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Lost Marie Curies : Parental Impact on the Probability of Becoming an Inventor

Hoisl, Karin; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Mariani, Myriam - 2022

This research investigates the role of parents in explaining the surprisingly low presence of women among inventors despite their increase among graduates from STEM subjects. With Danish registry data on the population born between 1966 and 1985 and an experimental setting crafted on...

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The Strategic Perils of Low Cost Outsourcing

Feng, Qi; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 6, pp. 1196-1210

presence of <i>competition</i> and <i>negotiations</i>. In other words, does low cost outsourcing always lead to a win … endogeneity of disagreement payoffs in our model highlights the importance of modeling firm negotiations under competition …

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Stable Farsighted Coalitions in Competitive Markets

Nagarajan, Mahesh; Greys Soši\'{c} - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 1, pp. 29-45

), the degree of competition, the effect of cost parameters, and the variability of the demand process on the prices …

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Defensive Marketing Strategies: An Equilibrium Analysis Based on Decoupled Response Function Models

Kumar, K. Ravi; Sudharshan, D. - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 7, pp. 805-815

The entry of a new product (attacker) into a competitive market is likely to provoke responses from some or all of the existing products (defenders). This paper investigates the development of optimal defensive strategies based on an understanding of the possible reactions of all the defenders...

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How Do Value Creation and Competition Determine Whether a Firm Appropriates Value?

MacDonald, Glenn; Ryall, Michael D. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 10, pp. 1319-1333

How does competition among economic actors determine the value that each is able to appropriate? We provide a formal … familiar notion that uniqueness, inimitability, and competition imply value appropriation, and (ii) determine the value …

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Supply Chain Choice on the Internet

Netessine, Serguei; Rudi, Nils - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 6, pp. 844-864

Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' request. Under the drop-shipping arrangement, the supply chain benefits from risk pooling because the inventory for multiple...

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Preferences, Identity, and Competition: Predicting Tie Strength from Demographic Data

Reagans, Ray - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 9, pp. 1374-1383

identification and competition. Identification increases the tendency for strong ties to develop among similar people, while … competition reduces that tendency. I argue that tie strength is a function of all three mechanisms: a baseline level of … interpersonal attraction, a positive identification effect, and a negative competition adjustment. Identification and competition …

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Can Losing Lead to Winning?

Berger, Jonah; Pope, Devin - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 5, pp. 817-827

Individuals, groups, and teams who are behind their opponents in competition tend to be more likely to lose. In …

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Advance Booking Discount Programs Under Retail Competition

McCardle, Kevin; Rajaram, Kumar; Tang, Christopher S. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 5, pp. 701-708

We model a situation in which two retailers consider launching an "Advance Booking Discount" (ABD) program. In this program, customers are enticed to precommit their orders at a discount price prior to the regular selling season. However, these precommitted orders are filled during the selling...

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Entry and Learning

Devinney, Timothy M. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 6, pp. 706-724

This paper shows the difficulties associated with discerning the impact of learning and pressures of competitive entry on the price and cost of production in commodity markets. It shows that the patterns of price and cost movements over time will be dramatically affected by the entry of new...

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