Abstract: To understand the dynamics of the manufacturer’s effort to reduce pollution in a supply chain consisting of manufacturer, retailer, and consumers, we analyze four cases according to consumer awareness of the pollution’s harmful effect, i.e., environmentally aware versus ignorant, and supply chain coordination, i.e., competitive versus cooperative. Applying differential games, we deriv...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to document retailer opinions about tobacco control policy at the point of sale (POS) and link these opinions with store level compliance with sales and marketing provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. METHODS This study conducted interviews of 252 tobacco retailers in three counties in North Carolina and linked their opinions with in-person observ...

this study deals with a two-level supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. we consider an integrated production inventory system where the manufacturer processes raw materials in order to deliver finished product with imperfect quality to the retailer, where number of defective product has a uniform distribution. the retailer receives product and conducts a 100% inspection....

M consumer durable retailers often do not advertise their prices and instead ask consumers to call them for prices. It is easy to see that this practice increases the consumers’ cost of learning the prices of products they are considering, yet firms commonly use such practices. Not advertising prices may reduce the firm’s advertising costs, but the strategic effects of doing so are not clear. O...

Under the background of low-carbon economy, cross-shareholding is introduced into closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) composed a manufacturer and retailer, centralized three decentralized decision-making models with different channel power structures are constructed. The recovery, emission reduction, pricing decisions CLSC studied, two-part-tariff contract proposed to coordinate CLSC. results indic...

we model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. t he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. the retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

A small number of retailers are determining more and more how consumer products are made and sold in the US. As widely reported in the trade press, these dominant retailers are dictating their terms to the manufacturers while other retailers do not enjoy the same leverage. In this study, we make the distinction between a dominant and a weak retailer, and investigate the dominant retailer/manufa...

This research paper was designed to examine the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) associations and environmental concerns on consumer-retailer love and attitude toward the retailer, as well as the subsequent effects on consumer behavioral intentions regarding the retailer, such as repeat patronage intention and willingness to pay a premium price for products offered by the reta...

Assuming consumers choose retailers based on their average price perceptions, previous research examined how different retailer pricing strategies (frequent discounting, deep discounting and everyday low pricing) influence these perceptions. In these studies, participants typically viewed competing retailer's product prices over multiple trials that simulated multiple shopping occasions. Then, ...

W use unique data from 245 stores of a UK retailer to study links among middle (store) manager skills, sales, and manager pay. We find that, of the six management practice areas surveyed, the most important is “commercial awareness,” where abler managers achieve up to 13.9% higher sales per worker. We find that many stores have poor managers on this indicator. However, the company is careful to...