Prior experimental research shows that, in aggregate, decision makers acting as suppliers to a newsvendor do not set the wholesale price to maximize supplier profits. However, these deviations from optimal have rarely been examined at an individual level. In this study, presented with scenarios...

Discretionary commonality is a form of operational flexibility used in multi-product manufacturing environments. Consider a case where a firm produces and sells two products. Without discretionary commonality, each product is made through a unique combination of input and production capacity....

Problem definition: This paper studies an entrepreneur's pricing strategy in a reward-based crowdfund-ing campaign under asymmetric product quality information. We propose two signaling mechanisms and investigate the relative performance of these mechanisms under different market...