Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

Financial asset price movement impacts product demand and thus influences operational decisions of a firm. We develop and solve a general model that integrates financial risk hedging into a price-setting newsvendor. The optimal hedging strategy is found analytically, which leads to an explicit...

Purpose: Given the tension between the rationale for and resistance to supply chain integration (SCI), our purpose is to provide an update on the rhetoric and reality of SCI and to test and extend theory related to adoption and efficacy of integration strategies. We examine changes in the level...

Existing literature suggests that the increasing concentration in the retail industry is allowing powerful retailers to exploit their weaker suppliers, which causes the suppliers' performance to suffer. This study takes a collaborative perspective of resource dependency theory and suggests that...

There is limited ability of qualified debtors to access justice in the form of bankruptcy relief in the United States. One-third of bankruptcy filers are below the poverty level. In the words of one researcher, "debtors are simply too broke to file." This paper explores issues of access to...

This article examines several sets of factors that can contribute to ethical misconduct in the workplace: individual factors, organizational factors, and opportunity factors. Following a brief introduction of these sets of factors, an illustrative case is presented to demonstrate the model in...