this paper develops a closed-loop supply chain including one manufacturer, one retailer and a third party, in which the manufacturer produces a product under appropriate quality and sells it through a retailer in the market. the retailer pays the expense of marketing effort and a third party collects the used products from consumers and sends to the manufacturer. the manufacturer remanufactures...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper deals with a one-period two-stage supply chain, in which loss-averse retailer facing stochastic demand orders products from risk-neutral supplier subject to yield uncertainty. Marketing effort exerted by the is employed enhance final market demand. We first establish performance benchmark, and show that wholesale price contract fails coordinate chai...

This paper reviews present day test structures and illustrates how they hav e ev olved to a continuously changing technology. Structures for measuring resistivity, contact resistance, feature dimensions and overlay errors are presented. Test structures for helping to predict yield and Wafer Reliability Measurements (WLR) are also discussed.

Expansion of commercial vegetable production in Kentucky prompted the updating of the 1998 commercial vegetable budget estimates for Kentucky’s major commercial vegetables in 2000. Updates continued throughout subsequent seasons. These estimated returns to land, labor, and management sought to convey a conservative profitability estimate for comparative purposes among existing and potential com...

* James C. Anderson is the William L. Ford Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Wholesale Distribution, and Professor of Behavioral Science in Management, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He is also the Irwin Gross Distinguished ISBM Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM), located at Penn State University, and a Visitin...

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. SUMMARY • The most important driver behind e-commerce in Taiwan appears to be international competitive pressure; this is especially evident in the manufacturing sector. • E-commerce is more widely diffused ...

Stackelberg differential game models have been used to study sequential decision making in noncooperative games in diverse fields. In this paper, we survey recent applications of Stackelberg differential game models to the supply chain management and marketing channels literatures. A common feature of these applications is the specification of the game structure: a decentralized channel compose...