Netessine, Serguei; Rudi, Nils - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 6, pp. 844-864
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory …'s. Another more traditional channel alternative on the Internet is one in which retailers stock and own the inventory. These two … supply chain structures, which predominate on the Internet, result in different inventory risk allocation, stocking decisions …