Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined as corporate activities and their 7 impacts on different social groups. In this paper, CSR is considered in a two-echelon supply 8 chain consisting of an upstream supplier and a downstream firm that are bound by a wholesale 9 price contract. CSR performance (the outcome of CSR conduct) of the whole supply chain is 10 gauged by a global variable a...

In this paper, we show that under certain conditions, strategic decentralization through the addition of a retailer in the distribution channel can increase a manufacturer’s profits. The specific case on which we focus is the quantity coordination (double marginalization) problem for a manufacturer selling durable goods in a two-period setting. We show that the standard solution that coordinate...

Recently, price contract models between suppliers and retailers, with stochastic demand have been analyzed based on well-known newsvendor problems. In Bernstein and Federgruen [6], they have analyzed a contract model with single supplier and multiples retailers and price dependent demand, where retailers compete on retail prices. Each retailer decides a number of products he procures from the s...

I competitive wholesale electricity markets, regulated load-serving entities (LSEs) and marketers with default service contracts have obligations to serve fluctuating load at predetermined fixed prices while meeting their obligation through combinations of long-term contracts, wholesale purchases, and self-generation that are subject to volatile prices or opportunity cost. Hence, their net prof...

Title of dissertation: The Effect of Behavioral Biases on Supply Chain Decisions Anna Gloria Devlin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Wedad Elmaghraby Robert H. Smith School of Business Traditional work in operations management has focused on topics such as supply chain contracts and pricing, studying design of efficient contracts and optimal pricing policies. After these op...

The \double-marginalization" problem associated with linear wholesale price contract has long been recognized as a threat to vertical channel coordination. Many solutions involving more complex contract formats have been proposed to address this problem. Extant economic theories predict these solutions to be revenue and division equivalent in that they all restore full channel e±ciency and give...

in the islamic legal system, sale contract is regarded as among appropriative (tamlīkī) contracts, without any difference existing between the designation of the object of sale and its being wholesale (kullī). thus, there has been a considerable controversy among the jurists on the time for designation of mabī‘ (object of sale) with the presumption that mabī‘ is wholesale, which would bring abo...

Several emerging studies have focused on the pricing issue of bandwidth sharing between Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks; however, most either concentrate on the design of collaborated protocols or figure out the issue without the overall consideration of consumer preferences and contract design. In this study, we explore a wireless service market in which there are two wireless service providers opera...

Several emerging study has focused on the pricing issue of bandwidth sharing between WiFi and WiMAX networks; however, most of them either concentrate on the design of collaborated protocols or figure out the issue without the overall consideration of customer preference and contract design. In the present study, we consider a wireless service market in which there are two wireless service prov...

We consider a variant of the wholesale price-only contract in a simple supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer, where the manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader and the retailer is the follower. In our model, the manufacturer decides the wholesale price first, and then the retailer chooses his order quantity before the stochastic demand is realized but postpones his pricing...