This study proposes a BOPS (buy online and pick up in store) model for two-echelon supply chain, considering the product return risk to reach an equilibrium result of two omni-channel integration modes, managed by manufacturer or retailer, respectively. Furthermore, this analyzes impacts service cost coefficient consumer loyalty offline channel on optimal price, decision, profit different modes...

W incorporate the concept of fairness in a conventional dyadic channel to investigate how fairness may affect channel coordination. We show that when channel members are concerned about fairness, the manufacturer can use a simple wholesale price above her marginal cost to coordinate this channel both in terms of achieving the maximum channel profit and in terms of attaining the maximum channel ...

This paper examines multiple contract design choices in the context of transaction and relational attributes and consequent ex ante and ex post transaction costs. It focuses on two understudied themes in the IT outsourcing literature. First, while the literature is predominantly concerned with opportunism and consequent ex post hazard costs that contracts can safeguard against, parties to a con...

Revenue-sharing contracts are a kind of mechanism aimed at improving performance and achieving precise coordination of the supply chain. In this paper, we analyse and develop the revenue-sharing contract model of the three-level supply chain with distributor’s sales effort dependent demand. The paper discusses the impacts of sales efforts on coordination of the supply chain and explains the rea...

This research work addresses reliability of services coordination expressed as nonfunctional properties (e.g., performance, security, atomicity, persistency, etc) that must be ensured and enforced at execution time. Existing systems, models and languages provide ad-hoc solutions that weave the application logic, expressed as services coordination, with non functional properties, leading to appl...