Meng, Qiang; Huang, Yikai; Cheu, Ruey Long - In: European Journal of Operational Research 196 (2009) 2, pp. 487-499
This paper addresses a novel competitive facility location problem about a firm that intends to enter an existing decentralized supply chain comprised of three tiers of players with competition: manufacturers, retailers and consumers. It first proposes a variational inequality for the supply...