Purpose The recent surge in behavioral studies on the coordination mechanisms in supply
chains (SCs) and advanced methods highlights the role of SC coordination (SCC) and …

We analyse a principal-agent contracting model with asymmetric information between a
supplier and a retailer. Both the supplier and the retailer have the classical non-linear …

We investigate the capacity investment decision of a supplier who produces a critical
component for a buyer. An incentive conflict is present, because the buyer possesses private …

Abstract Just-In-Time (JIT) system involves frequent shipments of smaller batch sizes from
the supplier to the buyer. For the buyer, it results in the reduction of the inventory holding …

With the increasingly serious energy crisis and environmental problems, the production of
bio-fuel from waste cooking oil (WCO) has attracted government's attention around the …

This paper presents a new scheme for the coordination of dynamic, uncapacitated lot-sizing
problems in two-party supply chains where parties' local data are private information and no …

Supply chains facing asymmetric information can either operate in a cooperative mode with
information and benefit sharing or can choose a non-cooperative form of interaction and …

This paper presents an auction mechanism for the coordination of dynamic, uncapacitated
lot-sizing problems in two-party supply chains where parties' local data are private …

In a supply chain consisting of individualistic parties, the sharing of information is not always
beneficial to each party. If a party discloses his private information it could undermine his …