This study develops an analytical model to evaluate competing retail firms' sourcing strategies in the presence of supply uncertainty. We consider a common supplier that sells its uncertain supply to two downstream retail firms engaging in price competition in a horizontally differentiated...

Strategic sellers on some online selling platforms have been recently using a conditional-rebate strategy to manipulate product reviews under which only purchasing consumers who post positive reviews online are eligible to redeem the rebate. A key concern for the conditional rebate is that it...

Frequent new product releases pose significant challenges for firms as they manage successive generations of product diffusion. We develop an analytical model to study the effect of different purchase options by strategic consumers on a firm's profit and the firm's strategies for the timing and...

This paper suggests factoring both dynamic indifference band (DIB) and marginal decision rule into boundedly rational day-to-day traffic dynamics modeling. To this purpose, a relative indifference band based DIB is employed to capture the variation of indifference band against dynamical network...

In order to study the impact mechanism of work stress on driver stress and the mediating effect of psychological stress, a questionnaire survey consisting of three subscales was conducted. Subscale 1 was about work stress; Subscale 2 was associated with psychological stress, while Subscale 3...