scholarly journals Quality Assurance Competition Strategy under B2C Platform

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Yunmiao Gui ◽  
Bengang Gong
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Platform Competition ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Control Rights ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Better Than

This paper examines the platform competition strategy in offering quality assurance policy based on two-sided B2C markets with buyers and sellers who trade through the B2C platform. We model this as a strategy decision whether control rights of quality assurance level are better held by the seller or by the platform. Whether the seller or the platform that provides quality assurance policy is preferred depends on their influence on network effects. We show that the seller and the platform have no strong intention to improve the quality assurance level in the monopoly markets. When all buyers multihome and all sellers single-home, sellers who hold the control rights of quality assurance are better than platforms. However, platforms that hold quality assurance drive more profits than sellers in the B2C markets where all buyers and all sellers multihome. Our findings connect platform competitive strategies to market and microfoundation of quality, which applies directly to managerial decisions in the B2C two-sided platform.

scholarly journals Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 014920632096979
Author(s):  
Joost Rietveld ◽  
Melissa A. Schilling
Keyword(s):  
Network Effects ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Influence Strategies ◽  
Platform Competition ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Winner Takes All ◽  
Complementary Goods

Over the past three decades, platform competition—the competition between firms that facilitate transactions and govern interactions between two or more distinct user groups who are connected via an indirect network—has attracted significant interest from the fields of management and organizations, information systems, economics, and marketing. Despite common interests in research questions, methodologies, and empirical contexts by scholars from across these fields, the literature has developed mostly in isolated fashion. This article offers a systematic and interdisciplinary review of the literature on platform competition by analyzing a sample of 333 articles published between 1985 and 2019. The review contributes by (a) documenting how the literature on platform competition has evolved; (b) outlining four themes of shared scholarly interest, including how network effects generate “winner-takes-all” dynamics that influence strategies, such as pricing and quality; how network externalities and platform strategy interact with corporate-level decisions, such as vertical integration or diversification into complementary goods; how heterogeneity in the platform and its users influences platform dynamics; and how the platform “hub” orchestrates value creation and capture in the overall ecosystem; and (c) highlighting several areas for future research. The review aims to facilitate a broader understanding of the platform competition research that helps to advance our knowledge of how platforms compete to create and capture value.

scholarly journals Is a quasi-3D dosimeter better than a 2D dosimeter for Tomotherapy delivery quality assurance?

2015 ◽  
Vol 573 ◽  
pp. 012077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitang Xing ◽  
Shrikant Deshpande ◽  
Sankar Arumugam ◽  
Armia George ◽  
Lois Holloway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Better Than

scholarly journals How Do Internal Capital Markets Work? Evidence from the Great Recession*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Buchuk ◽  
Borja Larrain ◽  
Mounu Prem ◽  
Francisco Urzúa Infante
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Internal Capital Markets ◽  
Control Rights ◽  
High Q ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Formal Control ◽  
Internal Capital ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Unique Dataset

Abstract We study the inner workings of internal capital markets during the 2008–09 recession using a unique dataset of loans between business group firms in an emerging market. Intragroup loans increase quickly during the recession. Firms that are more central in the ownership network simultaneously increase lending and borrowing. Acting like simple intermediaries, central firms do not increase net lending. Our results imply that formal control rights are essential for intermediation in internal capital markets, particularly during distress. In line with previous results on winner-picking, receivers of intragroup loans are high-Q, financially constrained firms, which also perform significantly better than providers during the recession.

Study of bilateral trading platform competition in consideration of suppliers’ spatial network

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (05) ◽  
pp. 1840003
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Xiaobo Tao ◽  
Yongbo Sun
Keyword(s):  
Network Structure ◽  
Network Effect ◽  
Spatial Network ◽  
Platform Competition ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Adoption Decision ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
Bilateral Trading ◽  
Competition Result ◽  
First Mover

The bilateral trading platform is an intermediary system which serves both consumers and suppliers. To make this happen, platforms must attract users on board from both sides and make them trade with each other. Spatial distribution of suppliers has the significant impact on consumers platform adoption decision, but how does the supplier’s network affect the platform competition has rarely been studied. In this paper, the supplier’s spatial network is added to bilateral trading platform network effect model, and influences of the supplier’s network structure on the platform competition are discussed. Simulation results show that, compared with the central network, the decentralized network is more conducive to the platform competition. When suppliers on two competitive platforms follow the same network structure, the reinforcement effect of the first-mover advantage on platforms will vanish. This result is robust in different spatial network patterns. Conversely, when one of the platforms has a superior network structure of suppliers, its first-mover advantage will get strengthened, and it will achieve a better competition result; otherwise, its first-mover advantage will get weakened. These results provide an insight into the platform competition mechanism and will help platforms to make corresponding competitive strategies.

Quality Assurance in Disaster Planning: A Waste of Time?

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
B. Prendal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Disaster Planning ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Better Than

In defining our terms we must ask ourselves—how many aircraft accidents occur and where do the majority of them happen?Figure 1 shows the total number of losses to be 318 over a 25 year period, the average being around 12 per year. While 1984 was a better than average year when only 7 losses occurred.

Competitive strategy selection in retail E-Commerce using IF AHP & TOPSIS methodology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mahmut Mahir Kurt ◽  
Osman Yazıcıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Strategy Selection ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
Fuzzy Environment ◽  
The Right

Retail e-commerce has been growing over the years by attracting entrepreneurs’ attention. Increasing interest in retail e-commerce has affected competition and made it necessary to choose the right competition strategy. This study aims at selecting the right competition strategy to be successful in retail e-commerce under vague and imprecise conditions. AHP and TOPSIS methods are used under intuitionistic fuzzy environment, which allows decision-makers to reflect their hesitation in their judgements. After a literature review on retail, e-commerce, and competition strategy, the main criteria and sub-criteria of multicriteria retail e-commerce alternative selection are presented. Cost leadership, differentiation, and focusing strategies are evaluated as competitive strategies, based on the opinions of experts collected through a questionnaire. The results of the study show that the strategies are ranked as differentiation, focus, and cost leadership strategies, respectively.

scholarly journals Diversification of services as a competition strategy in the social sphere

2020 ◽  
Vol - (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
O.E. Vinogradova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social

The article examines the peculiarities of social services in the context of integration into the system of economic relations, as well as the competitiveness of social organizations. The list of the main competitive strategies of social services and the peculiarities of the process of diversification of services and services in the field of social security is substantiated. The practice of applying diversification of services in social organizations of the Moscow region is analyzed.

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