Abstract Research shows that marketing investments play a pivotal role in firm’s own bankruptcy. However, there are even more firms not confronting bankruptcy themselves yet face spillovers from rival’s For such firms, it remains unknown whether their affect these spillovers. We show that, contrast to generally positive effects other contexts, advertising and R&D can either help or harm the...

The objective of the study examines the impact of industrialization and financial development on water resources, in the specific context of Pakistan. Data set from 19752009 are taken for time series analysis. The result reveals that economic growth positively linked with the water resource, as water plays a pivotal role in the economic development of a country. Thus limiting this resource woul...

This primarily conceptual paper introduces 'Co-opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks' (CoLKENs) as a specific context for decision making. CoLKENs play a pivotal role within our global, increasingly knowledge based society and shape knowledge sharing processes among their members and organizations. The inherent balancing act between cooperation and competition requires designing an...

We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal suppliers and inelastic demand. The price increase can be traced back to an abuse of the auction’s pay-a...

Executive Overview We propose that the study of organization design has been unduly neglected in recent years despite its critical importance for organizational performance. We point to the daunting complexity of the subject matter as a pivotal reason why researchers have turned to other questions. In this paper, we argue that the complexity of design can be successfully approached through the ...

the purpose of this article is to evaluate the pivotal irrigated wheat project by cost-benefit analysis method in order to find the internal rate of return and the ratio of present value of net benefits to costs.to this end, we have estimated the economic surplus created due to shift in wheat supply , as result ofimplementation ofthe project and have calculated the above criteria. we found that...

The literature on strategic management recognizes the pivotal role played by innovation as a choice in organizations order to create sustainable competitive advantage. However, although there are emerging calls for adoption of firm’s process, concept is not well understood. scanty empirical reviewed has methodological and conceptual gaps that affect generalizability findings even similar contex...

Natural resource studies have dwindled in recent years with little attention being paid to this industry despite its pivotal role on the worlds financial exchanges and its ability to thrive while the rest of the economy falters. Economics has not developed a model of mining that both captures the economic constraints on mining firms, as well as the geological nature of ore reserves. In this pap...

The value of delayed differentiation (aka postponement) for a monopolist has been extensively studied in the Operations literature. We analyze the case of (imperfectly) competitive markets with demand uncertainty, wherein the choice of supply chain configuration (early/delayed differentiation) is endogenous to the competing firms. We characterize firms’ choices in equilibrium and analyze the ef...