Supply chain partnerships exhibit varying degrees of power distribution among the agents. This has implications for pricing and operational decisions in the channel and eventually influences the end customers. To understand how different power schemes affect the supply chain partners’...

In this paper, we study the impact of demand uncertainty on the build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract design by optimizing a bi-objective problem via three critical decisions: toll, capacity and concession period. We derive the optimums and identify the public and private sector’s economic...

In cross-border e-commerce, free-shipping service and product price jointly influence consumers' purchase decisions. When brand-owners offer free-shipping service, it will bear both logistics and import tariff fees. Otherwise, these fees will be paid by the consumers. In this paper, we study the...

Restaurants have traditionally operated offline only, but food delivery platforms induce their online encroachment. In practice, consumers who share digital coupons offered by the platforms (e.g., Uber Eats and Meituan) in social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter and WeChat) will be rewarded for...

Self-executing smart contract is believed to revolutionize global procurement by eliminating payment delay and enhancing transaction efficiency. This paper studies the value of smart contract in global procurement, and how the tariff regulations (specific tariff and ad valorem tariff) would...

To ensure the imported vaccines’ high quality, many countries such as Canada, the UK and China require the imported vaccine provider to cooperate with an exclusive domestic agent for vaccine sales. In this paper, we examine the role of promised-deliver-time (PDT) for the transport of vaccines...

Facing the urgent demand of medical devices for COVID-19 treatment, many automakers have recently begun manufacturing ventilators, even though they are inefficient in production and uninformed of demand variability. To help them, some incumbent ventilator manufacturers choose to voluntarily...

Facing the urgent demand of medical devices for COVID-19 treatment, many automakers have recently begun manufacturing ventilators, even though they are inefficient in production and uninformed of demand variability. To help them, some incumbent ventilator manufacturers choose to voluntarily...