Due to the explosive growth trend of cross-border e-commerce, a series problems such as high transportation costs and insufficient publicity are be solved urgently by researching on supply chain from both decision-making coordination perspectives. Under four-incomplete cooperative Stackelberg modes e-commerce members, cost overseas suppliers promotion strategy domestic retailers determine profi...

Contemporary information-sharing environments such as Facebook offer a wide range of social and practical benefits. These environments, however, may also lead to privacy security violations. Moreover, there is usually trade-off between the benefits gained accompanying costs. Due uncertain nature environment lack technological literacy, layperson user often fails miserably in balancing this trad...

“Game Theory” is a promising mathematical tool to improve the utilization of radio frequency spectrum in wireless networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of spectrum sharing between a primary user and a group of secondary users. We formulate our solution in such a way that one of the secondary users will be a secondary primary user by sharing the spectrum offered from the primary user ...

Recently, retailers who directly deal with poultry farmers increase in Japan. It therefore becomes necessary for the poultry farmers to deliver products to the retailers frequently in accordance with the retailers’ demand. The retailer purchases (raw) chicken meat from the poultry farmer. The stock of the poultry farmer increases due to growth, in contrast, the inventory level of the retailer i...

T paper empirically investigates the determinants of retailers’ pricing decisions. It finds that competitor factors explain the most variance in retailer pricing strategy. Only in the cases of price-promotion coordination and relative brand price do category and chain factors explain much variance in retailer pricing. These findings are derived from a simultaneous equation model of how underlyi...

In Cognitive Radio Network, one of the most important issues is spectrum sharing between secondary users. We propose a novel approach to the cooperative spectrum sharing with the use of potential game model in Game Theory. So far, previous work on this problem have assumed that the number of network agents is fixed. However, in real-world networks, the communications loads, i.e. the number of u...

This paper examines the emergence of retail clusters on a supply chain network comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. An agent-based model is proposed to investigate retail location distribution in a market of two complementary goods. The methodology controls for supplier locales and unit sales prices of retailers and suppliers; a consumer’s willingness to patronize a retailer depend...

To understand the joint impact of horizontal and vertical competition on supply chain intermediation, we propose a model of competition in a three-tier supply chain where intermediaries compete to mediate between competing retailers and capacity-constrained suppliers. We argue that in retailer-driven global supply chains it is more realistic to model the retailers as Stackelberg leaders, and sh...

In response to recent calls to study factors that determine a retailer’s stock price, this study draws on signaling theory to examine the impact of two key marketing metrics that are widely disclosed by retailers to investors, advertising spending and growth in same-store sales (COMPS), and highlights the moderating role of various firmand sector-specific factors. Using a stock-response model e...

This study investigates a critical issue for E-retailers: balancing their spending on information technology and advertising. E-retailers often over-spend on advertisement to attract customers, but fail to support them due to inadequate spending on technology infrastructure. In this study we show that the demand generation and site capacity must be synchronized. E-retailers should place a highe...