Motivated by Google's technology regulation practice in Android device industry, we consider firms' decisions on production timing in a co-opetitive supply chain comprising a manufacturer and an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), where the manufacturer acts as the OEM's upstream contract...

In recent years, emerging markets such as India and Indonesia have encouraged / required multinational firms (MNFs) to produce and sell goods locally. This might change MNFs' previous supply chain structure of "overseas-production-local-sale" (OPLS) to "ocal-production-local-sale" (LPLS). Tax...

Confronting dominant retailers, brand-owners are reported increasingly ally with the dominant retailers or ally with other brand-owners. To study brand-owners' alliance strategies, we consider a bilateral duopoly setting comprising two brand-owners and two dominant retailers. The brand-owners'...

Nowadays, factories located in COVID-19 infected regions (e.g., Vietnam) are facing random outbreaks. If blockchain is adopted, then the outbreaks can be known immediately and emergency production shifting can be enabled, although high crash cost will be incurred. Otherwise, production delay...

To address the carbon lock-in problem, many developing countries have utilized multinational firms’ (MNFs’) mandatory carbon emission reduction requirements for the domestic manufacturers they source from, thereby triggering the latter’s investment in carbon emission reduction. But facing...

In the recent years, supported by Industry 4.0 techniques and government’s strict quality supervision, remanufactured components can be of high quality “as good as new”. This encourages the supplier of remanufactured components to develop self-branded business and encroach on downstream...

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been widely implemented in today’s logistics operations to reduce the handling time and improve service efficiency. This enables a firm to promise a delivery time (PDT) when selling products, which improves customer satisfaction and...

Conventional electricity generation from coal and natural gas is one of the largest greenhouse gas sources and using wind power is an effective way to achieve climate neutrality. Realizing this, green manufacturers such as SC Johnson and Silk decide to use 100% wind power for their manufacture....