We examine a manufacturer’s pricing strategies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which the manufacturer is a Stackelberg leader and the retailer is a follower. We show the conditions under which the manufacturer and the retailer both prefer a dual-channel supply chain. We examine the coordination schemes for a dual-channel supply chain and find that a manufacturer’s contract with a wholesale p...

Many policies in the United States are jointly determined by federal and state actions. In the game theoretic model offered here, politicians in both the state and national governments seek credit for providing goods desired by the public and avoid blame for the taxes necessary to provide the goods. In line with Peterson’s (1995) theory of functional federalism, the level of government that is ...

This paper investigates the impact of provided service by the retailers and manufacturers on customers’ demand and members’ profit in a supply chain. It focuses on a supply chain structure with one manufacturer and a common retailer. The demand of customers depends on retailer price and service level. A game-theoretic framework is applied to obtain the equilibrium solutions for each entity in s...

The development of the Internet has changed way that tourism products are sold. More and more product providers (TPPs) use online travel agencies (OTAs) offline (TA) to sell their products. With increasing consumption, service quality also become an important factor for consumers choose Analysing effect on pricing, demand, profits under centralised decentralised decisions helps industry sustain...

This paper proposes a model for dynamic pricing that combines knowledge of production capacity and existing commitments, reasoning about uncertainty and learning of market conditions in an attempt to optimise expected profits. In particular, the market conditions are represented as a set of probabilities over the success rate of product prices, and those prices are learned online as the market ...

Some special events such as adjustments of executives can cause the disruption social welfare responsibility degree (SWRD for short) firm's decision-maker, which may further influence price and service-level decisions supply chain coordination. However, in field management, there are very limited studies on SWRD disruption. Facing potential disruption, we develop game-theoretic models to invest...

Abstract Indonesia’s government has targeted 24% of natural gas in the national energy mix by 2050. However, one main problems development is price mechanism. Unlike many countries, market, including its pricing, still heavily regulated and subsidized government. The low damaged investment climate slowed country. An overview global market evolution, as well a comprehensive analysis transformati...

  Network and processing overhead associated with web services is a significant challenge to its performance. As a result, web service providers often announce a service level agreement. This ensures that consumers, who pay for the service, can get the service at a given quality level. In this paper, we study the competition between two providers offering functionally the same web services, whe...

Terrorism with weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) is an urgent threat to homeland security. The process of counter-WMD terrorism often involves multiple government and terrorist group players, which is under-studied in the literature. In this paper, first we consider two subgames: a proliferation game between two terrorist groups or cells (where one handling the black market for profits prolife...