This paper analyzes the effect of landowner risk preferences and land quality on the optimal mix of vertically integrated production and contracted production of an energy crop in a region characterized by heterogeneity in landowners’ risk preferences and land quality and with riskiness of returns from both energy crop and conventional crop production. We examine the determinants of the decisio...

in era of service economy, organizations' success depends significantly on providing quality services. therefore, organizations are in the idea of employing tools such as knowledge management to survive. human activities such as knowledge sharing among organizational members are the foundation of knowledge management in organizations. recent studies have shown that the relational psychological ...

We analyze the benefit of service capacity pooling for a set of independent firms. Firms have the choice of either operating their own service facilities or investing in a facility that is shared. Firms decide on capacity levels to minimize delay and capacity investment costs. If firms decide to operate a shared facility they must also decide on a scheme for sharing the cost of capacity and on ...

This study considers a manufacturer with ambidextrous sustainable innovation capability selling products in environmentally conscious market through an independent retailer two-period game setting. We design theoretic and dyadic supply chain (SC) model considering exploitative exploratory nature of environmental innovations. five different contract types, namely, wholesale price contract, verti...

In a cost-sharing problem, finitely many players have an unknown preference for some non-rivalrous but excludable good (service). The task is to determine which set of players Q to serve and how to distribute the incurred cost C(Q). Typical constraints of cost-sharing problems demand for mechanisms that elicit truthful bids, balance the budget (i.e., recover the incurred cost with the prices ch...

Daily-deal business model is a type of performance-based advertising wherein a publisher provides advertising space to a merchant who pays a proportion of revenue generated on the website to the publisher. We develop a two-period model to capture the strategic interaction between a publisher and a merchant where consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay for quality and awareness a...

The inherent nature of construction projects is long duration and high cost. Extended project leads to escalation If the too long, initial estimation may not be sufficient recover actual cost contract. To address this problem, Construction Industry Development Authority (CIDA) has introduced a price adjustment method called “ICTAD formula for adjustments contract due fluctuation in prices”. Con...