Supply chain contracting and the use of information are undoubtedly two critical and
influential areas in modern supply chain management. However, relatively little is known …

Aligning supply chain decisions of separate entities with independent objectives can be
considered to be one of the difficulties of supply chain management. This difficulty becomes …

Suppliers can be considered as inevitable sources of external risks in modern supply
chains. In this context, resilience that stands for the adaptive capability to respond to …

In supply chain (SC) systems, channel coordination can be achieved by incentive alignment
contracts. The contracting mechanisms reported in the literature are usually “short-term …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

Promoting new energy vehicles (NEVs) is one of the most effective means to solve the
increasingly severe energy shortage and environmental pollution problems. Considering the …

The business values of product remanufacturing have been well-recognized in the literature.
Companies have also increasingly realized the importance of coordinating the closed-loop …

Abstract Pioneered by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz in the 1950s, the mean-variance
(MV) formulation is a fundamental theory for risk management in finance. Over the past …

Noting the rise of dominant retailers, we explore the retailer's strategies to deter the
manufacturer from encroaching in a retailer-led setting where the manufacturer keeps his …

This study investigates the optimal contract design with countervailing incentives under
asymmetric selling cost information in a dual-channel supply chain comprising a …