Purpose: The paper aims to explore the optimal strategies of inventory financing when the risk-averse retailer has different objectives, in the presence of multi-risk, i.e. demand risk, non-operational risk and retailer's strategic default risk. Design/methodology/approach: This paper develops...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the major factors influencing retailer’s optimal ordering strategy in a supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer, where the retailer is newsvendor-like and capital-constrained, and further explore the issue of supply chain...