We ask whether, in China, geographic location has explanatory power for firms' inventory turn, and why. To do this, we undertake a variance component analysis (VCA) of firm-level inventory turn, using a panel dataset of 1,531 unique Chinese firms spanning 1999-2008. Our identification arises...

In this paper, we study the fulfillment strategies of an omni-channel retailer that would like to leverage its established offline retail channel infrastructure to help its online sales. We consider a single newsvendor-type product that is sold in both online and offline channels to...