Electronic commerce (EC) researchers are divided between those who show how EC can cause intense Bertrand competition and those who show an absence of this competition. This research takes a more central stance to show when intense competition occurs and when collusion occurs in an EC environment. We present a multi-industry investigation of competition and collusion related to firm pricing beh...

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

Scholars have grown concerned that the commercialization of academic science is increasing secrecy at the expense of cooperation and information sharing. Using data from comparable surveys of academic scientists in three fields (experimental biology, mathematics and physics), we test whether scientists have become more competitive and more secretive over the last 30 years. We also use the recen...

Abstract As China has made it a top priority to enrich and upgrade its chip capabilities across the value chain, some international observers predict that China's semiconductor industry will eventually, if not immediately, surpass foreign competitors. Others remain skeptical about presumed tech supremacy for plausible but largely speculative reasons. Is Chinese game-changer or paper tiger? indi...

Binding of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) to its cell-surface-bound receptor uPAR and upregulation of the plasminogen activation system (PAS) correlates with increased metastasis and poor prognosis in several tumour types. Disruptors of the uPA:uPAR interaction represent promising anti-tumour/metastasis agents and several approaches have been explored for this purpose, including...

Taking the international competitiveness of China's aerospace manufacturing industry as research object (Hereinafter abbreviated IC-AMI), this paper classifies and sorts out relevant literature industrial competitiveness, China’s IC-AMI, believes that existing still has expandable potential. First all, no scholar yet conducted a quantitative analysis factors influencing IC-AMI. Second, there is...

This article analyzes the effect of competition on a supermarket firm's incentive to provide product quality. In the supermarket industry, product availability is an important measure of quality. Using U.S. Consumer Price Index microdata to track inventory shortfalls, I find that stores facing more intense competition have fewer shortfalls. Competition from Walmart—the most significant shock to...