Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the supply chain coordination with contracts.
Numerous supply chain models are discussed. In each model, the supply chain optimal …

Advances in information technology, particularly in the e‐business arena, are enabling firms
to rethink their supply chain strategies and explore new avenues for inter‐organizational …

In recent years, the rapid development of online marketplaces has given rise not only to co‐
opetitive relationships between sellers but also to information asymmetries between online …

We develop a theory that shows signaling a firm's fundamental quality (eg, its operational
capabilities) to lenders through inventory transactions to be more efficient—it leads to less …

This study investigates a retailer's incentive for sharing private demand information with a
supplier who may encroach the retail channel by imposing a fixed entry cost. Although …

Information sharing becomes increasingly important in recent years as online platforms
gather massive consumer information that is typically invisible by upstream manufacturers …

On-demand platforms (eg, Uber, Lyft) often rely on independent workers, who are not
directly under the platform's control, to be available at the “right” time and locations to serve …

We examine a model in which a supplier sells products through an online platform and an
offline retailer under conditions of demand uncertainty. The actual demand potential can be …

We consider the problem of sharing demand information in two competing supply chains,
each consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. Information sharing allows a …

The purpose of this paper is the empirical analysis of supply chain risk management
practices. The analysis is based on a survey with 67 manufacturing plants conducted in the …