Antitrust regulations are meant to promote fair competition in the market, but balancing administrative and legal costs with enforcement can be difficult when multilayered supply chains involved. The canonical example of this challenge is landmark Illinois Brick ruling, which limits antitrust damages only direct purchasers a product; for instance, consumers file claims against colluding retaile...

Abstract We consider a vertical supply chain in which monopoly retailer produces good by assembling number of essential components each is owned monopoly. Rather than making the common assumption that component price set same way for owner, we investigate possibility may profit bargaining with some owners group, whilst others their to maximize own profit. Furthermore, can self-select into one t...

Evaluating the performance of supply chains is a difficult task due to the complexity inherent to the size and the structure of the supply chain. This paper presents a framework for evaluating and providing approximate dimensioning for supply chains. The framework is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a dynamic tool for measuring the relative technical, pure technical and scale efficie...

Firms are increasingly embracing integrated Web-based or e-supply chains because such chains are believed to enhance efficiency and competitiveness. The e-supply chain movement has received a boost from a variety of off-the-shelf supply chain software solutions that have appeared on the market. However, in the excitement about these software solutions, it is often overlooked that creation and i...