Prior literature has shown that, for a symmetric information setting, supplier encroachment into a reseller's market can mitigate double marginalization and benefit both the supplier and the reseller. This paper extends the investigation of supplier encroachment to the environment where the...

The objective of this paper is to extend existing understanding of supplier encroachment to contexts in which there is information asymmetry and the supplier can use nonlinear pricing. Prior research has shown that supplier encroachment can mitigate double marginalization and thus benefit both...

In section E.C.1, we show that the optimal separating solution always dominates the optimal pooling solution in our model. In section E.C.2, we present two extensions of our base model. In EC.2.1, we extend our model to a setting with a continuously distributed market size. We allow for the...

We consider on-demand healthcare platforms that allow patients to seek care online from distributed doctors. Healthcare costs have been steadily increasing, while patient experience continues to sour with costly (many times unnecessary) commute and waiting. To alleviate the costs, various...

Problem Definition: Although it is well known that a reseller’s ability to hold strategic inventory under a short-term supply contract can potentially benefit both the reseller and a supplier, existing research on strate- gic inventory focuses almost exclusively on exclusive reselling...

It is now widely accepted that a retailer’s use of strategic inventory can mitigate double marginalization and improve the coordination of a supply chain, potentially benefitting both the downstream retailer and an upstream manufacturer. However, this conclusion has typically been based on the...