Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the causal mechanisms that explain relationship between long-term buyer–supplier and buyer performance. Building on growing body social capital in supply chain management (SCM), authors examine how a achieves superior performance forming enduring partnership with supplier through two different forms embeddedness: dyadic embeddedness externa...

A seller of a nondurable good repeatedly faces a buyer who is privately informed about the position of his demand curve. The seller offers a price in each period. The buyer chooses a quantity given the price. The quantity demanded reveals information about the buyer. An equilibrium is characterized with the feature that buyer types separate completely in the first period. This equilibrium uniqu...

We develop a model to determine an integrated vendor-buyer inventory policy for items with imperfect quality and planned backorders. The production process is imperfect and produces a certain number of defective items with a known probability density function. The vendor delivers the items to the buyer in small lots of equally sized shipments. Upon receipt of the items, the buyer will conduct a...

In this paper, we consider a dual-channel vendor-buyer system consisting of a buyer and two vendor-owned facilities: a central distribution center (DC) and a regional DC. Orders for a single item are delivered through two distinct channels: an indirect channel, comprising the central DC, the regional DC and the buyer; and a direct channel, comprising the central DC and the buyer, bypassing the ...

Digital Image Watermarking is a technique for inserting information into an image that can be later extracted for a variety of purpose including identification, ownership authentication, and copyright protections. The goal of this paper is to design a secure watermarking scheme in spatial domain to identify the true buyer and to protect the ownership copyright of digital still images. The schem...

As the markets of digital contents over computer networks become more popular, illegal redistribution of contents by a buyer becomes the more serious problem. To deter illegal redistribution, various fingerprinting schemes have been proposed. The fingerprinting schemes enable merchants to embed information which identifies the original buyer to the purchased content. Identifying the original bu...