Stable alliance structures among monopoly component-suppliers in a decentralized assembly system are somewhat well understood. However, when there are competing suppliers for any particular component, less is known about such alliances. The intent of this paper is to address some of the...

This paper analyzes the contracting of maintenance services provided by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to an operator for a device. The service provider can exert different levels of maintenance effort during the course of the contract and the device's reliability (uptime) is...

We study dynamic pricing policies for a monopolist selling perishable products over a finite time horizon to strategic buyers. Buyers are strategic in the sense that they anticipate the firm's price policies. It is expensive and administratively difficult for most brick and mortar retailers to...