Maintaining a healthy buyer–supplier relationship enhances the competence of the firm and
the entire supply chain. This study examines the stability and concentration of both the …

Sustaining collaboration among independent firms is a central problem in supply chain
management. While contractual agreements are commonly used to achieve coordination …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
on the relationship between buyer firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities …

In the low-carbon environment, firms must make pricing and carbon emission decisions. This
study proposes an assembly supply chain model which contains two manufacturers and one …

Although the theoretical inventory literature has studied the impact of transshipments on
inventory, the common assumptions of a small number of products and fixed fill rates in …

We consider a pull assembly supply chain consisting of an assembler and its multiple
upstream component suppliers/subsidiaries, in which the former buys complementary …

Most studies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in a supply chain context
have been conducted from the buyer's perspective. Few have paid attention to how …

We consider a decentralized assembly system in which n upstream firms sell
complementary components to a downstream firm facing a multiplicative stochastic demand …

In this paper, we assume that the supply chain for new energy vehicles (NEVs) consists of a
manufacturer and N parts suppliers, considering that the R&D investment of both …

This paper focuses on the issues of coalition formation and cost allocation in a joint
replenishment system involving a set of independent and freely interacting retailers …