Green manufacturers are faced with decision problems whether to acquire the quality
information from third-party assessment agencies and to disclose the quality information to …

Quality information acquisition and disclosure have significant ramifications for supply chain
members. This study investigates the interaction between a manufacturer's product quality …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find the optimal environmental quality criteria for a
strategic eco-labeling authority with three objectives (ie maximizing the aggregate …

This paper investigates a retailer's quality information acquisition and ordering decisions in
the presence of risk aversion. We formulate a newsvendor model and derive the retailer's …

Compared with the conventional hotel providing a standardized service, individual supply
on an accommodation-sharing platform makes consumers uncertain about service quality …

Firms have an incentive to test competitors' products to reveal violations of safety and
environmental standards, in order to have competitors' products blocked from sale. This …

Interfirm credit, a financial relationship between two firms, has garnered recent attention due
to its potential to aid innovative startups' funding challenges and shape competitive …

In the supply chain, retailers usually have inherent advantages over manufacturers in
obtaining demand information because they are closer to the final market and can directly …

This paper considers a duopoly in which one firm doesn't know its rival's realized cost but
can invest in competitive intelligence (CI) to gather information before competition. The …

The acquisition and sharing of reviews have significant ramifications for the selection of
crowdsourcing designs before mass production. This article studies the optimal decision of a …