Franchising organizations were prevalent for uniform offline stores, but nowadays they face severe challenges from third-party online competitors. While the literature mainly consists of studies that focus on within-franchise relationships and the encroachment of an individual franchisor's...

This Article addresses an important question in modern antitrust: when large investment funds have holdings across an industry, is competition depressed?The question of the impact of common ownership on competition has gained much attention as the role of institutional shareholding has grown,...

This paper is the first to consider online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines (PFFB). The scheduling model is motivated by manufacturing processes of individualized medicaments, which are used in modern medicine to treat some serious illnesses. We...

Concerns around the anti-competitive effects of common ownership by institutional investors in competing firms have previously been raised by scholars. Recent empirical evidence has further fueled the debate, causing the European Commission to use common ownership as an ‘element of context’...

Decision-making about startups' business models is highly dependent on available information, and the role of data analytics capabilities in business model innovation has been emphasized. Today's competitive intelligence tools such as Alexa, Google Analytics, Similarweb, NexLab TrackEngine, etc....

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of knowledge sharing on the relationship between competitive intelligence and product development. A cross-sectional design was used in this study. Using a random sample of 178 general managers from the chemical manufacturing sector...