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Return Strategy and Pricing in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain

Li, Guo - 2020

This study investigates the strategic effect of return policies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which a manufacturer can sell products directly to end customers and indirectly via an independent retailer. The manufacturer decides whether to implement a return policy in either the direct or...

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Analysis of Reverse Channels in a Stochastic Closed-loop Supply Chain

Huang, Zongsheng - 2020

We study a closed-loop supply chain in which used products can be collected by a manufacturer, a retailer, or a third-party for the purpose of recycling. Since the collection process can be noisy, the system dynamic is modeled by a stochastic differential equation. We formulate stochastic...

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Games of Supplier Encroachment Channel Selection and E-tailer's Information Sharing

Tang, Yanli; Sethi, Suresh; Wang, Yulan - 2023

We consider an e-tailer's upstream supplier who wants to encroach into retailing to earn additional revenue. The supplier needs to decide whether or not to enter the retail market by either selling to consumers on an e-tailer's platform by paying commission fees (agency encroachment) or opening...

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Optimal Firm Contributions to Open Source Software

Haruvy, Ernan - 2008

This paper examines open source software development in a competitive environment. The quality of open source software … augments competitors' software quality in future periods subject to compatibility considerations with their existing software …. A differential game model is developed to understand why firms are increasingly involved in open source software …

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Dynamic Optimization of Software Enhancement Effort

Kumar, Subodha; Ji, Yonghua; Yeh, Denny; Sethi, Suresh - 2013

As the competition in the software development business grows fiercer, the features provided in the software become … more and more important. With the growing popularity of open source software and the advent of new software delivery models …, such as software-as-a-service, the traditional software vendors cannot compete on price in the long run. Therefore, they …

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Power Structure and Channel Integration Strategy for Online Retailers

Hu, Yihong - 2020

With the boom of e-commerce, express delivery has been increasingly regarded as a bottleneck and key factor for achieving success. Additionally, whether to include such express delivery service or not is an important yet outstandingly unsolved problem for online retailers. In this regard, this...

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Encroachment Channel Selection When Retailer Has Private Information : Role of Quantity Leadership

Tang, Yanli - 2020

We begin with a supplier (she) who wholesales to a retailer (he), and is considering to encroach into the retail market by opening an independent online/offline store to sell directly to consumers (a direct channel encroachment) or by selling directly to consumers through the online platform of...

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Pricing, Production, and Channel Coordination with Stochastic Learning

Li, Tao - 2020

We study a two-period supply chain in which a manufacturer produces a product, learns to reduce cost, and sells it through a retailer with a price-dependent demand. The manufacturer's second-period production cost declines linearly in the first-period production with a random learning rate. The...

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Online Market Entry and Channel Sharing Strategy With Direct Selling Dis-economies in the Sharing Economy Era

Li, Guo - 2020

Channel sharing is an important marketing strategy for giant retailers who sell their own store brands and resell national brands for cooperative manufacturers simultaneously. To expand their market and increase profitability, national brand manufacturers may consider entering the online market...

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A Survey of Stackelberg Differential Game Models in Supply and Marketing Channels : An Erratum

He, Xiuli - 2008

The presentation of Table 2 in the original version of this article (quot;A Survey of Stackelberg Differential Game Models in Supply and Marketing Channelsquot;, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp., 385-413, 2007) contained a few typos. The corrected Table 2...

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