Sustainability is significantly important for fashion business due to consumers’ increasing awareness of environment. When a fashion company aims to promote sustainability, the main linkage is to develop a sustainable supply chain. This paper contributes to current knowledge of sustainable...

Based on the approach of flow distances, the international trade flow system is studied from the perspective of multi-layer flow network. A model of multi-layer flow network is proposed for modelling and analyzing multiple types of flows in flow systems. Then, flow distances are introduced, and...

Original polypropylene (PP) foams with radially gradient porous structures and selective filtration were developed through the supercritical CO 2 assisted extrusion foaming couple with the stretching auxiliary. Firstly, the relationship among the physical characteristics, processing technology...

Designing appropriate import tariff rates is crucial for global trade. In this paper, we propose game-theoretic models to investigate how tariff policies affect the competition of multinational firms (MNFs) in a global trading environment. The MNFs sell substitutable products and compete in two...

l outsourcing with a return policy is quite commonly adopted in the fashion supply chain. Under the return policy, the supplier as a brand owner may focus on production, and then outsource retailing to the retailer. In the meanwhile, the retailer may receive some support money from the supplier...

The classical newsvendor problem seeks to minimize the expected inventory cost or maximize the expected profit. But optimizing an expected value alone does not fully capture the stochastic nature of the newsvendor problem. Inspired by the higher-moment analyses explored in finance literature, we...

We study a coordination contract for a supplier-retailer channel producing and selling a fashionable product exhibiting a stochastic price-dependent demand. The product's selling season is short, and the supply chain faces great demand uncertainty. We consider a scenario where the supplier...

The quick response (QR) system that can cope with demand volatility by shortening lead time has been well studied in the literature. Much of the existing literature assumes implicitly or explicitly that the manufacturers under QR can always meet the demand because the production capacity is...

The COVID-19 pandemic creates an unseen challenge to the world’s business operations. In order to survive, companies have taken all kinds of measures. However, for SMEs, owing to relatively limited resources, surviving COVID-19 requires innovative measures. In this paper, we examine two...