Notice of RetractionResearch on the opportunism behavior in modular production network

Notice of Retraction

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In modular production networks, the members always attempt to acquire knowledge and capacity from their partners. Meanwhile, they try to prevent their partners do like this. That is, opportunism is unavoidable in modular production network. The most obvious opportunism behavior in modular production network is associated with asset specialty. Among them, Hold-up problem is the most typical case. According to the differences between when opportunism behavior occurs and when the contract is made, there are two categories, intermediate opportunism behavior and ex-post opportunism behavior. This paper conducts a deeply analysis on the generation mechanism, market failure resulted from it and the impact of hold-up. On the basis of the above analysis, the paper puts forward corresponding countermeasures.