A bidder is said to be advantaged if she has a higher expected valuation of the auction prize than her competitor. When the prize has a common-value component, a bidder competing in an ascending auction against an advantaged competitor bids especially cautiously and, hence, the advantaged bidder wins most of the time. However, contrary to what is often argued, a disadvantaged bidder still wins ...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether it is meaningful to decompose market orientation into customer orientation and competitor orientation, and what possible implications this decomposition may have for researchers and business practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of existing market orientation research, two of its salient dimensions, customer orientation an...

It is known that a limit cycle (or periodic coexistence) can occur in a competitor–competitor–mutualist Lotka–Volterra system  ẋ1 = x1(r1 − a11x1 − a12x2 + a13x3), ẋ2 = x2(r2 − a21x1 − a22x2 + a23x3), ẋ3 = x3(r3 + a31x1 + a32x2 − a33x3), where ri , ai j are positive real constants [X. Liang, J. Jiang, The dynamical behavior of type-K competitive Kolmogorov systems and its applications to 3-di...

Recalling a past experience often requires the suppression of related memories that compete with the retrieval target, causing memory impairment known as retrieval-induced forgetting. Two experiments examined how retrieval-induced forgetting varies with the similarity of the competitor and the target item (target-competitor similarity) and with the similarity between the competitors themselves ...

Nowadays companies looking for increase of quality, flexibility and timeliness. One way to achieve these goals is lean thinking. To implementation lean production, companies are looking for waste reduction and Continuous improvement. This article Using the technology acceptance model (TAM) examined whether management accountants’ perceptions of the perceived ease of use (PEOU), or perceived use...