International small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encounter several problems, including how to manage the industry forces in order to achieve their performance goals. Focusing mainly on international SMEs, we explored this issue by examining competitive advantage as a mediator in the...

This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional...

The present investigation elaborates on the level of game theory application for the applied and theoretical analyses of climate change and development studies. This editorial shows that the common good character of global climate alongside the increasing internalization of environmental...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established a separate Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) in December 2018 to promote more consistent quality and use of economic analysis in its decisions. The agency's reorganization concentrated economists who previously were dispersed across...

Abstract This article reports on the results of a case study that examines the characteristics of the transaction between a plastic producer firm and its supplier of steel injection mold in order to explore the possible effects of asset specificity on the firm�s choice of the transaction...

This paper aims to determine the level of awareness and implementation of measuring CoQ in MIEs in Yemen. In contrast, this study was based on the traditional CoQ Prevention-Appraisal-Failure (PAF) model. Also, this paper proposes a suitable model for measuring CoQ in MIEs based on the research...

Die technologische Überlegenheit der marktwirtschaftlichen Volkswirtschaften gegenüber den ehemaligen Planwirtschaften Osteuropas legt den Gedanken nahe, daß technischer Fortschritt keine planbare Größe sein kann, sondern das Produkt individuellen Wettbewerbsverhaltens sein muß. In der...

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse als externe Wachstumsstrategien treten immer wieder wellenförmig in Erscheinung. Der Untersuchung der letzten bedeutenden Fusionswelle, die Mitte der 1990er Jahre begann und bis zum Jahrtausendwechsel anhielt, widmet sich diese Arbeit. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet...

In order to verify the effects of machine learning in a market structure, an evolutionary model containing firms that use a genetic algorithm to decide their investment in innovative R&D was developed. These firms share the market, with two other types of firms, those with a fixed rate of...

Background: This paper develops a game theoretic model that analyses the dynamics of competition among the leading domestic aviation firms in the Nigerian aviation industry. It probes the abilities of the prisoner dilemma to describe the subjective behaviour of the firms, which provide a...