We explore the manufacturer's incentives to use a dual-channel supply chain rather than only a direct or an indirect channel in simultaneous price competition. We first revisit the demand formulation widely used in the context of channel analysis and introduce a different demand formulation...

Distribution includes all activities undertaken by the producer, alone or in cooperation, since the end of the final finished products or services until they are in possession of consumers. The distribution consists of the following major components:Distribution channels or marketing channels,...

The paper suggests a methodology for evaluation of a direct and indirect property distribution and of a transparency of a property structure in an economy. The methodology is applied on the analysis of property structure of the banking sector in the Czech Republic.