today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s theories, ap...

We study competition between two multi-product firms with distinct production technologies in a market where customers have heterogeneous preferences on a single taste attribute. The mass customizer (MC) has a perfectly flexible production technology, thus can offer any variety within a product space, represented by Hotelling’s (1929) linear city. The mass producer (MP) has a more focused produ...

the process of globalization is changing the world economically, politicaly, socially and culturally. globalization in the general sense is the greater integration of the national economies in the world and it is a much discussed phenomenon. greater integration has many effects on the structure of production in national economies, the roleof multinational corporation and foreign direct investme...

This paper proposes a model for dynamic pricing that combines knowledge of production capacity and existing commitments, reasoning about uncertainty and learning of market conditions in an attempt to optimise expected profits. In particular, the changing market conditions are represented as a set of probabilities over the success rate of product prices. The dynamic pricing model is integrated i...

in many countries, particularly developing countries, economic reforms, especially privatization, are considered as a strategic approach. the growth of the government decreases the competition in the market, and so, some fields should be privatized in order to create the competition.  by moving towards privatization and the changes in competition methods and the presentation of the world trade,...