In Zavanella and Zanoni (2009) 'A one-vendor multi-buyer integrated production- inventory model: The ‘Consignment Stock’ Case,' a one-vendor multi-buyer model was established, based on which the cost of the vendor and buyers are derived. However, buyer’s total cost in Equation (2) does not...

Priceline.com patents the innovative marketing strategy, Name-Your-Own-Price (NYOP), that sells opaque products through customer-driven pricing. In this paper, we study how competitive suppliers with sub- stitutable, non-replenishable goods may sell their products (1) as regular goods through a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed catastrophic impacts on the restaurant industry as a crucial socioeconomic sector that contributes immensely to the global economy. However, what remains incomplete is our quantitative understanding of how the restaurant industry was recovered from COVID-19 in...

It is commonly assumed in private label literature that store brands are of lower quality than competing national brands. In this paper, we contest this notion by studying quality competition between a national- brand manufacturer and a store-brand retailer. The manufacturer sells its...