This paper studies wholesale price contracts with risk constraints in a supply chain
consisting of a supplier and a capital-constrained retailer. A newsvendor-like retailer may …

The emergence of bike-sharing systems has considerably improved last-and first-mile
transportation systems. To ensure attractiveness to end users, operators aim to design …

Option contracts are used commonly in business to tackle difficulties in working capital
shortage and hedge market risks. In this paper, we consider option contract application in a …

The standard newsvendor model assumes that decision-makers in the supply chain are risk-
neutral. This paper explores the newsvendor problem using risk measures building on the …

The literature has shown that supply chain performance is affected by the allocation of
inventory risk. Traditionally, a pull supply chain generates a higher optimal order quantity …

Social networks connect users to share thoughts and build friendships. The high degree of
intimacy among users has made it a good venue for word-of-mouth (WoM) marketing …

Purpose The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the biases in inventory decisions,
under the umbrella of behavioural operations, considering research findings that used …

In the traditional single-machine scheduling problem with uncertain processing time,
distributionally robust optimization models are established in situations where the …

We investigate the interaction between the retailer's target-based preference and supplier
encroachment. The retailer might be risk-neutral (expects maximum profit) or target-oriented …

Experimental results support that overconfident newsvendors deviate from the optimal
inventory levels to place orders closer to the mean of demand distributions, thereby lowering …