Understanding Firms' Relocation and Expansion Decisions Using Self-Reported Factor Importance Rating
Using individual business surveys, this study examines the most important factors for firms' decisions to relocate or expand in the past as well as their intention to relocate or expand in the future. Results indicate that factors related to firms' internal characteristics, features of location sites, and the general economic environment may affect firms' past and future decisions. These factors are found to be generally consistent in their impact upon the past and future decisions with several noticeable differences. The hypothesis of footloose firms is supported by this study.
The impact of revenue sharing contract in the coordination of a two-stage brand franchise supply chain system is studied.The result shows the above contract can eliminate the double marginal effect and risk aversion effect so as to making the supply chain coordinated.Furthermore,the parameters of two contracts are designed and the impacts of retailer's risk aversion preference in supply chain decision are discussed.