Abstract As the use of AI systems continues to increase, so do concerns over their lack fairness, legitimacy and accountability. Such harmful automated decision-making can be guarded against by ensuring are contestable design: responsive human intervention throughout system lifecycle. Contestable design is a small but growing field research. However, most available knowledge requires significan...

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies adopted by urban consolidation centres on competition between logistics service providers. Taking into consideration pollution charges issued city councils to reduce CO 2 emissions in freight distribution, we study a Hotelling-like market setting where providers could voluntarily outsource last mile ...

The main idea of this paper is to discuss the ICCS 2009 framework (Schulz et al. 2008) in order to explore possible changes for the ICCS 2016 framework. The most important problem to consider is how to deal with the fact that civic and citizenship education (hereafter CCE) is both a contested matter and a contestable matter. The paper proposes to establish a meta-consensus accepting ‘contestedn...

We develop a spatial model of oligopolistic competition in which firms simultaneously choose franchise locations and prices, and consumers receive uncorrelated firmspecific location shocks. Remarkably, when firms only differ along the endogenous contestable spatial dimension, they earn zero profits: while ex-post consumer heterogeneity ensures positive gross profits, competition for market shar...

In the past, full-service stock brokerage firms had a strategic advantage over discount brokers because of the control full-service brokers had over the information provided to the customer. Full-service stockbrokers acted as information intermediaries in that they were able to capture residual value from the transfer of information to make a profit. Strategic vulnerability occurs, in this case...

The aim of this essay is to select the best framework to asses the effect regulationpolicy has on banks' corporate strategy. The review of competing hypothesis findsContestable Market Theory the most suitable vehicle to perform that assessment. TheMexican case illustrates empirical applications. The paper’s contribution is pointing outthe areas most needed of attention. Succinct...

Establishing balanced and sustainable development is critical for improving banks’ capability performance. Financial has enormous significance in an environment of increasingly contestable international markets, can be achieved by enhancing banking efficiency The bank estimated through data envelopment analysis (DEA). By applying the quantile regression technique, this research examines impact ...