The on-demand delivery platforms for food and grocery have grown rapidly. One claimed benefit of those platforms is the potential to optimize courier routing by sharing couriers among many vendors, such as restaurants or grocery stores. However, it is puzzling to observe that the largest...

Motivated by the emerging sharing economy, we study an on-demand matching platform that crowdsources a service from independent suppliers and sells it to customers. The platform offers a wage to the supply side and charges a price to the demand side. We consider a set of market conditions, under...

Using a simple textual measure of performance and innovation related keywords (PAI) in the 10-K reports, we document a significantly positive relation between PAI and credit ratings. Our results hold utilizing instrumental variable analysis, change analysis, firm fixed effects and propensity...

Does the social comparison still intensify the competition among sellers in volatile markets? In this paper, we study the price competition in markets with volatile sizes and, importantly, with sellers that socially compare their profits with each other ex post for any realization of market...

In recent years, China has launched ambitious measures to tackle water pollution. As political commitment and public investment soared, Chinese environmental scientists and practitioners have engaged in a substantial debate on the reorganization of the country's water management system. Domestic...

Problem definition: We consider an intermediary’s problem of dynamically matching demand and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. Specifically, there are two disjoint sets of demand and supply types, and a reward for each possible matching of a demand type and a supply...

The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their well-being. Cost reduction is the prime driver for change and has been implemented using delayering, redundancy, downsizing and off-shoring often supported by culture change...

Redundancy, delayering, downsizing, and various other forms of organizational change have become increasingly prevalent. This article focuses on the impact of different forms of organizational change on managers' perceptions of the organizations they work within and the comparison between...

The issues of violence and harassment in the workplace have aroused growing interest across Europe in recent years, yet there is a great disparity in the different EU Member States between awareness and recognition of the problem. This comparative analysis reveals that, while the full extent of...