TY - GEN AB - Product-harm crises are the nightmare of any firm due to their disastrous effects on sales and image. These crises lead to loss of consumer trust, severe damage to brand reputation, extensive negative media coverage, legal and financial repercussions, decline in market share, negative impact on investor confidence, and increased regulatory scrutiny. Overall, product-harm crises pose significant challenges to companies, emphasizing the critical importance of effective risk management and crisis preparedness. The present paper proposes a new model to compute the optimal investment in quality and advertising in order to reduce the probability of occurrence of a possible product-harm crisis and mitigate its effects. This method uses stochastic control theory and can be used for both tangible products and services. An extension of this method is also proposed in order to take endogenously competition. This extension uses a game theoretical approach AD - Haute école de gestion de Genève, HES-SO Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale AU - Moresino, Francesco DA - 2024-04 DO - 10.4236/ojbm.2024.123074 DO - DOI EP - pp. 1390-1402 ID - 14212 JF - Open journal of business and management KW - Economie/gestion KW - optimal investment KW - product-harm crisis KW - stochastic optimal control KW - game theory KW - advertising KW - quality L1 - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14212/files/Moresino_2024_Optimal_investment_in_advertising_and_quality_to_mitigate_a_possible_product-harm_crisis.pdf L2 - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14212/files/Moresino_2024_Optimal_investment_in_advertising_and_quality_to_mitigate_a_possible_product-harm_crisis.pdf L4 - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14212/files/Moresino_2024_Optimal_investment_in_advertising_and_quality_to_mitigate_a_possible_product-harm_crisis.pdf LA - eng LK - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14212/files/Moresino_2024_Optimal_investment_in_advertising_and_quality_to_mitigate_a_possible_product-harm_crisis.pdf N2 - Product-harm crises are the nightmare of any firm due to their disastrous effects on sales and image. These crises lead to loss of consumer trust, severe damage to brand reputation, extensive negative media coverage, legal and financial repercussions, decline in market share, negative impact on investor confidence, and increased regulatory scrutiny. Overall, product-harm crises pose significant challenges to companies, emphasizing the critical importance of effective risk management and crisis preparedness. The present paper proposes a new model to compute the optimal investment in quality and advertising in order to reduce the probability of occurrence of a possible product-harm crisis and mitigate its effects. This method uses stochastic control theory and can be used for both tangible products and services. An extension of this method is also proposed in order to take endogenously competition. This extension uses a game theoretical approach PY - 2024-04 SN - 2329-3284 SP - pp. 1390-1402 T1 - Optimal investment in advertising and quality to mitigate a possible product-harm crisis TI - Optimal investment in advertising and quality to mitigate a possible product-harm crisis UR - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14212/files/Moresino_2024_Optimal_investment_in_advertising_and_quality_to_mitigate_a_possible_product-harm_crisis.pdf VL - Vol. 12 Y1 - 2024-04 ER -