Motivated by dual sales channel operations in cross-border e-commerce, we analyze an e-tailer's strategic waiting decision for channel disruption information in a global supply chain. The e-tailer operates two sales channels: a bonded-warehouse channel with products pre-stocked before channel...

In recent years, emerging markets such as India and Indonesia have encouraged / required multinational firms (MNFs) to produce and sell goods locally. This might change MNFs' previous supply chain structure of "overseas-production-local-sale" (OPLS) to "ocal-production-local-sale" (LPLS). Tax...

Many U.S. IT companies began to realize the important role of tax planning in recent years and started strategically establishing retail subsidiaries in favorable tax jurisdictions. Significant increase of after-tax profits can be achieved by internally trading their own intellectual properties,...

Consider a remanufacturing system consisting of a brand, a new component supplier (Supplier N), and a remanufactured component supplier (Supplier R). The brand priorly purchases remanufactured components and then assembles them into final products, while Supplier R collects the end-of-life...

Humans tend to make time-inconsistent intertemporal choices and exhibit naivete about their self-control in the future, a human tendency identified and confirmed in behavioral economics and marketing literature as “present-biased preferences”. New service operations business models betting...