Versioning literature recommends that a software firm should always sell only one version of a product with the highest quality unless other factors such as piracy, network externality, or concave cost of producing quality are present. However, software firms universally adopt versioning...

A third-party-online-promotion marketplace allows merchants to reach out to consumers who are uninformed about merchants' offering, and charges commission from them. We consider a market that has two types of merchants who are heterogeneous in the proportion of consumers who are informed about...

Motivated by the advantage of just-in-time philosophy, zero-inventory is common in many industries, especially the ones that need fast response with a short lifespan. Accordingly, this paper focuses on coordinated production scheduling and distribution operation problems considering DeJong’s...