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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source

A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

Brokering Localization: Country‐Based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes Country‐Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) to identify types of brokerage models and their effects on localization. CBPFs are intermediaries in the aid chain connecting donors to implementers such as the United Nations, international non‐governmental organizations (INGOs) and national NGOs (NNGOs). This paper analyzes four of the
Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre
wiley   +1 more source

Competition analysis of automobiles and light commercial segment between 1990 and 2014

open access: yesSocioeconomic Analytics
This paper reviews the concept of market structure in oligopoly and concentration indicators CR(4) and HH, and verifies the changes in the concentration and competition of the automotive and light commercial market between 1990 and 2014. In 1990, the CR(
Daniel Santana Medeiros
doaj   +1 more source

Nonlinear Phenomena in Cournot Duopoly Model

open access: yesSystems, 2018
The economic world is very dynamic, and most phenomena appearing in this world are mutually interconnected. These connections may result in the emergence of nonlinear relationships among economic agents. Research discussions about different markets’
Pavel Pražák, Jaroslav Kovárník
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Structural features of life insurance markets in Russia and the West

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Economics, 2020
The relevance of this research is due to the need to develop the financial sector of the domestic economy, which has become obvious in the context of the global economic crisis.
Alexey S. Dmitriev
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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Canada’s Entry for LNG Exports in the Asia-Pacific Market

open access: yesCommodities, 2023
The import demand for energy resources, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), has been steadily increasing in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia, the Middle East (Qatar), the Russian Federation, and the U.S.
Subhadip Ghosh, Shahidul Islam
doaj   +1 more source

Bilateral oligopoly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In many intermediate goods markets buyers and sellers both have market power. Contracts are usually long-term and negotiated bilaterally, codifying many elements in addition to price. We model such bilateral oligopolies as a set of simultaneous Rubinstein-Ståhl bargainings over contracts specifying price and quantity, between pairs of buyers and ...
Björnerstedt, Jonas, Stennek, Johan
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Considering Intermediaries as Relational Localizers: A Case Study of Localization in the Thai–Southeast Myanmar Border Humanitarian Response

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two conceptualizations of pathways to moderating power asymmetries in humanitarian practice have emerged in localization discourse—one emphasizing procedural reforms and the other highlighting relational transformation. Dominant Global North‐mediated localization frameworks emphasize procedural approaches with a focus on shifting to a direct ...
Meghan Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

The changing agribusiness climate: Corporate concentration, agricultural inputs, innovation, and climate change

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2015
For the world’s leading agribusinesses, climate change represents both a threat and an opportunity. The threat, of course, is the uncertainty of crop growing conditions and that supply chains won’t be able to adjust and deliver inputs of seeds ...
Pat Mooney, ETC Group
doaj   +1 more source

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