E-tailers such as Amazon and JD.com have long been criticized for the co-existence of copycat and genuine products sold on their platforms. Although many brands have developed blockchain-based digital manufacturing systems which can enable the traceability of the genuine products, consumers...

Nowadays, to achieve sustainable development, many developing countries are worrying about the deteriorating lock-in issues of high carbon. Therefore, policies including tax break, consumer green education, and subsidy for green production are set out to motivate multinational firms (MNFs) to...

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...

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been widely implemented in today’s logistics operations to reduce the handling time and improve service efficiency. This enables a firm to promise a delivery time (PDT) when selling products, which improves customer satisfaction and...

In this paper, we consider the impact of competition type (i.e., quantity competition vs. price competition) to study a manufacturer's preference for decision timing when she establishes the direct channel: she can choose to decide the retail price or quantity in the direct channel earlier than,...

Remanufacturing is a sustainable practice as it can save resources and alleviate environmental pollution. However, the process of remanufacturing can be subject to yield uncertainty if the manufacturer is not sufficiently professional. In this paper, we consider a retailer selling both new and...

Conventional electricity generation from coal and natural gas is one of the largest greenhouse gas sources and using wind power is an effective way to achieve climate neutrality. Realizing this, green manufacturers such as SC Johnson and Silk decide to use 100% wind power for their manufacture....

Recently, government such as India, Canada and China have levied environment tax on production while subsidized the output of remanufactured components to promote resource-saving and pollution reduction. As a result, many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have collaborated with the...

Imported agricultural product is not necessarily of higher quality than local product (e.g., pork containing ractopamine). Therefore, to improve brand image and increase market share, many overseas suppliers have adopted or are planning to adopt blockchain, where the production process without...

In practice, agency e-commerce is also referred to as e-marketplace, where copycats that have nearly identical “consumption quality” with the genuine products are commonly observed. The e-marketplace may not have incentives to combat copycats, so we observe many brands are using a truly new...