Transshipments within a supply chain can be difficult to implement as the costs and benefits are often incurred by different parties. This difficulty becomes even more problematic when the costs and benefits are not completely known by all parties. The primary purpose of this paper is to...

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Stockout is an unfortunate event for businesses. While prior literature has focused on how to prevent stockouts from occurring, we study how supply chain firms can best react to them by converting a potential lost sale or customer into a retained backorder or customer when they do happen. In...

Does following a product strategy of price leadership result in superior performance satisfaction for Chinese exporters? Does branding products and targeting less developed countries significantly improve Chinese exporters' satisfaction with export performance? Results indicate performance...