Contracts are comprehensive coordination mechanisms used in both theory and practice to
coordinate various supply chain structures. By focusing on the coordination by contracts of …

Research on tacit knowledge in the entrepreneurship field has raised a significant amount of
interest in recent years and has developed both quickly and unequally. On the one hand …

This paper studies a two-tier duopoly competing supply chain system consisting of two
manufacturers and two exclusive retailers. Both manufacturers produce differentiated …

This study investigates the effect that strategic inventory (SI) has on a supply chain
consisting of a common retailer and two manufacturers in a two-period decision setting. In …

This study reveals that the environmental tax gets less stringent when the manufacturer's
distribution channel becomes more decentralized. Contrary to the classic double …

This article investigates downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game of
competition between supply chains. We show that downstream firms with buyer power can …

This study explores two competing manufacturers' green investment decisions with different
market sizes in selling price-and green-level-differentiated substitutable green products …

This paper applies repeated game theory to tacit collusion in dynamic distribution channels
based on the grim trigger strategy. We examine competitors' choice of the strategic …

We study the contracts of 898 legal Finnish cartels. Cartels that exclusively allocate markets,
either geographically or in the product/production space, are dominant in manufacturing …

This paper investigates the impact of the subsidy and horizontal strategic cooperation on a
green supply chain where two competing manufacturers distribute substitutable green …