A highly available job execution service in computational service market

The US pay television service market had been dominated by cable operators until the nationwide entry of satellite operators in the early 1990s. The latter have been consistently growing their footprints since. This study documents the role of television advertising to explain the success. Using data on US households’ subscription choices and operators’ advertising decisions, the authors document both demand- and supply-side conditions conducive to the growth of the satellite operators. First, the authors find consumers in this market were sensitive to advertising, and especially so to that of the satellite operators (ad-elasticities of about .05-.06 for satellite operators vs. .02 for cable operators). The authors employ a border strategy to demonstrate advertising-elastic demand and discuss its robustness to potential threats to identification. Second, the authors provide suggestive evidence that a form of asymmetric cost efficiencies in television advertising benefited the entrants more than the incumbents. Specifically, the unit costs of local advertising tend to be higher than of national advertising, which likely allowed the satellite operators to better leverage their national presence with (cheaper) national advertising. Overall, this study highlights the interaction between advertising efficiencies and the scale of entry in explaining the competition between market incumbents and entrants.

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“Going Out” and Going In-House: Chinese Multinationals’ Internal Legal Capacity in the United States

Law & Social Inquiry ◽

10.1017/lsi.2020.46 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-31

Author(s):

Ji Li

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Emerging Market ◽

Legal Profession ◽

The United States ◽

State Ownership ◽

Legal Service ◽

Legal Capacity ◽

Service Market ◽

Business Executives ◽

Policy Debates

The “in-house counsel movement” of the past few decades, with its far-reaching implications for the legal profession, the legal service market, and corporate governance, has attracted a great deal of academic attention. Few scholars, however, have examined the global expansion of emerging market companies and their in-house legal capacity. To narrow the gap, this article investigates the in-house legal capacity of Chinese firms in the United States. In doing so, it focuses on two important yet underexplored questions: (1) whether and how institutions in China influence the capacity building; and (2) whether the Chinese investors’ ownership structure makes a difference in that regard. By analyzing a unique set of survey data and 122 interviews with lawyers, in-house counsel, and business executives, this article uncovers evidence of both multi-institutional influence and state-ownership effects. The findings contribute to theoretical and policy debates about the legal profession, the legal service market, and the ramifications of expanding Chinese multinational companies.

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Optimal Energy Storage Allocation Strategy by Coordinating Electric Vehicles Participating in Auxiliary service Market

IEEE Access ◽

10.1109/access.2021.3093948 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Dunnan Liu ◽

Lingxiang Wang ◽

Mingguang Liu ◽

Heping Jia ◽

Hua Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Electric Vehicles ◽

Allocation Strategy ◽

Storage Allocation ◽

Service Market ◽

Optimal Energy

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To port or not to port? Availability of exclusivity in the digital service market

Decision Support Systems ◽

10.1016/j.dss.2021.113598 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 113598

Author(s):

Yu-chen Yang ◽

Hao Ying ◽

Yong Jin ◽

Xin Xu

Keyword(s):

Service Market ◽

Digital Service

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In Between Market and Charity: Child Domestic Work and Changing Labor Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul

International Labor and Working-Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547919000279 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 97 ◽

pp. 81-108

Author(s):

Yahya Araz ◽

İrfan Kokdaş

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Foster Care ◽

Child Labor ◽

Labor Relations ◽

Domestic Work ◽

Domestic Service ◽

Wage Labor ◽

Service Market ◽

Economic Interests ◽

The Status

AbstractThis article focuses on children taken by Istanbulite families for upbringing and employment in the Ottoman capital during the 1800–1900 period. It suggests that domestic child labor which was shaped by the concept of ‘charity’ and economic interests during the first half of the nineteenth century progressively turned into wage labor during the second half of the century. The study claims that the nineteenth century witnessed a transformation of labor relations in the domestic service market, implying the transition from reciprocal to commodified labor. The labor of children employed in domestic services underwent a monetization process throughout the nineteenth century. Parallel to this monetization, the status of children under foster care or in domestic service came to be determined by standardized legal contracts.

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