This paper brings to light the powerful connection between buyer and supplier relationships in terms of information … sharing, information quality, and supply chain performance. We show supply chain partners coordinate their activities by … offering high-quality information to enable interactions between buyers and providers. We show information sharing acts as a …

This paper studies an information design problem of a retailer in a two-tier supply chain that procures a single type … disclose information about her signal to persuade the supplier to increase production levels. For this setup, we characterize … the optimal information disclosure policy of the retailer, and shed light on settings where the retailer strictly benefits …