This paper introduces a new motivation for information sharing in decentralized supply chains - as a mechanism to achieve truthful information sharing and to reduce signaling costs. We study a two-echelon supply chain with one manufacturer selling a homogeneous product to n price-setting...

Zaccour (2008) investigates the behaviour of a marketing channel where firms invest in advertising to increase brand equity, showing that an exogenous two-part tariff cannot be used to replicate the vertically integrated monopolist's performance. I revisit the same model proving the existence of...

This paper synthesizes multi-channel supply chain-related research from leading management journals and enlightens the current researcher, states of the research and projecting of where it is heading. Our review involves a strategic finding of the dual/multi-channel pricing decision and...