This study investigates environmental R&D (ER&D) risk choice by polluting duopoly firms under environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) guideline. We show that the ER&D risk level under cooperative ER&D is always higher than under non-cooperative ER&D, resulting in a higher expected...

Purpose: A growing number of commercial open source software, based on free open source software, appears in many segments of software market. The purpose of this study is to investigate how commercial open source software affects proprietary software producer's pricing (market share or profit),...

Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source software on the quality strategies of proprietary software...

Abstract This study investigates the impact of target emissions from polluting firms on the production of green technology and the optimal policy decisions of privatization on the eco-industry under their voluntary commitments. For this, we formulate a vertical structure consisting of a...

This paper considers environmental R&D (ER&D) risk choices by a polluting duopoly under the environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) guideline and compares non-cooperative and cooperative ER&D when the government imposes an emission tax. We show that irrespective of ECSR and emission...