This paper investigates an explanation for a phenomenon observed in the Tokyo condominium market during the 1990s – a persistent price deflation and a spike in output associated with land price depreciation in the context of market structure. Though land price and condominium price were highly correlated throughout the 1990s, a divergence in the two series is observed from 1993 onwards. This di...

Background: Market orientation refers to a type of modern marketing that emphasizes the creation of continuous value for customers and buyers. This research was conducted with the aim of presenting a new model of market orientation with an emphasis on moral implications. Method: The present study was applied and part of mixed research (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population incl...

The demand of market globalization has raised the challenge of semantic interoperation in and between traditional and electronic fragmented markets and driven the development of integration technology. This paper argues that by comparing the cost advantages of technical integration and internationalization in production and distribution, semantic integration technology will lead to an overall s...

A. Misztal, M. Butlewski, A. Jasiak, S. Janik, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland An increasing competition in the foundry market focuses on more efficient methods of production. High quality and efficiency requirements, but also rising labor costs, will make the foundry production largely automated. Currently, molding on automatic lines accounts for 40 % of the foundry production ...

OBJECTIVES The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) anticipated that growing demand for new vaccines could sufficiently impact the vaccines market to allow low-income countries (LICs) to self-finance new vaccines. But the time required to lower vaccine prices was underestimated and the amount that prices would decline overestimated. To better understand how prices in the LIC vac...

We study a duopoly competition where customers have different preferences and one or both firms can offer customized products geared to those preferences. Firms differ in their production costs and customization capabilities. We analyze the effects of these differences and characterize the firms’ strategic process choices. We find that the value of customization to a firm critically depends on ...

rice production in most of asian countries has been increased more rapidly than population and this has been led to increase in supply and proportionately decrease in the real price of rice in world and domestic markets. furthermore, together with growth in production and national gross income of the country per-capita income has been increased and also demand for rice at national and internati...