With the rise of online media platforms, intensified competition has forced platforms to
develop their content and even to cooperate with rival platforms. It is worth exploring the …

This paper studies how technology suppliers can optimally design licensing contracts when
there is incomplete information on the licensee's demand potential for the product in a high …

In practice, consumption quality refers to “production quality+ category image”, where the
former is determined by a contract manufacturer (CM) and the latter is promoted by an …

We consider a durable-good producer who optimizes its sales decisions for two successive
product generations with refurbishing and recycling potential. Customer arrivals follow a …

This study examines the patterns of technological cooperation or technological competition
between an incumbent firm and an entrant firm in Information and Communications …

When planning for online promotion festivals, retailers must consider both pricing and timing
decisions to determine an appropriate promotion strategy. In this article, we first consider …

We consider a durable-good producer who aims to jointly optimize its sales decisions for two
successive product generations that are remanufacturable. The customer arrivals are …

The rapid development of blockchain technology enables the application of cryptocurrency
payment in real business practice. However, no research has examined the net effect of …

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of foundation models, pre-trained on broad
data and adaptable to myriad downstream tasks. This paper presents an economic theory of …

This paper builds a dynamic multi-stage technology supply chain model including a
technology provider and two competitive retailers, explores the timing strategies in …