Decision-Making of Cross-Border E-Commerce Platform Supply Chains Considering Information Sharing and Free Shipping

E-commerce and Supply Chains

Coordination of Information Sharing and Cooperative Advertising in a Decentralized Supply Chain with Competing Retailers Considering Free Riding Behavior

This paper studies a decentralized supply chain in which a manufacturer sells a common generic product through two traditional and online retailers under free riding market. We assume that the traditional retailer provides the value added services but the online retailer does not. Factors such as retail prices, local advertising of the retailers, global advertising of the manufacturer and servi...

Behavior Coordination in E-commerce Supply Chains

This paper studies the behavior coordination of members in e-commerce supply chains with cooperative game theory. Under the environment of e-commerce, the retailers and the supplier can maximize their profits through the cooperation with the information provider. We study this cooperation by means of cooperative game theory and emphasize the importance of the information provider in the coopera...

Trust and Information Sharing in Supply Chains

Drawing on empirical and experimental research into the composition and development of trust, we construct a multi-period model to examine the role of trust in a supply chain. We specifically focus on trust building in the context of a wholesale salesperson who acts as a representative of a manufacturer and shares demand forecast information with a retailer. The actions of the salesperson affec...

Evaluating Information Sharing Strategies in Supply Chains

This paper evaluates the impact of information sharing strategies on the performance of a supply chain. We consider three forms of information sharing strategies: (1) order information sharing where every stage of the supply chain only knows the orders from its immediate downstream stage; (2) demand information sharing where every stage has full information about the market demand; (3) inventor...