Purpose Online reviews have shown important information that affects consumers’ online shopping behavior. However, little research has examined how they may influence impulse buying The purpose of this paper is to bring theoretical and empirical connections between them. Design/methodology/approach framework study was tested on three popular group websites in China (ju.taobao.com, dianping.com, meituan.com). An survey with 315 participants who had experience using these recruited verify the...

This paper considers a supply chain consisting of manufacturer and retailer. The sells its products through the retailer an online platform adopts green technology in blockchain era. can operate with marketplace mode or reselling mode. network effect is considered to reflect power enlarge potential market size. In decentralised chain, encroaches offline demand despite same retail price. increase coefficient improves abatement level, benefits but damages retailer's profit. For coordination,...

We study an online platform’s demand information sharing strategy in a distribution channel where manufacturer distributes products through both platform and seller channels.

The paper investigates newsvendor problem for a dyadic supply chain in which both the supplier and retailer have preference of status-seeking with fairness concerns. Nash bargaining solution is introduced as reference point equilibrium results are derived. effects fairness-concerned behaviors on optimal decisions well channel efficiency further analyzed. It shown that will decrease because such behavioral preference. retailer's share be larger when concerns less, supplier's sensitivity to...

After consideration of a supply chain consisting manufacturer and retailer, this paper uses two-stage Stackelberg game to explore the production decision as well government cap setting with wholesale price revenue sharing contracts under cap-and-trade regulation. We also compare total carbon emission social welfare two contracts. list some main conclusions. Firstly, we find that government's over-allocated credits may damage manufacturer's profit or contract, which can increase difficulty...

Annually, millions of containers enter and exit the stacking area a terminal. If operations are not efficient, long ship, train, truck delays will result. To improve operations, new container terminals, especially in Europe, decouple landside seaside by deploying twin automated cranes. The cranes cannot pass each other must be separated safety distance. We study how to schedule carry out set storage retrieval requests single block yard. Storage initially located at input/output (I/O) points...

Bundling strategies have been widely adopted by online retail platforms that use agency selling, where suppliers pay a commission fee to the platform gain access and sell directly consumers. We study optimal bundling strategy for through which two independent distribute their products. The first set product prices, and, subsequently, decides whether offer products as bundle if so, price of bundled product. By analyzing two‐stage Stackelberg game, we find adopts only when rate prices are...

This paper studies a cooperating mode selection problem of manufacturer who sells its products through an offline channel and online platform under cap-and-trade regulation. The can operate with marketplace or reselling mode. We investigate the manufacturer's optimal operational decisions platform's modes considering demand disruptions. First, when carbon cap decreases in application process, this regulation is firstly easy then hard to be implemented if cross-channel effect small. Even...

Reseller contract and online marketplace are two typical supply chain contracts provided by Online retail platforms (ORPs) in retailing. Manufacturers can either wholesale their products to an ORP using the traditional reseller or choose agency selling sell directly consumers through ORP. Based on a game model, this paper studies choice strategy for monopoly manufacturer facing competing downstream ORPs. The results show that competition intensity between ORPs order-fulfilment costs...

Thanks to the credibility and transparency of blockchain technology, small medium enterprises (SMEs) can use self-guarantee obtain loans from financial institutions. Unlike well-developed supply chain finance (SCF) using guarantees provided by a core enterprise, effectiveness SCF with is unclear, especially in multi-sided market setting. The current paper explores this building an analytical model involving four kinds players: platform, customer, bank, multiple transportation service...