Matched product data is collected from the leading online grocers in U.S. The same exact products are identified scanner data. paper documents pricing strategies within and across (and offline) retailers. First, retailers exhibit substantially less uniform than offline Second, price differentiation competing chains narrow geographies higher Third, variation elasticities, shipping distance, freq...

articular cartilage, the load-bearing tissue of the joint, has limited repair and regeneration ability. the scarcity of treatment modalities for large chondral defects has motivated researchers to engineer cartilage tissue constructs that can meet the functional demands of this tissue in vivo. cartilage tissue engineering requires 3 components: cells, scaffold, and environment. owning to their ...

While sustainability has been identified as a critical driver of innovation, our understanding green innovation activities interrelationship with capability antecedents and consequences both exploration exploitation remains unclear. A preliminary framework is developed to guide hypotheses provide insights into its connections new product advantage from Resource-Advantage (R-A) perspective. samp...

The example of the youth mobile phone market is used for pilot empirical testing of a model of consumers’ decision making, based on common features of consumer behaviour in mature markets of information and high technology products. Firstly, we discuss the key properties of mature high technology markets which affect market behaviour and strategies. These properties include: established custome...

The existing literaturewhich analyses the relationship between the product differentiation degree and the sustainability of a collusive agreement on price assumes that firms cannot price discriminate, and concludes that there is a negative relationship between the product differentiation degree and the critical discount factor. This paper, in contrast, assumes that firms are able to price discr...

In this note we construct a simple international differentiated duopoly model that involves a divisionalization decision. It will be shown that the number of third market divisions of a parent firm with a cost advantage is relatively large. The results imply that the cost competitiveness of one country’s firm will be magnified through divisionalization decisions.