Country image, brand image, and warranty knowledge are essential for evaluation and decision-making. This study examines the effects of these three variables on the purchase intentions of a car as a high-involvement product with high-risk attributes. This study investigates the role of consumer...

The continuously updated database of failures and censored data of numerous products has become large, and on some covariates, information regarding the failure times is missing in the database. As the dataset is large and has missing information, the analysis tasks become complicated and a long...

How to set proper warranty lengths for different components is a common problem for manufacturers who produce end products when pricing. This study investigates a pricing game between a vertically integrated manufacturer and an exterior end-product manufacturer with the vertically integrated...

We consider a supply chain where multiple suppliers and a manufacturer contribute to the assembly of a product (through providing components or labor). The product fails if any of its components (or elements of work) fails, but finding the faulty component can be prohibitively difficult. We...