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Multiunit dynamic pricing with different types of observable customer information
In various sectors, such as retail, firms encounter customers with multiunit demand and often implement nonlinear pricing to accommodate this demand...
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Managing coopetition in multi-unit organizations: a management-control perspective
This study investigates the management of internal coopetitive tensions among business units (BUs) in multiunit organizations from a...
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Social influence and channel competition in the live-streaming market
We study the impacts of social influence on the stakeholders in the live-streaming market by considering a one-to-two channel in which a common...
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Mitigating the negative effect of intrabrand clustering: the role of interbrand clustering and firm size
Clustering—geographic concentrations of entities—has recently received more attention in marketing research and has been shown to affect multiple...
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From franchisee experience to customer experience: their effects on franchisee performance
Despite the importance of experience, the question of whether and how a franchisee’s operating experience affects performance remains undertheorized....
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A Globalized Civilization: Ascendancy, Contradictions and Interdependence
In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels detected a profound change in the human condition. Central to this transformation, they...
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Managing the “4Ps” in Culturally Distant Countries: From Theory to Business Practice
This chapter complements the theoretical underpinnings put forward in the previous sections of the book with actual business practice, analyzing case...
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Branding Strategy
Strategy is an approach in consonance with the goal the company wants to achieve. The strategies are formulated for the short and long run according...
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CSR—In Pursuit of Sustainable Growth and Economic Development
Objective: This paper explores vital aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in contemporary business scenario in order to...
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Retail Store Image Research-A Critical Review
This paper reviews previous attempts to study retail store image. It focuses on the conceptual problems one encounters in this area. Five issues...
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Use: Implementation Issues
In this chapter we discuss several issues that are related to the actual use of a model. We first examine the determinants of model implementation...
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Top-down decentralization and the folly of power
Ackoff’s typology of machine, organism, and social-system concepts may give the impression that this sequence also represents the natural evolution...
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Indian Ethos as Humanistic Management Principles: A Case Study of a Family Business Organization
Indian ethos in management draws heavily from Vedantic wisdom. Rigveda (ancient Indian text) says ‘let noble thoughts come to us from every side’....
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Process-Based Fundamentals
Chapter 6 introduces concepts of global business process, business process design, business process reengineering, and business process management,...
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Learning from age difference: Interorganizational learning and survival in Japanese foreign subsidiaries
This paper extends research on experiential learning of foreign subsidiaries by exploring the temporal conditions under which a foreign subsidiary...
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Case Eight: Lennar Homes – Surviving Death and Recession
The research for this case was done by Octavio Barahona and Jeloika Cruz which was pulled from public data available on Lennar Corporation and its...
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The assessment of retailing efficiency using Network Data Envelopment Analysis
This paper describes a method for the assessment of retail store performance based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The assessment considers the...
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Transforming the Government Value Chain: Emerging Business Models and Enabling Technologies
The aim of this chapter is to present a structured study of the e-government phenomenon by implementing a holistic research approach which starts by...
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Sequencing and Scheduling in Robotic Cells: Recent Developments
A great deal of work has been done to analyze the problem of robot move sequencing and part scheduling in robotic flowshop cells. We examine the...
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Towards a More General Theory of Franchise Governance
This chapter examines the nature of franchising and various business practices in terms of economic governance systems. Markets versus hierarchies,...