Consumers' environmental awareness and endogenous managerial delegation choice between sales and environmental incentives

L Xu, SH Lee - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This study considers consumers' environmental awareness (CEA) and examines firms'
managerial delegation contracts between sales and environmental performance incentives …

Relative performance as a strategic commitment mechanism

N Miller, A Pazgal - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Can managers' personality traits be of use to profit maximizing firm owners? We investigate
the case where managers have a variety of attitudes toward relative performance that are …

Cournot–Bertrand comparisons under double managerial delegation contracts with sales and environmental incentives

L Xu, SH Lee - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the effect of consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for green products
on double managerial delegation contracts with sales and environmental incentives. We …

Endogenous games and mechanisms: Side payments among players

MO Jackson, S Wilkie - The Review of Economic Studies, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We characterize the outcomes of games when players may make binding offers of strategy
contingent side payments before the game is played. This does not always lead to efficient …

Choosing price or quantity? The role of delegation and network externalities

A Chirco, M Scrimitore - Economics Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
We consider a differentiated duopoly and endogenise the firm choice of the strategy variable
(price or quantity) to play on the product market in the presence of network externalities. We …

Strategic corporate social responsibility activities and corporate governance in imperfectly competitive markets

C Manasakis, E Mitrokostas… - Managerial and Decision …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the incentives of firms' owners to commit voluntarily to corporate social
responsibility (CSR) activities in an oligopolistic market. The socially responsible attributes …

Welfare-reducing price competition under relative performance delegation with convex costs

L Xu, T Matsumura - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Price competition is thought to be more intense than quantity competition in oligopolies. By
introducing strategic delegation contracts, this study challenges this belief. We consider …

A strategic analysis of incorporating CSR into managerial incentive design

J Bian, KW Li, X Guo - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A strategic analysis is conducted to incorporate corporate social responsibility (CSR)
considerations into managerial incentive design in a duopoly where each firm comprises an …

Cournot vs. Bertrand under relative performance delegation: Implications of positive and negative network externalities

R Pal - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper demonstrates that relative-performance based strategic managerial delegation
does not lead to the equivalence of Bertrand and Cournot equilibria in the presence of …

Vertical product differentiation, managerial delegation and social welfare in a vertically-related market

X Wang, LFS Wang - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze the influence of the delegation of downstream firms that produce
different quality of products on the profits, consumer surplus and social welfare in a vertically …