Shipping experience improvement has been an essential business strategy in e-commerce. Beyond investing directly in reducing shipping speed, online retailers have recently expanded their focus on other shipping strategies, such as offering consumers the option to pick up orders locally in a...

A vertically integrated channel would prefer to coordinate the pricing of its products. In this paper, we investigate drivers of product line pricing decisions in a bilateral monopoly where a manufacturer produces and sells two substitutable or complementary products to a retailer. In a...