作者：Skowronski, Keith; Benton, W. C., Jr.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Manufacturers are often placing their intellectual property (IP) at risk by outsourcing to suppliers in countries with weak IP rights. Thus, understanding how to safeguard their IP from poaching, which is a supplier's unauthorized use of a buyer's proprietary information, is of critical practical importance for manufacturers that outsource to suppliers in countries with weak IP rights. To investigate this phenomenon, we use dyadic data from globally dispersed manufacturer-supplier relationship...
作者：Tian, Lin; Jiang, Baojun
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：In recent years, mobile communication technologies and online sharing platforms have made collaborative consumption among consumers a major trend in the economy. Consumers buy many products but end up not fully utilizing them. A product owner's self-use values can differ over time, and in a period of low self-use value, the owner may rent out her product in a product-sharing market. This study develops an analytical framework to study how consumer-to-consumer product sharing affects the distri...
