This paper studies the interaction between a genuine brand firm and a non-deceptive counterfeiter with endogenous quality and anti-counterfeiting effort decisions. We examine how such interaction affects the firms’ decisions and performances, consumers, and society in a vertical...

This paper studies equilibrium channel strategies in a mixed market with a public firm and a private firm. The public firm is concerned with social welfare, while the private firm aims to maximize its own profit. Each firm decides whether to adopt an integrated or a decentralized channel. We...

We investigate the effects of downstream firms’ managerial incentives on upstream collusion. Downstream profit-and-revenue incentive schemes make upstream manufacturers easier to collude than a pure-profit incentive scheme does when retailers compete in prices. However, the opposite occurs...

Conventional wisdom suggests that information sharing benefits at least one of the participants. However, we find that information sharing can be strategically detrimental to both members in a vertical-Nash supply chain. Comparative statics show that each supply chain member׳s beneficial areas...

Lateral transshipments in multi-echelon stochastic inventory systems imply that locations at the same echelon of a supply chain share inventories in some way, in order to deal with local uncertainties in demands. While the structure of a transshipment policy will depend on many important...

Purpose: This paper aims to study the mixed after-sales service which simultaneously offers return and replacement services. The authors develop a model to propose what kind of after-sales service the firm should choose and how to make the after-sales service policy to improve the profit. The...