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作者：Li, Tian; Luo, Huajiang; Shang, Weixin
作者单位：East China University of Science & Technology; Southwest Jiaotong University; Lingnan University
摘要：We study two competing firms' incentives for demand information sharing and their production timing strategies. One firm adopts routine timing, where her production time is fixed according to her previous product models' manufacturing time. The other firm uses strategic timing, where his production time can be strategically chosen to occur before, concurrently with, or after that of the routine-timing firm. The firms decide whether to disclose their private demand information and make quantity...
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作者：Qian, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Quan; Olsen, Tava Lennon
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Wollongong; University of Melbourne
摘要：Equity investment in agricultural cooperatives (co-ops) is typically limited to farmer-members; yet farmers are usually cash-constrained. In addition to the common stock that is held by farmer-members, many co-ops are changing their financial structure by raising equity from external investors. This helps co-ops to collect capital, but also brings to the fore the conflicting benefits of farmers and external investors. In this paper, we develop a two-stage game-theoretic model to examine a star...
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作者：Ma, Buqing; Li, Guang; Kong, Guangwen
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Queens University - Canada; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Consumer information sharing is considered an effective strategy to attract consumers, yet certain high-end retailers, such as Bergdorf Goodman and Farfetch, tend to hinder consumers from sharing information through online reviews. We study a retailer's strategy for consumer information sharing in a supply chain. We find that a retailer's information sharing strategy can prevent manufacturers from extracting excessive profit when consumers are heterogeneous in their valuations of the selling p...
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作者：Qiu, Buhui; Xu, Fangming; Yeung, Andy C. L.; Zeng, Cheng (Colin)
作者单位：University of Sydney; University of Bristol; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Although risk management is widely regarded as an important topic within supply chain (SC) management, little research studies the contagious effect of risk factors along SC networks. By using stock price crashes as an indicator of risk factors, our study reveals that stock price crash risk can be transmitted from major customers to suppliers with a delay of up to two weeks. We show that the information opacity of suppliers is a factor that potentially contributes to the delayed crash contagio...
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作者：Hu, Junming; Xue, Weili; Yang, Yi
作者单位：Zhejiang University; Southeast University - China
摘要：Inspired by emerging financing techniques that offer additional financing options for entrepreneurs, we establish a stylized model to compare two prevalent crowdfunding strategies: Reward-based crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). First, we highlight that the fundamental difference between reward-based crowdfunding and ICO lies in the distinct types of price distortion, resulting in different agency costs. Specifically, compared to the first-best benchmark, reward-based crowdfunding...
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作者：He, Long; Ni, Tu
作者单位：George Washington University; Harvard University
摘要：Digital platforms have improved the efficiency and quality of smart city operations by soliciting more customer inputs, for example, in the form of suggestions. One innovative option in urban transportation is the shared shuttle service, which lies between traditional public transportation and ride-hailing services. Platforms that offer these services can gather customer suggestions in a crowd-starting manner, which provides valuable insights into customer needs. However, this also presents a ...
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作者：Gupta, Ayush; Jayaswal, Sachin; Mantin, Benny
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; University of Luxembourg
摘要：Manufacturing cost plays a crucial role in suppliers' encroachment decisions. A high manufacturing cost impedes suppliers' capacity to encroach. However, cost learning may reduce this cost sufficiently enough to make encroachment profitable for the supplier at a later point in time. Accordingly, he may have an incentive to boost production so as to promote cost learning. Thus, he may drop the wholesale price to induce the retailer to buy more. On the one hand, cost learning may enable encroach...
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作者：Baron, Opher; Cire, Andre A.; Savaser, Sinem K.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：We consider an order fulfillment problem of an omni-channel retailer that ships online orders from its distribution center (DC) and brick-and-mortar stores. Stores use their local information, not observed by the retailer, that can lead them to accept or reject fulfillment requests of items in an online order. We investigate the problem of sequencing requests to stores and inventory rationing decisions at the DC to minimize expected costs under uncertain store acceptance behavior and when item...
