The blockchain is essentially a shared database, and the data stored is unforgeable, open
and transparent, which may allow the retailers adopting the blockchain technology to attract …

Supply chain management (SCM) deals with various strategic, tactical, and operational level
decisions in which pricing is of utmost importance to decision makers. Most of the real‐life …

We study personalized pricing in a general oligopoly model. The impact of personalized
pricing relative to uniform pricing hinges on the degree of market coverage. If market …

Purpose This paper aims to assess the readiness of retail workers to use blockchain
technology (BCT) to improve supply chain performance. The assessment was made via a …

With the arrival of big data era, competition among companies has gradually transformed
into a competition for data. Data sharing among competitive companies can promote the …

What role does data play in competition? This question has been at the center of a fierce
debate around competition policy in the digital economy. We use a competition-in-utilities …

This article studies tech mergers that involve a large volume of consumer data. The merger
links the markets for data collection and data application through a consumption synergy …

A consumer‐side innovation in online retailing is membership‐based free shipping (MFS) in
which a retailer bears the shipping cost for purchases made by members that have paid an …

The speedy development in information technology has enabled the dominant retailer to
profile consumers and serve them with personalized pricing. Although adopting …

This paper investigates duopoly competition when horizontally differentiated firms are able
to make personalized product-price offers to returning customers, within a behavior-based …