We characterize the interplay between firms' decision in terms of product standardization and the nature of their ensuing market behaviour. We prove the existence of a nonmonotone relationship between firms' decision at the product stage and their intertemporal preferences.
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Critical discount factor, Product innovation, RJVs
| Language(s): | English |
| Authors | Lambertini, Luca (Dept of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy), Poddar, Sougata (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), Sasaki, Dan (Economics Dept, University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science S.A. |
| Keywords: | Critical discount factor, Product innovation, RJVs |
| Last update: | 1998 |