Showrooming, the phenomenon of consumers visiting a brick-and-mortar (B&M) store to
learn about products but then buying online to obtain lower prices, is attracting increased …

We examine if and how incumbent firms respond to entry and entry threats using nonprice
modes of competition. Our analysis focuses on airline service quality. We find that incumbent …

Researchers and managers broadly agree that the entry of third‐party remanufacturers
(TPRs) hurts original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) because of the cannibalization …

We investigate a Cournot model with strategic R&D investments wherein efficient low‐cost
firms compete against less efficient high‐cost firms. We find that an increase in the number …

Two models of competition between high-end and low-end products benefiting the high-end
firms are presented. One is a quantity competition model, and the other is a price …

Recent business research points to the fortune awaiting to be tapped in low-end markets. In
this paper, we investigate how the size of the low-end market influences a firm's profits and …

We investigate the optimal market entry and original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
decisions of a firm facing a market in which firms' brands can be horizontally differentiated …

As mobile devices gain increasing popularity in consumers' shopping journeys, geofencing
mobile advertising is widely used by retailers to convert front traffic, ie, consumers walking in …

Abstract The Customer-to-Manufacturer (C2M) supply chain is an innovative mode in which
the firm quickly producing and providing goods to dispersed end consumers. However, the …

Mixed oligopolies are characterized by private and public enterprises. Previously, entry into
these markets was restrictive. It has since been relaxed by deregulations, and as a result …