Introduction -- Embedding the topic into the scientific environment based on a comprehensive literature review -- Methodical procedure according to a problem-centered approach -- Development of a supply chain finance model in consideration of cooperative game theory -- Demonstration and...

In the last two decades or so, a significant emphasis of the research literature in operations management has been on the strategic interaction of firms in a supply chain. Individual firms in supply chains make decisions on multiple levers such as capacity, inventory and price, to name a few,...

Today's common business practice of extracting non-renewable raw materials from the earth, processing them, turning them into products, selling the products to customers, and then having the customers dispose of the products in a landfill or through incineration is not sustainable. Eventually,...