To stay competitive, high-technology manufacturers (HTMs), such as Apple and Intel, not only frequently source new technologies from their suppliers, but also financially support the development of these new technologies into component products or production tools. We consider an HTM that can...

The adoptions of electric vehicles (EVs) rely on the availability of charging infrastructures which are often built by third-party service providers (SPs) in large cities. However, profit-maximizing SPs might locate the piles disproportionally in suburbs versus downtown due to lower costs, which...

In this paper, we study the problem of managing limited retail shelf or storage space for basic products by considering two inventory management strategies: space dedication and space sharing. When space is dedicated to each product, there is more flexibility in planning as different products...

Procurement control (PC) is a practice that the buyer controls the material procurement of the supplier and at the same time takes the inventory risk from the supplier. In this paper we compare PC with a decentralized contracting practice (DC) in the setting of a risk-neutral buyer cooperating...