Firms face significant risk when they adopt digital supply chain systems to transact and coordinate with their partners. Drawn upon modular systems theory, this study proposes that system modularity mitigates the risk of adopting digital supply chain systems and therefore motivates firms to...

This paper studies an outsourcing problem where two service providers (suppliers) compete for the service contract from a client. The suppliers face uncertain cost for providing the service because they do not have perfect information about the client's type. The suppliers receive differential...

Advances in information technologies enable firms to collect detailed consumer data and target individual consumers with tailored ads. Consumer data is among the most valuable assets that firms own. An interesting phenomenon is that competing firms often trade their consumer data with each...

Due to the effects of uncertain factors such as seasonal weather and plant/animal diseases, the output of agricultural production is uncertain given certain agricultural inputs. This paper addresses the issue of coordinating agri-food chain with perishable goods by revenue-sharing (RS) contract...