E the tension between theory and practice regarding complexity and performance in contract design is especially relevant. The goal of this paper is to understand why simpler contracts may commonly be preferred in practice despite being theoretically suboptimal. We study a two-tier supply chain with a single supplier and a single buyer to characterize the impact of contract complexity and asymme...

Purpose The authors investigate the manufacturer's choice of discount schemes in a supply chain with competing retailers. Design/methodology/approach Using game-theoretic model, build two frameworks and compare analyze effects different on performance members. Findings find that retail price (market demand) quantity scheme is always higher (lower) than market share scheme. also retailers' prefe...

assess the ecological effects of economic activity on the water, earth and man in the iranian economy approach using input - output tablewater is a vital resource for each biological and economic phenomenon. water is considered as a production input. production is not possible without water in all economic sectors. also, the environment including air, soil, fauna and plants utilize water in the...

The purpose of this paper is to present a polynomial time algorithm which determines the lot sizes for purchase component in Material Requirement Planning (MRP) environments with deterministic time-phased demand with zero lead time. In this model, backlog is not permitted, the unit purchasing price is based on the all-units discount system and resale of the excess units is possible at the order...

Motivated by the operational environment in high-tech industries, this paper examines the coordination between and when time to market and capacity marketing operations utilization are both main factors. In contrast to earlier joint lot-sizing literature which focuses on price-quantity coordination, our model captures the inter-relationship between order quantity, capacity level, and lead-time....