We theoretically and experimentally examine the impact of pay transparency policies and payment schemes on individuals’ effort decisions and their performance. By considering the “no information” policy as a benchmark that only informs each agent of his own performance and pay, we examine...

This paper investigates the optimal information design for a system to minimize congestion cost in the presence of both autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs). We incorporate asymmetric information between AVs and HVs in a routing game where there are two routes available and...

This paper studies optimal schemes for allocating scarce resources to agents with private demand information and heterogeneous bargaining powers. Through an investigation of a mechanism design model that aims to induce agents to report their demands truthfully, we find the following results....

The retail e-commerce yields lucrative revenue in many industries. In this work, we provide a strategic perspective by investigating how consumer valuation, product quality, and manufacturers’ competition influence the choice of selling agreement using stylized models. The utility and...

Network-based targeting is valuable in many applications such as diffusion of new technology, product promotion in marketing, among others. Nevertheless, how to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of targeting strategies remains a challenge. This paper studies a class of network games with...

Franchising organizations were prevalent for uniform offline stores, but nowadays they face severe challenges from third-party online competitors. While the literature mainly consists of studies that focus on within-franchise relationships and the encroachment of an individual franchisor's...

In the traditional channel, a retailer stocks the product from a manufacturer and sells it to consumers. In contrast, the retailer in the drop-shipping channel relays the consumers’ requests to the manufacturer who stocks and delivers the product to consumers. Due to their different...

Problem definition: Decision makers learn from experience to develop better strategies for organizational operations. This study aims to offer new knowledge on the mechanism through which reflection affects organizational operations performance and the boundary condition of such...

This paper studies a simultaneous-search problem in which a player observes the outcomes sequentially, and must pay reservation fees to maintain eligibility for recalling the earlier offers. We use postgraduate program applications to illustrate the key ingredients of this family of problems. We...

More and more consumers have awareness about environmental protection and platforms and manufacturers invest in eco-friendly operating and manufacturing to stimulate demand and fulfill their social responsibilities. Our paper investigates the platform’s decision on sharing the private demand...