Online retailers are increasingly using third-party online marketplaces (e.g., Amazon, Taobao) as an alternative sales channel to their website. While cross-channel elasticities have been established for many combinations adding bricks clicks), we lack understanding of whether the use grows or cannibalizes a retailer's sales. Practitioners argue that firms can build e-commerce business through ...

Industry incumbents frequently delay entry into emerging technical subfields, fearing product cannibalization and uncertain investment, and enter only after technical and market uncertainties have subsided. We predict that many incumbents, particularly stronger firms, will participate in alliances with other firms before their standalone entry. The alliances will be used to realize part of the ...

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We study the strategic interaction between the introduction of an online channel by a national brand manufacturer (NBM) and the introduction of store brands by the retailer. We consider three models: (i) the base model without the online channel in the market but the retailer is allowed to introduce the store brand; (ii) the base model without the store brand in the market but the NBM may intro...

T act of trading in a used car as partial payment for a new car resonates with practically all consumers. Such transactions are prevalent in many other durable goods markets, ranging from golf clubs to CT scanners. What roles do trade-ins play in these markets? What motivates the seller to set up a channel to facilitate trade-ins? Intuitively, accepting a trade-in would appear to stimulate dema...

Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) modeling is widely used for finding probabilities of choice among multiple items. The paper considers how to apply BWS data to another problem – of finding the items' cannibalization and synergy. For a product of primary interest, we estimate its probability to be chosen as the best one out of all the data, and also conditionally to each product's presence or absence. F...

Macroautophagy (autophagy hereafter) captures and degrades intracellular proteins and organelles in lysosomes as a quality control mechanism and recycles their components to sustain survival in starvation. Cellular self-cannibalization by autophagy is thought to have a context-dependent role in cancer. Autophagy inactivation is destructive to normal tissues and can promote cancer initiation whi...