The success of reverse referral service, whereby a city hospital transfers patients finishing operations to a community one for follow-up treatment, generally depends on the collaboration of these two levels of hospitals. Unfortunately, the free-riding effect in such collaboration may lead to an...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of information asymmetry on revenue sharing contracts and performance in a dual-channel supply chain. First, the authors model the optimum revenue sharing contract in a dual-channel supply chain under both the full information case and...