In today’s highly competitive business environment, a growing number of platforms are opening their technologies. This leads us to wonder whether sharing one’s proprietary technology is altruism or a shrewd business move. In this paper, we study the incentive of why firms share their...

How to deal with information asymmetry is an important issue under various scenarios in operations management. In supply chain competition, asymmetric information usually exists either between chains horizontally or within chains vertically, or both. This paper studies the incentives for...