Collaboration in transportation between two or more agents is becoming an important
approach to find efficient solutions or plans. Efficiency can be measured in, for example …

The well-known economic theory predicts that consumer price will fall after a horizontal
merger when the amount of marginal cost reduction from operating synergies exceeds the …

Problem definition: This paper studies two cooperative approaches of firms in managing
social responsibility violations of their supplier: auditing a common supplier jointly (joint …

Despite the benefits of inventory transshipment, numerous behavioral experiments have
revealed that retailers often deviate from the Nash-equilibrium ordering quantities, which in …

Marine plastic waste pollution damages the stability of the marine ecosystem and inhibits the
sustainable development of the" blue economy", which has aroused widespread concern …

This paper studies a merger between price-setting newsvendors in an oligopolistic market. It
is well known that inventory pooling can greatly reduce inventory costs in a centralized …

To reduce the environmental impact and costs associated with road transport, carriers can
collaborate with each other in making deliveries to their customers, typically sharing any …

Suppliers of complementary goods often package their items together when selling to
downstream retailers. One motivation behind this behavior is to reduce double …

This paper presents a general characterization of demand disruption in the supply chain for
stochastic consumer demand, which has an increasing generalized failure rate. A heuristic …

Inventory transshipment is generally shown to be beneficial to retailers by matching their
excess demand with surplus inventory. We investigate an inventory transshipment game …