A of distribution consists of different channel members each having his own decision variables. However, each channel member’s decisions do affect the other channel members’ profits and, as a consequence, actions. A lack of coordination of these decisions can lead to undesirable consequences. For example, in the simple manufacturer-retailer-consumer channel, uncoordinated and independent channe...

The theory of corporate social responsibility holds that a company must not only fulfill its economic responsibility of making profits for its shareholders, but also undertake broad legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities. The notion of corporate social responsibility is most vulnerable to the argument that fulfillment of social responsibility will affect the company’s financial perfo...

Previous studies on “tying” are based on the premise that there are clear boundaries between tied products. However, in the computing industry there are constant battles over boundaries between complementary products. A dominant firm in one layer of a multilayered system usually attempts to extend into other layers by including some of the latter’s functions into its own products. For instance,...

With more internet giants develop online shopping platform, the credit of platform has become the key point of competitive advantages. The sellers are the supplier of credit, while the platform is the supervisor of credit. Game model is built to study the factors affect the seller’s credit supply and the platform’s supervision intensity. We draw suggestions about how to optimize the credit supp...

JOHN CHRISTENSEN AND RICHARD MURPHY ABSTRACT Tax revenues are the lifeblood of democratic government and the social contract, but the majority of multinational businesses have been structured so as to enable tax avoidance in every jurisdiction in which they operate. John Christensen and Richard Murphy of the tax justice network argue that policy measures are required to redress the distortions ...

We provide an extensive and general investigation of the effects on industry performance (profits and social welfare) of exogenously changing the number of firms in a Cournot framework. This amounts to an in-depth exploration of the well-known trade-off between competition and production efficiency. We establish that under scale economies, welfare is maximized by a finite number of firms. Our r...

This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, we categorize accounting, economic and ethically-based rationales that differ from the profitmaximizing recommendation...