When selling products with highly uncertain demands and short life cycles, it is common for the manufacturer to offer some form of returns policy to entice the distributors to increase their order quantities. In this paper we consider a multi-item returns policy called pooled (or joint) returns...

A major concern in rewards-based crowdfunding is the inherent asymmetric information between the entrepreneur and backers, which impacts both the financing and product innovation. To address the issue of information asymmetry, crowdfunding platforms have introduced a deferred payment mechanism,...

"Growing global trade flows and integration has led to continuous and accelerating changes to our global supply chains over the past decades. Recent macroeconomic events, new technological developments, and most notably COVID-19, are envisioned to push global supply chains in further...