Based on a supply chain framework, we study the stocking decision of a downstream buyer who receives private demand information and has the incentive to influence her capital market valuation. We first characterize a market equilibrium under a general, single buy-back contract. We show that the buyer’s stocking decision can be distorted in equilibrium. Such a downstream stocking distortion hurt...

In this paper, we study the role of capacity on the efficiency of a two-tier supply chain with two suppliers (leaders, first tier) and one retailer (follower, second tier). The suppliers compete via pricing (Bertrand competition) and, as one would expect in practice, are faced with production capacity. We consider a model with differentiated substitutable products where the suppliers are symmet...

This paper incorporates remanufacturing decisions with pricing and supplier and component selection decisions in a multi-level green supply chain with multiple suppliers, one single manufacturer and multiple retailers. The manufacturer purchases optional components of a certain functionality from his alternative suppliers or remanufacture from recycled components and customizes a set of platfor...

T his article studies the impact of modular assembly on supply chain efficiency. In the modular assembly approach, a manufacturer acquires pre-assembled modules from its suppliers, rather than the individual components, as in the traditional assembly approach. We analyze the competitive behavior of a two-stage modular assembly system consisting of a manufacturer, and a supplier who pre-assemble...

We study competition and coordination in a supply chain in which a single supplier both operates a direct channel and sells its product through multiple differentiated retailers competing in quantities. We study analytically the supply chain with symmetric retailers and find that the supplier generally prefers to have as many retailers as possible in the market, even if the retailers’ equilibri...

Abstract Bounded rationality, asymmetric information and foreign trade are widespread in the economic market, have been studied extensively oligopoly games, but there not many works discussing bounded rationality supply chain hybrid game. In contrast with existing works, our study, we innovatively construct a duopoly Bertrand–Cournot game model transnational information. It is assumed that upst...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we introduce and study a class of generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problem‎, ‎which includes many vector equilibrium problems‎, ‎equilibrium problems‎, ‎vector variational inequalities and variational inequalities as special cases‎. ‎using one person game theorems‎, ‎the concept of escaping sequences and without convexity assumptions‎, ‎we prove some existence results for ...

We consider a supply chain in which an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) authorizes the remanufacturing business to third-party remanufacturer (TPR). The OEM may make investment hold equity TPR. This operation not only enables share profit of TPR as forward shareholding chain, but also improve production efficiency and consequently benefits whole chain. characterize equilibrium decisions al...