Th e paper examines the host country-specifi c factors as determinants of hotel chains' market presence in a destination. Th ree types of hotel chains' market presence are identifi ed – absolute market presence (number of chain affi liated hotels/rooms), relative market presence (share of affi liated hotels/rooms in the total number of hotels/rooms in a destination) and market presence intensit...

Wider scientific community now accept that the threat of climate change as real and thus acknowledge the importance of implementing adaptation measures in a global context. In the UK, the physical effects of climate change are likely to be directly felt in the form of extreme weather events, which are predicted to escalate in number and severity in future under the changing climatic conditions....

The concept of the circular economy (CE) has gained importance worldwide recently since it offers a wider perspective in terms promoting sustainable production and consumption with limited resources. However, few studies have investigated barriers to CE food supply chains. Accordingly, this paper presents systematic literature review 136 papers from 2010 2020 WOS Scopus databases regarding thes...

This report uses data on individual smart phones as well industry to identify which smartphone firms capture the most value. It finds that Apple captures of profits, thanks its high prices, large profit margins and volume iPhone sales worldwide. Apple’s success is explained a result ability develop own intellectual property (IP) take advantage IP created by suppliers through strategy selling on...

In this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. Each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. Therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

Our main objective is to investigate the influence of the bargaining power within a chain on its industry. As a building block, we first discuss the implications of bargaining within a single chain by considering an asymmetric Nash bargaining on the wholesale price (BW). We show that both Manufacturer Stackelberg (MS) and VI strategies are special cases of the BW contract. We then develop the N...