We study how crowdfunding, as a source of public information, affects competing venture capital (VC) firms' investment decisions, as well as their profitability. Our economy consists of one startup, one crowdfunding platform, and two VC firms with private prior beliefs about the startup's...

We study how crowdfunding, as a source of public information, affects competing venture capital (VC) firms' investment decisions, as well as their profitability. Our economy consists of one startup, one crowdfunding platform, and two VC firms with private prior beliefs about the startup's...

Supplier development and supplier integration are two deeply interconnected strategic tools that manufacturers often employ to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of their supply chains. This paper studies the interaction of these two strategic decisions in a competitive environment....

From the practices of Chinese consumer electronics market, we find there are two key issues in supply chain management: The first issue is the contract type of either wholesale price contracts or consignment contracts with revenue sharing, and the second issue is the decision right of sales...