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In this paper we analyze whether the two tasks of building and operating infrastructures used for the provision of public services should be bundled or not, by studying the investment incentives which are the core of the bundling issue. We present a basic model in a multitask environment considering both productive efforts and unproductive efforts in quality improvement and cost reduction. We then...
The frequency of radical technological innovation is increasing. When incumbent firms experience technological disadvantage during the period of technological change, the extent to which that disadvantage translates into a commercial disadvantage may depend on the breadth of radical technologypsilas disruption. If new technology only destruct incumbent firmspsila technical capabilities but not the...
Franchising has been proved to be a successful commercial pattern in practice, but research on this form of network organization is still behind of practice. This paper first summarizes existing literature on franchising and points out that these theories are based on GHM model. The distribution of the power in the GHM model is based on physical assets. The critical resources in franchising are intangible...
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