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...

The past decade has witnessed significant movements to push manufacturing back to developed countries. Such movements call for raising import tariffs and increasing consumers' valuation on products made from locally sourced components. These factors are believed to motivate local sourcing for...

When designing new products, firms face not only customer preference uncertainty, but also sophisticated social influence among customers. The social influence suggests that customers' decisions could be influenced by the mainstream view/opinion shared by the crowd; e.g., conformist customers...