s Many types of business are rapidly growing in a social network service market. Social network could achieve brisk growth due to social network game (SNG). As users of SNG increase substantially, people are paying attention to profits making from users’ game item purchases. Thus, this research examines what make SNG users purchase items. First, we selected flow as antecedent of item purchase i...

This short note prepared for an OECD meeting in June 2021 examines several antitrust issues involving analysis of potential competition. While the is not new, it still useful to collect them together a unified fashion show how they are related. In this regard, all and conclusions flow from overarching (and obvious) points that exclusionary conduct agreements maintain monopoly power very often h...

If workers have concerns for local status, it seems plausible that firms can increase their profits by exploiting the competitive nature of their employees. This paper shows, contrary to expectations, that firms may not be able to do that; in fact, firm profits are reduced by the workers’ choices of relative concerns. In doing so, this paper also offers an explanation for why agents might exhib...

In the last decade the emergence of new social needs as an effect of the economic crisis has stimulated the flourishing of business endeavours characterised by explicit social goals. Social start-ups, social enterprises or Corporate Social Responsibility operations carried out by traditional companies are quintessential examples in this regard. This paper analyses these kinds of initiatives in ...

Emergence of green supply chain management could be attributed to the rising public awareness of environmental problems. Consumers say they increasingly prefer to purchase products that are produced with a minimum of pollution and with minimal environmental impact. Therefore, companies that successfully adopt a green policy can generate profits, reduce environmental impact, and provide positive...