Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of trust in the unobservable decision-making process of lead investors and follow-on investors in the specific context of equity crowdfunding (ECF) campaigns. Design/methodology/approach: This work employs a case study approach. The...

We consider a single-product, two-source inventory system with Poisson demand and backlogging. Inventory can be replenished through a normal supply source, which consists of a two-stage tandem queue with exponential production time at each stage. We can also place an emergency order by skipping...

Improving resilience has recently attracted enormous interest from academia and practitioners because of unavoidably increasing vulnerabilities in global supply chains. This paper examines the role of supply options in a two-tier supply chain network, consisting of one procurement agency and...