In developing economies, smallholders apply their own specialized knowledge and exert costly effort to manage their farms. To raise overall productivity, NGOs and governments are advocating various knowledge sharing and learning platforms for farmers to exchange a variety of farming techniques....

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...

While there have been vast discussion on the materialistic benefits of continuous improvement from the Toyota and Honda experiences, the academic literature pays little attention to information sharing. In this paper, we construct a dynamic adverse selection model in which the supplier privately...