A presence on the web tends to be important for firms. Empirical studies show that firms with a better performance across various dimensions, and firms that are more internationally active, tend to have a website. Furthermore, a website helped firms to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. An...

Real effective exchange rate (REER) imbalances may affect economic growth by altering the allocation of labour and capital across sectors. This study assesses whether the component of inter-sectoral production factor misallocation induced by REER misalignments significantly hinders economic...

We analyze a channel of distribution where a monopolistic manufacturer, as leader of the channel, selects distribution intensity and wholesale price, and independent retailers follow by selecting price. Retailer competition is analyzed using a new model that combines the Salop model of circular...

E-learning is now a necessity for rural people. During Covid-19, when students were indoors, it gained momentum. Radios, TVs, mobiles, You Tube channels, etc. helped. E-Learning saves time, money, and transportation. E-Learning is cheaper than traditional learning. Online learning requires no...

Online shoe store, E-commerce is electronic commerce, buying and selling products and services, transmitting budgets and facts over digital networks. These transactions occur from commercial enterprise to enterprise, business to a buyer, purchaser to a customer, and the client to commercial...

This paper quantifies the degree of competition among Wal-Mart and different retail channels by exploiting a unique dataset that describes a consumer’s choice of store. Using a discrete choice model, I estimate a consumer’s choice of retailer in the sales market for DVDs among online, mass...

This paper discusses a case that a supply chain consisting of a manufacturer (M) and an e-tailer (Y) at the initial stage. There is a new e-tailer (Y) who enters the market with some probability. Both e-tailers have two selling modes to choose from, i.e., the agency selling mode and the...

Objective: The objective of the article is to examine how respondents' technological readiness (as an individual factor besides demographic characteristics) influences channel preference (in-store, online big- and small-screen at different stages of the purchasing decision process for high-value...

Purpose: The Covid-19 pandemic affected customers' shopping and returns behaviours and significantly aggravated the problem of high product returns rates and returns fraud. Measures for public health and safety resulted in retailers modifying their returns processes. This study describes the...

Many e-marketplaces use national brand sellers' contract manufacturers to produce their e-commerce brand products, and some of the e-marketplaces also advertise that their e-commerce brand products have the same contract manufacturers as excellent national brand products to take advantage of the...

Several major on-line platforms operate two channels: an agency channel in which suppliers retain control over prices and quantities and pay a portion of sales revenue to the platform, and a reselling channel in which the platform purchases goods from the supplier and resells them to consumers....

We consider a distribution channel comprising of a supplier and a retailer, where the retailer can collect customer data, use it to profile them, and personalize its retail prices based on this information. Depending on the retailer's data collection ability, two personalized pricing strategies...

Improving the efficiency in the links in the supply chains of agri-food products is relevant in terms of the assessment methodology and practical aspects for ensuring and supporting sustainable supply chains of products not only in individual channels of product movement but also in the...

Automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are dedicating significant efforts to maintaining an efficient order catalog in order to provide superior products to customers in make-to-stock (MTS) markets. Although research on product “assortment planning” is expanding to effectively...

The size distribution of firms is an important indicator of market concentration. Studying the distribution of sales for eBay’s commercial sellers, this paper provides the first analysis of a firm size distribution (FSD) at an online market, further examining its evolution, and the underlying...

Two-invoice mechanism (TIM) was introduced by the Chinese government with the purpose of reducing pharmaceutical prices. This paper studies the impact of the TIM on a pharmaceutical supply chain consisting of a manufacturer, buyer, and agent (in the absence of a TIM) or a third-party (in the...

This paper examines how consumers create social capital in their interactions with other customers and service personnel while shopping in retail stores with both physical and digital locations. We draw on the servicescape literature to explore the role of social capital in determining the...

Purpose: The Supply chain channel serves to strengthen positioning in competing to serve customers. This study examines the business unit in the supply chain channel in producing food products from Cowhide in Indonesia. There are many business units with high demand for rawhides from cattle for...

Purpose - Fundamental changes in economic relations, instability of the market environment in which enterprises operate and increased intensity of competitive influences to obtain better business conditions emphasize the importance of the nature of interaction for all participants of business...

In a matter of decades, digital technologies have transformed the way we communicate with others, conduct business, produce goods and services, as well as the way we live, work, and spend our spare time. These, often rapid, developments hold a lot of promise for the future, in terms of wealth...

In the new reality caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, consumers had to face many challenges, primarily the need to make purchases remotely. Consequently, consumers have been forced to use digital communication channels more often, and many have been forced to use these...

This paper explores a causal link between aging of the labor force and declining trends in the real interest rate in Japan. We develop a search/matching model that features heterogeneous workers with respect to their ages and firm-specific skills. Using the model, we examine the long-run...

With behavior-based pricing (BBP), retailers use customers’ purchase records to price discriminate between new and past customers. In this paper, we investigate BBP in a setting where sales channels have different purchasing convenience, indicating that channels are asymmetric. We examine how...

We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet retailers can free ride off of that promotional effort. This...

The paper presents continuous and both capacitated/uncapacitated location-allocation problem (LAP) concerning location of distribution centers (DCs) and their allocation to groups of customers (stores) served by a retail physical distribution network. The primary purpose is to develop a model of...

This article investigates the condition under which a manufacturer and a retailer in a two-member channel should adopt reselling or agency selling. Three game-theoretic models in which price and advertising decisions affect consumer demand are analyzed. Contrary to common belief about agency...

This study empirically investigates the link between global companies' brand strength and consumers' actual purchase behaviors by considering online purchasability and the geographical area in the context of boycott campaigns. To test the hypotheses, we employed a hierarchical multiple...

An increasing number of online retailers (e.g., Amazon.com and JD.com) who are established as pure resellers are providing marketplace services allowing suppliers to directly sell products to consumers. These platforms’ hybrid roles of resellers and marketplaces make it possible for suppliers...

The relationship between brand equity and channel governance is recognized in practice and is of particular interest to senior managers. However, research in marketing on this topic is limited and practitioners and scholars seem divided on the nature of this relationship. To guide practice and...