Abstract The Real Options approach to decision-making has been useful in capturing and
valuing the flexibility inherent in many operating decisions that decision makers are faced …

Trade-in remanufacturing is a commonly adopted business practice under which firms
collect used products for remanufacturing by allowing repeat customers to trade in used …

The retail platform has developed rapidly, but the problem of fake products has also become
increasingly severe. This paper investigates the impact of anti-counterfeiting in a retail …

Every firm has a business model, which is the collection of strategic decisions that determine
how the firm generates a sustainable enterprise through the creation of enough value (its …

Problem definition: We develop and estimate a demand model that can be used to evaluate
and design dynamic pricing policies for single-game tickets by a sports team …

The fair price ticketing curse occurs when an event organizer sells tickets at prices that do
not correspond to underlying demand conditions and does not want resellers to profit from …

Though the sports markets have been growing rapidly, the growth rate of ticket revenues has
trailed other revenue streams. With the push for use of analytics in recent years, sports …

Toward the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, Major League Baseball teams moved away
from fixed ticket prices, to first setting prices according to expected game demand, and …

Generating more than $2 trillion worldwide, entertainment encompasses numerous
industries, such as the motion picture, publishing, music, sports, broadcasting, gaming …

Recent years have witnessed the rise of queue scalping in congestion-prone service
systems. A queue scalper has no material interest in the primary service but proactively …