Under the circumstances of global carbon emissions reduction, it has become a trend to
promote the adoption of clean energies, such as solar energy. With the increasing maturity …

Under group buying, quantity discounts are offered based on the buyers' aggregated
purchasing quantity, instead of individual quantities. As the price decreases with the total …

In a two-stage supply chain (SC) without a buy-back contract, retailers may encounter two
types of regrets stemming from demand uncertainty, under-ordering regret and over …

Problem definition: This paper studies two cooperative approaches of firms in managing
social responsibility violations of their supplier: auditing a common supplier jointly (joint …

Involving suppliers deep in the supply chain is critical for the success of environmental and
social responsibility (ESR) initiatives. Administering ESR programs throughout a complex …

This paper studies a cooperative game of inventory transshipment among multiple firms. In
this game, firms first make their inventory decisions independently and then decide …

Suppliers of complementary goods often package their items together when selling to
downstream retailers. One motivation behind this behavior is to reduce double …

In this paper, we study the stability of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs). GPOs exist
in several sectors and benefit its members through quantity discounts and negotiation power …

Firms in interorganizational networks are exposed to interdependent risks that are
transferable across partner firms, such as contamination in food supply chains or data …

The publication credit allocation problem is one of the fundamental problems in
bibliometrics. There are two solutions which do not use any additional information: equal …