Vertical Contract Disclosure in Three‐Tier Industries*

Vertical Integration in Media Industries

In recent years convergence in information industries has often taken the form of vertical agreement between different stage of the value chain and with content owners and distribution channels in a prominent position, suggesting an increasing degree of vertical integration. But when considering indicators at firm level, as the value added to revenues ratio, emerges often a reduction in vertica...

Competitive Disadvantage and Discretionary Disclosure in Industries

We explore how competitive disadvantage affects firms’ incentives to disclose or withhold information of common interest to competing firms within a Cournot duopoly. We establish the existence of a unique disclosure equilibrium to the problem of firms disclosing private information about aggregate demand, and show that firms choose to withhold information of either very high or very low demand....

Network Slices for Vertical Industries

Network Slicing allows to simultaneously support the specific needs of vertical industries with a diverse range of networking and computing requirements. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has been defined to deploy multiple network services on a common infrastructure. We extend the NFV concept to vertical services, i.e. services implemented on top of network services and providing the appl...

Interorganizational System Standards Development in Vertical Industries

Interorganizational information system (IOS) standards development in industrial groups is proving to be an extremely productive and effective endeavour. With countless stakeholders, varying opinions and firms that are more accustomed to competition than cooperation, many industrial groups have leveraged the use of a non-profit, voluntaryconsensus, standards development consortium to act as a s...

Disclosure Standards for Vertical Contracts