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...

The increasing awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) makes the investment in CSR activities a strategy to distinguish firms in a competitive environment. In practice, a greenwashing phenomenon is identified where a firm uses CSR investment as a marketing gimmick and only invests in...

We study the capacity investment strategy of a manufacturer who sells his product on a live-streaming shopping platform. The manufacturer first decides the production capacity, then the platform decides her commission, and finally the manufacturer sets the retail price. The platform has an...

We study a firm's optimal strategy to adjust its capacity using demand information. The capacity adjustment is costly and often subject to managerial hurdles which sometimes make it difficult to adjust capacity multiple times. In order to clearly analyze the impact of demand learning on the...

We study assembly supply chains with multiple contractors. In such settings, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sometimes outsources component production to different contractors, and the final product revenue may depend on the performance of the slowest (or most unlucky) contractor. To...

We study an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) purchasing two inputs for assembly from two suppliers with private cost information. The OEM can contract with the two suppliers either simultaneously or sequentially. We consider both cases in which the OEM has relatively equal bargaining power...