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The Optimal Bribe: Price Versus Quantity Competition in Oligopolies
The Manchester School, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze an entry deterrence model between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, where the incumbent strategically offers bribes to local officials to raise entry barriers. Our focus is a three‐stage Bertrand game under incomplete information in a differentiated goods market.
Vishavdeep Sharma +1 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Platform companies like Uber and Airbnb are depicted as agile policy entrepreneurs who can navigate the boundaries of regulatory frameworks and manipulate regulations to their advantage; however, recent empirical studies suggest that their capacity to influence policy depends on the particular political and institutional context.
Eliska Drapalova, Kai Wegrich
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Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT An increasing number of companies in the hotel industry are embracing the integration of sustainable practices to gain an advantage in a competitive digital market, where online travel agencies are predominant. However, marketing literature remains divided regarding the effectiveness of communicating the green image of a hotel in relation to ...
Matías Orellana‐González +3 more
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Environmental Quality Management, Volume 35, Issue 4, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT Microplastic (MP) pollution represents a growing environmental challenge, especially in tropical and subtropical coastal regions of the Global South, where methodological fragmentation, funding discontinuity, and dependence on external analytical infrastructure limit the production of comparable data and the formulation of evidence‐based ...
Guilherme Malafaia +1 more
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The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 285-299, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 5175-5193, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 5514-5528, May 2026.ABSTRACT Quantitative and perceptual studies have been used to define and model sustainable tourist behaviour in past years, but few studies have undertaken qualitative research of actual behaviour to delve deeper into understanding the different classifications of such behaviour. This research employed a three‐phase design, comprising a pretrip survey,
Rachel Dodds, Mark Robert Holmes
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International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how differences in users' digital utilization ability influence system acceptance and use intention in smart tourism. A structural model integrating the information system success model (ISSM) and the technology acceptance model (TAM) is proposed to analyze user acceptance of tourism information systems.
Jimin Shim, Joonho Moon, Won Seok Lee
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International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of Living Labs in advancing sustainable tourism governance across six European destinations: the Rotterdam Metropolitan Region (the Netherlands), the Scheldeland Region (Belgium), Utsjoki municipality (Finland), Huesca province (Spain), the Split metropolitan area (Croatia), and Vicenza (Italy).
Ante Mandić, Smiljana Pivčević
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The Impact of Antecedents on Airbnb Listing Prices: Evidence from Greece
Studia PeriegeticaThe study investigates varied effects that price antecedents have on Airbnb listings. Using data on 31705 listings from four major Greek regions (Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, and the South Aegean), which appeared on Airbnb in December 2022 and were ...
Georgia Zouni +3 more
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