In life, trust is considered the base of all relationships, including Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships. The selection of a supplier depends not only on its reputation and the costs involved, but also on its trustworthiness and other factors. But how can the trustworthiness of a supplier be measured? What are the factors that influence the supplier’s trustworthiness, i.e., what are the r...

Femtocells Access Points (FAP) are low power, plug and play home base stations which are designed to extend the cellular radio range in indoor environments where macrocell coverage is generally poor. They offer significant increases in data rates over a short range, enabling high speed wireless and mobile broadband services, with the femtocell network overlaid onto the macrocell in a dual-tier ...

To achieve the needs of business collaboration between business-related multi-core enterprise clusters based on Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, a multi-core management mechanism based on single-core collaboration relationship and business-related multi-core collaboration relationships were erected for the modern industrial system. On base of implicit authority of business functions, a co...

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are regarded as a promising approach to handle the deluge of mobile data traffic. With the co-channel deployment of small cells, the coverage and capacity of the network will be improved. However, the conventional maximum-received-power (MRP) user association scheme and cross-tier interference issue significantly diminish the performance gain provided by small c...

Examines the individual buyer-supplier relationships of the four major Japanese automobile manufacturers. Building on the relationship marketing and the interorganizational trust literature, relates their supplier management practices to the type of supplier organizations they use, the relative sales revenues, number of employees, and profitability of both buyers and suppliers, and the level of...

In this paper, we consider the problem of simultaneous determination of retail price and lot-size (RPLS) under the assumption that the supplier offers a fixed credit period to the retailer. It is assumed that the item in stock deteriorates over time at a rate that follows a two-parameter Weibull distribution and that the price-dependent demand is represented by a constant-price-elasticity funct...

Internet based marketplaces have enabled industrial buyers to locate suppliers from geographically diverse locations. This has resulted in increased variations in certain supplier parameters such as capacity and cost among the participating suppliers. However, the impact of this increased heterogeneity on the procurement practices are not well understood. In this paper we consider three supplie...

Consider a three‐tier industry with monopolist supplying manufacturer which sells its product to final consumers through two retailers. Contracts are linear and secret. Hence, upon receiving an out‐of‐equilibrium offer, each retailer must form belief about the identity of deviating upstream firm. This beliefs' specification problem wipes out if Open Book Accounting (OBA) policy is implemented, ...

This paper investigates a retailer-leading two-tier supply chain with buyback contract under market demand uncertainty, where the retailer first announces potential maximal order quantity and supplier then provides unit wholesale price to influence retailer’s quantity. In recent years, an increasing number of experimental studies have reported that even in repeated multi-turn games, decisions s...