Revenue sharing contracts (RSCs) have gained considerable popularity over the past two
decades—particularly among prominent platform distributors such as the Apple App Store …

Digital platforms that facilitate interactions between suppliers and consumers have achieved
remarkable success in recent years. Suppliers on digital platforms sell products or services …

This paper examines strategic contracting between a monopoly platform and suppliers that
sell their goods through the platform. I consider two competing suppliers: a high-volume …

This paper focuses on a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a seller and a buyer.
Considering the case where the buyer faces uncertain demand and yield, the paper …

Abstract Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming the business
models and entrepreneurial ecosystems of different economic activities. As a result, the …

Contracts are comprehensive coordination mechanisms used in both theory and practice to
coordinate various supply chain structures. By focusing on the coordination by contracts of …

Noting the rise of dominant retailers, we explore the retailer's strategies to deter the
manufacturer from encroaching in a retailer-led setting where the manufacturer keeps his …

Motivated by the observations that the direct sales channel is increasingly used for
customized products and that retailers wield leadership, we develop in this paper a retailer …

In this study, a dual-channel supply chain (SC) comprising one manufacturer and one
packaging company is considered under price and quality dependent demand. The …

In a one-supplier-one-buyer supply chain, uncertainty occurs not only at the demand side,
but also at the supply side, which is commonly observed in business. Optimization and …