A reverse supply chain, as a post-consumption activity, aims at extracting value from products at end of their life cycle (Mafakher and Nasiri, Journal of Cleaner Production 59:185–196, 2013). As well, company’s awareness is attracting increasing attention toward sustainable business...

This paper studies contract design between a retailer and two or more competing manufacturers who supply substitutable products to the retailer for sales in a consumer market. We consider a setting in which the same contracts are used in each period of a planning horizon. We first show that it...

When is having no previous contract better than having one, if ever? When should a manufacturer/retailer take over part (or all) of the other party's operation, instead of considering just a contract? How about the opposite situation? This paper responds these questions in the context of a...

Many manufacturers (e.g., Midea and Haier) have begun investing in green products to reduce carbon emissions and sell through online retailers (e.g., JD). In practice, retailers often obtain more information about market demand than manufacturers, and some of them choose to share the information...