Restaurants have traditionally operated offline only, but food delivery platforms induce their online encroachment. In practice, consumers who share digital coupons offered by the platforms (e.g., Uber Eats and Meituan) in social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter and WeChat) will be rewarded for...

Motivated by dual sales channel operations in cross-border e-commerce, we analyze an e-tailer's strategic waiting decision for channel disruption information in a global supply chain. The e-tailer operates two sales channels: a bonded-warehouse channel with products pre-stocked before channel...