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Adoption of network technologies in oligopolies

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Technology alliances affect firms' market profitability and competitivity. As another firm joins the alliance to which a chosen technology firm belongs, the change in profit for the chosen firm will be affected by the identity of the incoming firm and the increasing size of the alliance. However, the effect is not always positive as firms within the alliance exhibit different competitive stance. This is clearly illustrated in a two-stage game Nash equilibria using backward induction.

Economics, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Models, Analysis, Economic aspects, Social networks, Game theory, Oligopolies

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Price and quantity experimentation: A synthesis

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A new study examines learning and experimentation in a simple unified model of product differentiation when the goods are produced either by a monopoly or a duopoly. The cases of price-setting and quantity-setting firms are included.

Product differentiation, Industrial organization

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Oligopolistic competition, IT use for product differentiation and the productivity paradox

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Research is presented concerning the use of empirical studies to determine the effect which the large investment made by business enterprises in information technology in the 1980s and 1990s has had on productivity.

Information Systems & Theory, Equipment Purchasing, Purchasing, Investments, Information technology, Influence, Business enterprises, Capital investments, Productivity accounting

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