This paper investigates a supplier's voluntary disclosure strategy when it can encroach on a retailer's operations by … is positive and can even create a higher ex ante payoff for the retailer in face of the supplier's encroachment … supplier to adopt a more frequent disclosure strategy, and ultimately leads to a higher level of information transparency in …

hybrid. We consider an e-commerce supply chain consisting of two suppliers and a common online retailer, with the suppliers … or the retailer and one of the suppliers engaging in Bertrand or Cournot competition. Our analysis shows that the … retailer's incentive to share information strongly depends on the selection of selling modes. Under pure reselling or pure …

This paper investigates a retailer's incentive of sharing the private demand information with a supplier who may … showing that the retailer may prefer to voluntarily share the demand information in anticipation of the supplier encroachment … encroach the retail channel by exerting a fixed entry cost. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that a retailer should …

manufacturer, and an online retailer. The online retailer purchases products from the manufacturer and directly sells through the … intermediary, whereas the manufacturer can sell through the online retailer and the intermediary (i.e., reselling), or only through … the retailer and directly through the intermediary (i.e., agency selling). Our analysis shows that under no information …