T transfer to low-cost locations offers global firms an opportunity to reduce their variable costs involved in serving emerging markets. However, such moves may also make imitation by local competitors easier. As a consequence, technology transfer may create competition in the local market. We introduce component-based technology transfer for the global firm as a means to deter or accommodate t...

The impact of strategies used to appropriate innovation rents on firm performance is analyzed using a sample of U.S. public manufacturing firms. Stronger appropriability at the firm level, achieved through patent protection or the ownership of specialized complementary assets, leads to superior economic performance, as measured by the stock market valuation of a firm’s R&D assets. Among commonl...

This article presents a simple model to determine the location strategies of two retail firms planning to open a number of stores in a geographical market. Firms try to maximize their profit under a leader-follower type competition in which the number of stores is made endogenous by the introduction of fixed costs. A novel methodology is developed, in which firms’ strategies are defined in term...

this paper aims to evaluate the impact of several indices of market structure including entry to barrier, economies of scale and concentration degree on 140 active industries using the digit. accordingly, we apply three methods including cost disadvantages ratio ( ), herfindahl–hirschman concentration index ( ) and comanor and willson criterion in order to assess the economies of scale and usin...

selecting a set of features and price for new product is one of the most important and difficult decisions for any firm. for its implementation firms require information by demand of consumers about product features,the cost of providing these features and reaction of existing competitors to new product entry. in this research, with the help of game theory, the various positions of new product ...

That multinational enterprises entering a new market must adapt their strategies to the host country environment has been a hallmark finding in the international business literature. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the adaptation of these strategies to the demands of the institutions in the host economies (Oxley, 1999; Peng, 2000). Institutions are important for the funct...