The major problems that manufacturers and marketers face when using the Internet to manage the global value chain are (1) cannibalization of normal traditional channels sales by Internet based sales; (2) overselling supply, production, and distribution capacities due to the lack of salesperson involvement to apply knowledge about these capacities; (3) misinterpretation of the permanency of the ...

Daily-deal business model is a type of performance-based advertising wherein a publisher provides advertising space to a merchant who pays a proportion of revenue generated on the website to the publisher. We develop a two-period model to capture the strategic interaction between a publisher and a merchant where consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay for quality and awareness a...

We study a major new entry in the French mobile telecommunications market, followed by introduction of fighting brands three incumbents. Using an empirical oligopoly model, we find that incumbents’ brand strategies are difficult to rationalize as unilateral best responses. Instead, their consistent with breakdown tacit semi-collusion: before entry, incumbents could successfully coordinate on re...

We analyze competition in product lines by multi-product oligopolists. The firms are assumed to have preferential access to a local market but can supply the rival’s market by incurring distance or product adaptation costs. We show that the width and degree of overlap in the product lines chosen by these firms is greater in large markets and when the products being offered are viewed by consume...

Retailers of products with limited shelf life are faced with the dilemma of stocking the right mix of standard product and its customized stock keeping units, in each product category. In this paper we model the retailer multi-item inventory problem with demand cannibalization and substitution. The model focuses on the twin problems of optimal portfolio selection as well as optimal stocking und...

The objective of covering set location models consists in designing or modifying a network (commercial shops, antennas, drugstores, etc.) in order to cover totally or partially the demand related to a given area. When an area is covered by several activities (multi coverage), this can improve the responsiveness of the network (in case of congestion traffic for example) but this can also have ne...

This article seeks to position both AI-based activities, and related policy developments, in the global South light of a technology industry with desires for continuous expansion self-governance. The proceeds along three themes. First, using field interviews information (in an anonymised manner), classifies expanding AI activities several core sectors by businesses, governments other agencies i...