The Chair’s research program focuses on theoretical and algorithmic developments of game theory and its applications to management issues.

The theoretical and algorithmic component aims to:

• Design strategies that promote cooperation among agents which, in principle, have different or even conflicting objectives;
• Develop mechanisms to ensure dynamic coherence and other forms of durability of cooperative solutions;
• Extend these strategies and mechanisms to a stochastic framework;
• Create algorithms to compute non-cooperative game equilibrium in a dynamic context.

Applications focus on various management issues, mainly in marketing, energy and the environment, such as:

• Conflicts and cooperation in marketing distribution networks;
• Designing marketing strategies in oligopolistic markets;
• Sharing of environmental costs;
• Coordinating environmental strategies in an international context;
• Coordination in supply chains and the marketing-production interface;
• Electronic commerce, including its implications on relationships in traditional distribution channels.

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