Under the mainframe of current consumption patterns and large supply chains based on profit making practices and conventional technologies, resource and energy management are key topics for sustainable development. Enhancing the resource/energy efficiency is decisive to achieve appropriate...

This paper studies a merger between price-setting newsvendors in an oligopolistic market. It is well-known that inventory pooling can greatly reduce inventory costs in a centralized distribution system because it helps reduce aggregate demand uncertainty. Although such statistical economies of...