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作者：Corbett, CJ; Montes-Sancho, MJ; Kirsch, DA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：The ISO 9000 series of quality management systems standards, introduced in 1986, has been adopted at over 560,000 locations worldwide. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firms can achieve internal benefits such as quality or productivity improvements or that certification can help firms maintain or increase their market share, or both. Others argue that the standard is too generic to cause performance improvement but can be seen as a signal of good management. In this paper, we track financial p...
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作者：Engelbrecht-Wiggans, R; Kahn, CM
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Low-revenue equilibria allow participants in an auction to obtain goods at prices lower than would prevail in a competitive market. These outcomes are generated as perfect equilibria of ascending-bid, multiunit auctions. We show that these equilibria are possible under mild conditions-conditions that are likely to prevail in many situations where auction formats have recently been adopted We argue that these equilibria could explain the low revenues of some recent auctions, and discuss potenti...
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作者：Terwiesch, C; Ren, ZJ; Ho, TH; Cohen, MA
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Boston University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study the demand forecast-sharing process between a buyer of customized production equipment and a set of equipment suppliers. Based on a large data collection we undertook in the semiconductor equipment supply chain, we empirically investigate the relationship between the buyer's forecasting behavior and the supplier's delivery performance. The buyer's forecasting behavior is characterized by the frequency and magnitude of forecast revisions it requests (forecast volatility) as well as by ...
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作者：Cabral, LMB; Villas-Boas, M
作者单位：New York University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study oligopoly price competition between multiproduct firms-firms whose products interact in the profit function. Specifically, we focus on the impact of intrafirm product interactions on the level of equilibrium profits. This impact may be decomposed in two different ways: (a) a direct effect (keeping the competitors' actions fixed) plus a strategic effect (i.e., through the competitors' actions); or, alternatively, (b) a competitive advantage effect (change in firm i only) plus an imitat...
