Once stable industries that become dynamic industries raise numerous management and economic issues. Population ecology and contingency theories indicate that an incumbent economic organization must reform its organizational structure, production resource and processes, products, and markets if it is to survive (Harman and Freeman, 1977; Tosi, 1984). Survival can take many forms, including reor...

Whereas in the absence of capacity constraints the Cournot outcome is the unique coalition-proof supply function equilibrium outcome, the presence of capacity constraints may enlarge the set of equilibrium outcomes. Interestingly, if capacities are sufficiently asymmetric the new equilibrium prices are below the Cournot price. These results have important implications for merger and privatizati...

Carestream Health is a worldwide provider of dental and medical imaging systems and IS solutions, x-ray and medical printing film, and advanced materials for the precision films and electronics markets. It was formed in 2007when Onex Corporation purchased Kodak’s Health Group. As a part of Kodak, Carestream’s IS infrastructure had been designed to align with a large and complex parent organizat...

Based on the exogenous policy impact of divestiture social functions by state-owned enterprises in China,we select five rounds CFPS survey data and 104 city characteristic to study long-term reduced access public childcare services labor participation behavior women aged 16-55. The results show that decreased will have a significant adverse women’s personal income levels,and job promotion oppor...

The inherent tension between the goals of integration and the assumptions that underlie a competitive marketplace makes antitrust compliance and enforcement a balancing act. This was recently on display in Idaho, where the federal government alleged that a hospital’s acquisition of a physicians’ group would substantially lessen local competition. In January 2014, a federal court agreed and orde...