Abstract Pioneered by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz in the 1950s, the mean-variance
(MV) formulation is a fundamental theory for risk management in finance. Over the past …

Over the past decades, we have witnessed the rapid development of giant fashion brands in
the retail market which inspires a lot of operational research (OR) studies in fashion retail …

In the digital platform era, omni-channel marketing is widely adopted. The efficiency of
marketing investment will affect the revenues and profits of the firms. On one hand, the firms …

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 …

Supply Chain Risk Management has become a key concern for organizations, which is even
further emphasized by the current economic and financial crisis. Against this background …

We consider a supply chain in which a producer supplies a fresh product, through a third-
party logistics (3PL) provider, to a distant market where a distributor purchases and sells it to …

While carbon tax policies are widely implemented to reduce emissions, they also increase
costs, which has caused controversy in recent years. This new issue motivates us to …

We analytically investigate the optimal pricing decisions in a mass customization (MC)
supply chain with one risk averse manufacturer and two risk averse competing retailers. The …

The year 2020 can be earmarked as the year of global supply chain disruption owing to the
outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). It is however not only because of the pandemic that …

This paper investigates a supply chain where the retailer is capital-constrained and the
supplier is risk-averse. The supplier's risk-averse behavior is gauged by Conditional Value …