We investigate the impact of government subsidy schemes and channel power structure on the level of innovation in a two-tier supply chain. Our results indicate that consumer subsidies are more effective than producer subsidies in promoting innovation investment for a given channel power...

Backward shareholding and supplier development are commonly observed strategies to maintain vertical relationship for downstream buyers. This paper investigates the downstream buyer's relationship management strategy choice in the presence of upstream supplier's forward shareholding. We consider...

We consider preventive transshipments between two stores in a decentralized system with two demand subperiods. Replenishment orders are made before the first subperiod, and the stores may make transshipments to one another between the subperiods. We prove that the transshipment decision has a...