Bundling is commonly used by online retailers and is receiving increasing attention. We investigate bundling in a dual-channel supply chain whose members use an agency selling contract, where a manufacturer distributes its product with a constant price in the dual-channel and pays a commission...

We consider an e-tailer's upstream supplier who wants to encroach into retailing to earn additional revenue. The supplier needs to decide whether or not to enter the retail market by either selling to consumers on an e-tailer's platform by paying commission fees (agency encroachment) or opening...