The increasing velocity of international transactions; the technology-enhanced growing interconnectedness people, business, and societies; and, finally, escalating density day-to-day business interactions are key sources challenges that organizations, both in public private sectors, facing today [...]

The rising prices of pharmaceuticals have generated considerable, and often acrimonious, debate. Yet, there is little theoretical work or empirical evidence on pharmaceutical entry-pricing strategies or on the time paths of the prices of new entrants versus incumbents. This study explores the entry pricing strategies of pharmaceutical manufacturers. Previous theoretical models have considered a...

Conventionally, manufacturing firms determine the time to introduce a new product to the market long before launching the product. As the rate of technological innovation increases, product life cycles become shorter, and the timing for introducing a new product becomes more important. As a result, firms need to dynamically determine the market entry timing depending on the evolution of uncerta...

We analyze the entry of a new product into a vertically differentiated market in which an entrant and an incumbent compete in prices. Here the entry-deterrence strategies of the incumbent firm rely on “limit qualities.” With a sequential choice of quality, a quality-dependent marginal production cost, and a fixed entry cost, we relate the entry-quality decision and the entry-deterrence strategi...

In the last few years there has been much interest in the delivery of software-as-a-service. The concept of the remote delivery of software by Application Service Providers (ASPs) has captured the imagination of many academics, practitioners and technology analysts. Yet analyst predictions and expectations with respect to the growth of this new e-business model have not been realised. Although ...

The paper concentrates on four aspects of mitigating market power in European electricity networks: capacity divestiture, entry, promoting interconnection, and the capacity to regulate competition in generation, drawing on lessons from Britain, California and the Continent. Each of these actions can improve the intensity of competition in electricity wholesale markets, but attractive strategies...

Do foreign banks have different entry strategies in China? This paper tries to answer this question through the study of strategic entry behaviour of the foreign multinational banks (MNBs) investing in the Chinese banking sector. The study is grounded in the eclectic theoretical paradigm based on which a conceptual framework is developed. Using case study method and content analysis of intervie...