This study analyzes a monopolistic seller’s optimal differential pricing problem with strategic consumers connected in social networks. The consumers who purchase in the later period can get positive externality from their friends who purchased in the early period but have to bear a utility...

We study the Cournot competition between two supply chains that are subject to supply uncertainty. Each supply chain consists of a retailer and an exclusive supplier which has random yield. We examine how the levels of supply uncertainty and competition intensity affect the equilibrium decisions...

We investigate a dominant retailer’s optimal joint strategy of pricing and timing of effort investment and analyze how it influences the decision of the manufacturer, the total supply chain profit, and the consumers’ payoff. We consider two pricing schemes of the retailer, namely, dollar...