational IT through employees, to name but a few, also put the security of assets in jeopardy...

When sellers are privately informed about quality, signaling models can successfully explain an equilibrium correlation between prices and exogenous quality but do not account for incentives to invest in quality improvement. This paper shows that sellers may be motivated to invest in quality if consumers, though initially uninformed, may acquire costly information before buying. The equilibrium...

In the following, we assume, without loss of generality, that for all players i, Ri > 0, δi > 0, pi > 0, and αi > 0. Given a joint mixed-strategy x, we partition the players by type w.r.t. x: let I ≡ I(x) ≡ {i | xi = 1}, N ≡ N(x) ≡ {i | xi = 0}, and P ≡ P (x) ≡ {i | 0 < xi < 1} be the set of players that fully invest in protection, do not invest in protection, and partially invest in protection...

This study investigated the mechanical properties and single crown accuracy of the tailor-made Fourth University Stomatology investment (FUS-invest) for casting titanium. Background. Current investment for casting titanium is not optimal for obtaining high-quality castings, and the commercially available titanium investment is costly. Methods. Titanium specimens were cast using the tailor-made ...