This study proposes a bilevel programming model in which the supply chain (SC) director determines optimal performance levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and compensation for all SC actors, thus maximizing total SC profits. Given the fixed CSR performance levels, the equilibrium product flows are determined in the lower-level model, in which the profit-maximizing behavior of the in...

Many if not most markets with network externalities are two-sided. To succeed, platforms in industries such as software, portals and media, payment systems and the Internet, must “get both sides of the market on board ”. Accordingly, platforms devote much attention to their business model, that is to how they court each side while making money overall. The paper builds a model of platform compe...

This paper develops Fuzzy inventory model to determine the relevant profit maximizing decision variable values. The model proposed is based on individual profits of vendor and buyer and joint total profit of them which finds out optimal ordering quantity, selling price and shipment policies. Shortages are allowed for both of them. Production rate, ordering quantity, shortage and holding cost of...

In a simple model, we show that a joint venture can implement the rates of investment that maximize joint profit when firms’ research abilities are private information. This can be done with budget balance, even though there are participation constraints. There is no conflict between budget balance and participation constraints because firms’ payoffs can depend on ex post signals of abilities. ...

We provide the first test of the consequences of delegation in a mixed duopoly. Such delegation allows a profit maximizing private owner and a welfare maximizing public owner to give a separate weight to sales in managerial contracts. Theory predicts that such contracts improve welfare. Our experimental evidence indicates that both public and private owners do provide a weight on sales consiste...

h MAXIMIZING PRODUCT YIELDS is the primary opportunity to improve profit margins for products during high-volume production. Even more important, quickly ramping yields is tcritical to meeting time-to-market (and ‘‘time-to-money’’) requirements. In several high-profile cases yield issues have materially altered product roadmaps for key sub-40 nm products across the industry, affecting both foun...

In this paper we develop and analyse an inventory model for deteriorating items with mixture of Weibull rate of decay and demand as function of both selling price and time without shortages. Using the differential equations, the instantaneous state of inventory at time„t‟, the amount of deterioration etc. are derived. With suitable cost considerations the total cost function and profit rate fun...

This study attempts to optimize a delivery service strategy for Internet shopping by considering timedependent consumer demand, demand–supply interaction and consumer socioeconomic characteristics. A nonlinear mathematical programming model is formulated for solving the optimal number and duration of service cycles for discriminating strategy by maximizing profit subject to demand–supply intera...