Individual retailers may choose to invest in a substitute dominant supplier’s products (inside option) as way of improving its position towards the supplier. Given that large retailer has stronger investment incentives than smaller rival, obtain selective rebate (size-based price discrimination). Yet, we often observe suppliers do not discriminate between differ size. Why is this so? We argue e...

the study of entrepreneurial orientation concept and codifying a proper strategy to improve the performance of companies has a great importance as the companies have allocated more product market share to themselves by representing new and unique products according to customers’ requirements. the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and competitive strat...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate effect of porter`s competitive strategies tomeet customer market orientation needs in petrochemical firms. given the numbers ofproducts of this company, this study examine polyethylene products, so the impact of 3porter`s strategies, differentiation strategy, focus strategy, cost leadership strategy,evaluate in response to market orientation needs of thi...

We study the effects of various incentive schemes on the learning behavior of teams in an artificial factory. Modeling the new product development process, we demonstrate, how production and marketing agents learn to coordinate their actions in order to produce the optimal product with respect to their incentive schemes. As a coordinating mechanism between marketing and production, we use the H...

Employment Protection and Product Market Competition by Sebastian Kessing A firm facing employment protection will defend its market position more fiercely than a firm operating without such restrictions. However, ex ante it will be more reluctant to expand its market position. For the benchmark case of contest competition, the defensive effect dominates. A firm facing employment protection has...

ABC Parcel Services is a leader in package delivery via ground and air shipping. It has provided services internationally as well as in all the 50 United States for almost 100 years. At the beginning of 2001, the CEO and the management of the company were faced with an unusual fiercely competitive market and rapidly changing customer requirements. The automation implemented thus far did not jus...

remanufacturing is an industrial process that makes used products reusable. remanufacturing is a way to establish a closed-loop supply chain. one of the important aspects in both reverse logistics and remanufacturing is pricing of returned and remanufactured products (called cores) that it has been noticed in this paper. in addition, in this paper the researchers have tried to present a mathema...

In today's fast-paced, fiercely competitive world of commercial new product development, speed and flexibility are essential. Companies are increasingly realizing that the old, sequential approach to developing new products simply won't get the job done. Instead, companies in Japan and the United States are using a holistic method—as in rugby, the ball gets passed within the team as it moves as...