Purpose: The authors investigate the manufacturer's choice of discount schemes in a supply chain with competing retailers. Design/methodology/approach: Using a game-theoretic model, the authors build two discount frameworks and compare and analyze the effects of different discount schemes on the...

Purpose - The advanced technology enables retailers to develop customer profile analysis (CPA) to implement personalized pricing. However, considering the efficiency of developing CPA, the benefit to different retailers of implementing more precise personalized pricing remains unclear. Thus,...

We consider a service market with two firms that provide regular and premium services respectively. Customers are delay sensitive and heterogeneous on evaluating the service level. We show that the service differentiation, together with customer heterogeneity, results in market segmentation...

Two-invoice mechanism (TIM) was introduced by the Chinese government with the purpose of reducing pharmaceutical prices. This paper studies the impact of the TIM on a pharmaceutical supply chain consisting of a manufacturer, buyer, and agent (in the absence of a TIM) or a third-party (in the...

A series of n-type polycrystalline SnSe 0.95 - x mol% NdCl 3 samples were synthesized using the melting method combined with spark plasma sintering (SPS). Doping of NdCl 3 significantly enhances the electrical conductivity after thermal excitation and inhabits the deterioration of Seebeck...

In order to study the entrepreneurship situation of Jiangxi return migrant workers after the financial crisis, we have conducted a survey on 107 entrepreneurial return migrant workers in 6 counties of Jiangxi Province. The results show that the return of migrant workers is mainly attributed to...

Over the last decade the British Labour Government has presided over unprecedented increases in levels of spending on the National Health Service (NHS). But Opposition parties now claim that this record growth in NHS expenditure has been misspent, and some commentators are already predicting...