spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage. …This paper examines empirically the role of market structure for the influence of spill-over effects on R … competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search …

penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the … significant positive spillover effects of intra-industry trade that corresponds to international out-sourcing. …

Zulieferbeziehungen. Demgegenüber gilt das Lieferantenmanagement von Toyota als vorbildlich. Darauf kommt es an, denn Outsourcing und …

players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …

as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play …

or market structure. We address the question how competition among suppliers of finance interacts with trust and … trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. In order to disentangle pure effects of competition and effects of competition … show that competition has no significant effects on trust and trustworthiness of individuals in a strangers’ framework …