Purpose: The purpose of this paper is, to examine the optimal pricing and ordering strategy of two competing chains with customer returns in Bertrand-Nash game and Stackelberg game, and to investigate in what cases the manufacturer can make more profits from customer returns policy....

Games with strategic substitutes (GSS) are generally less tractable than games with strategic complements (GSC). This paper revisits the GSC versus GSS comparison by establishing a novel connection between them. We show through a network perspective that, when the strategy set of each player is...

In this work, we study the assortment planning games in which multiple retailers interact in the market. Each retailer owns some of the products and their goal is to select a subset of products, i.e., an assortment to o er to the customers so as to maximize their expected revenue. The purchase...