In recent economic and business environment, firms, especially startups, are interested in financial opportunities, such as capital raising and acquisition. Typically, potential investors will be attracted by firms that exhibit nice trends of profit growth, and therefore firms need to manage...

We consider a three-layer supply chain with a manufacturer, a reseller, and a sales agent. The demand is stochastically determined by the random market condition and the sales agent's private effort level. While the manufacturer is uninformed about the market condition, the reseller and the...

This paper investigates a retailer's incentive of sharing the private demand information with a supplier who may encroach the retail channel by exerting a fixed entry cost. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that a retailer should withhold her private demand observation to keep the...

The success of the bioenergy industry will depend, in part, on enough feedstock being grown. To increase the reliability of the supply of bioenergy, a government can offer two types of subsidy program: a farmer subsidy program (FSP) and a bioenergy producer subsidy program (PSP). We develop...

Many manufacturers sell their products through retailers and share the revenue with those retailers. Given this phenomenon, we build a stylized model to investigate the role of revenue sharing schemes in supply chain coordination and product variety decisions. In our model, a monopolistic...

Problem definition: Outsourcing is a common operations strategy nowadays, but it may lead to an unintended consequence of supplier copycatting. When outsourcing, there is some subtle information that the manufacturer knows but is optional for the supplier to carry out the production task, such...

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...