This paper brings to light the powerful connection between buyer and supplier relationships in terms of information … sharing, information quality, and supply chain performance. We show supply chain partners coordinate their activities by … offering high-quality information to enable interactions between buyers and providers. We show information sharing acts as a …

This paper studies an information design problem of a retailer in a two-tier supply chain that procures a single type … disclose information about her signal to persuade the supplier to increase production levels. For this setup, we characterize … the optimal information disclosure policy of the retailer, and shed light on settings where the retailer strictly benefits …

An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the … probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront payment that the consultant can either invest in information … entrepreneurs so long as his informal referrals remain high. The principal finds it optimal to under-utilize information if she uses …