Twenty years ago, there were all but a handful of scholarly studies published about the
economics of the motion picture industry. Over the first decade of the new millennium, this …

At its heart this book is about innovation and the innovation process. On the way, it considers
aesthetics, design, creativity and the creative industries, and a number of other similar …

We study competition as an impetus for firms to reposition—to abandon their current
positioning strategy and adopt a new one. We predict that as a strong firm moves closer …

Drawing on competition, signalling and agglomeration perspectives, we investigate how
vertical and horizontal differentiation influence price, and how hotel competition and …

In the Internet economy, digital platforms have become vital information and business
infrastructure and reshaped the competition environment. Online-to-offline (O2O) platforms …

This paper examines pairwise assortment similarities at US supermarkets to understand
how assortment composition and size are related to underlying factors that describe local …

We empirically study the impact of the entry of a new theater on two important product
decisions that incumbents in the movie exhibition industry face:(1) whether to invest in …

Online to offline (O2O) platforms have been widely used in practice, enabling consumers to
search for information and purchase products or services online and then consume offline …

Movies vary widely in appeal, star power, cost, and other elements, and therefore, each
might be expected to charge a different price. Multiplexes, however, typically charge the …

This study explores the impact of demand-side usage of digital platforms on operational
decision-making by supply-side firms. The positive impact of digital platforms on product …