In recent years, online retailers have not only acted as product resellers, a format commonly referred to as reselling; but also started to serve as online marketplaces for suppliers to directly access their customers and charge a proportion fee for providing this access, a format commonly...

This paper investigates a retailer's incentive of sharing the private demand information with a supplier who may encroach the retail channel by exerting a fixed entry cost. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that a retailer should withhold her private demand observation to keep the...

Recently, manufacturers have not only sold through retailers, but also started to directly access customers via online intermediaries by paying a proportional fee. This paper studies the incentive for the intermediaries' vertical demand information sharing with the manufacturers and retailers...

This paper investigates a supplier's voluntary disclosure strategy when it can encroach on a retailer's operations by selling directly to final consumers. The establishment of a direct sales channel expands market potential, induces the supplier to adopt a more frequent disclosure strategy, and...

While there have been vast discussion on the materialistic benefits of continuous improvement from the Toyota and Honda experiences, the academic literature pays little attention to information sharing. In this paper, we construct a dynamic adverse selection model in which the supplier privately...