Problem Definition and Academic/Practical Relevance: Most supply networks are characterized by firms that source from multiple suppliers and suppliers that serve multiple firms, thus resulting in suppliers who differ in their degree centrality, i.e., the number of firms they supply to. In such...

The common wisdom is that a retailer will get hurt when its wholesale supplier encroaches on the retailer's territory by selling directly to the same end market. Motivated by practices in variety of industries that supplier with random supply loss maintain dual channel structure, this study...

Showrooming (webrooming) refers to a consumer inspecting a product at a brick-and-mortar/BM (online) retailer before purchasing it from a competing online (BM) retailer. Despite recent adoptions of price-matching and free-shipping policies, show/webrooming remains prevalent. We model different...