Does a Feedforward Orientation Provide Competitive Advantages Under Disruptive Conditions? A Review of Control Literature with an Illustrative Case by Rajaram Veliyath

“…The example of Zara, a leader in ‘fast-fashion’ retailing, is presented as an example of how feedforward attributes can be identified, inculcated, and ingrained/retained as organizational attributes that become a part of an organization’s DNA. …”
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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Complex Industrial Systems: Data Modeling by Yu Chengyue, M. Prabhu, Mahendar Goli, Anoop Kumar Sahu

“…Next, each hypothesis is tested by exploring the survey data of a sample of 287 professionals of different BCT user’s companies such as retailing, e-commerce, manufacturing, and construction. …”
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SEE IT, LIKE IT, BUY IT! HEDONIC SHOPPING MOTIVATIONS AND IMPULSE BUYING by Merima Činjarević, Kasim Tatić, Srđan Petrić

“…A focus on adventure, entertainment, excitement and sales may be an effective retailing strategy to stimulate impulse buying behavior. …”
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Influence of Skin Packaging on Raw Beef Quality: A Review by S. Stella, C. Bernardi, E. Tirloni

“…Skin packaging, a relatively new technique derived from vacuum packaging, was developed with the aim of retailing small portions of fresh meat, minced meat, or meat preparations. …”
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SEE IT, LIKE IT, BUY IT! HEDONIC SHOPPING MOTIVATIONS AND IMPULSE BUYING by Merima Činjarević, Kasim Tatić, Srđan Petrić

“…A focus on adventure, entertainment, excitement and sales may be an effective retailing strategy to stimulate impulse buying behavior. …”
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Competition authority in a trap? A few (bitter) words on making public policy by counteracting an unfair use of a contractual advantage in agri-food sector in Poland by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

“… A problem of counteracting bargaining powers of retailers, specially in agri-food sector, has been recently addressed by regulations in a few European countries but so far it has not been subject to academic considerations. …”
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Traditional online and live-streaming dual-channel strategies and pricing policies. by Yue Yu, Songshi Shao, Mingli Yuan, Minghe Sun

“…The two supply chain members can follow two decision sequences where the manufacturer decides the direct online retail price before the retailer does in one, and the manufacturer and the retailer cooperate to decide the retail prices simultaneously in the other. …”
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Tariffs, transportation, and profits in cross-border e-commerce: A dual-channel supply chain decision-making strategy. by Yihang Guo, Xianle Wang, Zhongwei Yang, Kaimin Chen, Wei Weng

“…The increase of unit freight in direct channel is unfavorable to manufacturers and beneficial to retailers; The increase in unit freight rates in retail channels is bad for both manufacturers and retailers. …”
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Horizontally Differentiated Store Brands: Production Outsourcing to National Brand Manufacturers by Shun Shindo, Nobuo Matsubayashi

“…We study a retailer's strategic decision with regard to outsourcing the production of such types of store brands (SBs) to national brand (NB) manufacturers. …”
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A Comparative Study of Marketing Channel Multiagent Stackelberg Model Based on Perfect Rationality and Fairness Preference by Kaihong Wang, Xu Yang, Yiwan Sun, Chuan Ding

“…If the retailers have a sympathetic fairness preference, the manufacturer increases wholesale price, retailers reduce the effort level, and the total channel utility, manufacturer’s utility, and retailers’ utility are less than that of the no fairness preference utility.…”
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Pricing Decisions of a Two-Echelon Supply Chain in Fuzzy Environment by Jie Wei, Guoying Pang, Yongjun Liu, Qian Ma

“…The manufacturer produces a product and sells it to the two retailers, who in turn retail it to end customers. …”
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Informing craft producers in South Africa by Khathutshelo Mercy Makhitha, Melanie Wiese, Gené van Heerden

“… Craft producers struggle to access the retail market because of their inability to communicate effectively. …”
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Coordinating a Three-Level Fresh Agricultural Product Supply Chain considering Option Contract under Spot Price Uncertainty by Changhua Liao, Qihui Lu

“…We consider a three-level fresh agricultural product supply chain consisting of a producer, a supplier, and a retailer, where the producer plants the initial fresh agricultural products with yield uncertainty, the supplier is the leader of the supply chain and the designer of the contracts, and the retailer sells processed products with random demand and spot price. …”
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Hybrid optimization of EDLP and high-low pricing strategies by Hamed Karimi

“…The ability to capture a greater share of the market directly influences a retailer's positioning and competitive edge, making pricing decisions pivotal. …”
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A Consensus Decision-Making Model considering Empathetic Preferences and Power Structure of the Poverty Alleviation E-Commerce Supply Chain by Ruili Shi, Lianming Zhao, Chunxiang Guo, Xin Gu

“…Moreover, the power of retailer is positively correlated with the profits of farmers and the retailer, and negatively correlated with the profits of the e-platform and supply chain. …”
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Optimal Strategy of Supply Chain considering Interruption Insurance by Rong Yu, Zhong Wu, Shaojian Qu

“…Furthermore, the retailer helps the manufacturer to share the premium, and the manufacture shares the proceeds of insurance with the retailer, which can stimulate retailer to order more and increase the profit of manufacturer and retailer.…”
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Pricing and Production Decisions for New and Remanufactured Products by Feng Wei, Yan Zhu, Ting Ma, Qiaoyan Huang, Zengshan Zhen, Jinhui Chen

“…Two different game models are involved while considering reverse channels: (1) In Model P, the manufacturer provides new and remanufactured products to two retailers. New products are sold through an online platform (retailer R1), while remanufactured products are sold in offline physical stores (retailer R2) in a decentralized scenario. (2) In Model C, the manufacturer provides new and remanufactured units to only one retailer (retailer R) that operates both online and offline channels in a centralized scenario. …”
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Recycler Reaction for the Government Behavior in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Distribution Network: Based on the System Dynamics by Xi gang Yuan, Xiao qing Zhang

“…When recyclers respond negatively to government policy making, recycling will reduce the proportion of recyclers. (2) When the recovery percentage of recyclers improves, manufacturers, Retailer 1, and Retailer 2 quantity fluctuations will reduce and the bullwhip effect will diminish. (3) When the proportion of recycled parts recyclers is lowered, manufacturers, Retailer 1, and Retailer 2 inventory fluctuation will increase and the bullwhip effect will be enhanced. (4) When recyclers recycling product delays increased, volatility manufacturers order quantity will rise, but there is little change in the amount of fluctuation of orders of the two retailers. (5) When recycling parts recyclers delay increases, fluctuations in the supplier order quantity will rise, but there is little change in the amount of fluctuation of orders of the two retailers.…”
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Pricing and Remanufacturing Decisions of a Decentralized Fuzzy Supply Chain by Jing Zhao, Weiyu Liu, Jie Wei

“…The manufacturer then sells the new product to two different competitive retailers, respectively, and the two competitive retailers are in charge of deciding the rates of the remanufactured products in their consumers’ demand quantity. …”
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The Impacts of Fairness Concern and Different Business Objectives on the Complexity of Dual-Channel Value Chains by Qiuxiang Li, Yuhao Zhang, Yimin Huang

“…This paper considers a Stackelberg game model in a dual-channel supply chain, which is composed of a manufacturer and a retailer. The manufacturer and retailer consider fairness concern in the market competition, and the manufacturer takes market share and profit as his/her business objectives. …”
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