sharing with the manufacturers and retailers under the reselling and agency selling formats, and examines the impact of … information sharing on selling format selection. We consider an e-commerce supply chain consisting of an online intermediary, a … the retailer and directly through the intermediary (i.e., agency selling). Our analysis shows that under no information …

fee for providing this access, a format commonly referred to as agency selling. This paper studies the incentive for … vertical information sharing in an e-commerce supply chain under different selling formats: Reselling, agency selling, and … retailer's incentive to share information strongly depends on the selection of selling modes. Under pure reselling or pure …

physical channel. This reverse encroachment strategy emerges because selling through the e-tailer leads to a more severe double …

monitoring expertise. We also quantify the performance gaps among different selling schemes under various scenarios …

. Specifically, the manufacturer can sell the product directly to consumers (named direct selling) or via a middleman retailer (named … agent selling). The manufacturer then decides which distribution channel to adopt with an aim to maximize his profit. Under … downward decentralize his distribution channel by adopting agent selling when consumers are extremely fairness-minded. However …

investigating how consumer valuation, product quality, and manufacturers’ competition influence the choice of selling agreement … selling agreement that is not trivial to analyze. We first show that agency selling agreement induces a higher retail price … manufacturer to make low-quality product compared to the agency selling agreement, but such a low-quality product is only …