Complementary Product Pricing and Service Cooperation Strategy in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain by Minglun Ren, Jiqiong Liu, Shuai Feng, Aifeng Yang

“…One manufacturer sells products simultaneously through its own online channel and the traditional retailer, and the manufacturer delivers the product’s service to the retailer in its network direct sales channel by cooperating with the retailer in the form of service cost sharing. …”
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Hybrid Transshipment Policy and Ordering Model for Multiple Periods with Customer Switching Behaviour by Qingren He, Ranran Shi, Guofeng Tang

“…Based on this framework, we demonstrate that the retailer can obtain more profits with a hybrid transshipment than without one. …”
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Green Supply Chain Decisions and Revenue-Sharing Contracts under Manufacturers’ Overconfidence by Hui Zhou, Lu Liu, Weifan Jiang, Shengsheng Li

“…Retailers benefit from collaboration, and overconfident manufacturers assume that retailers can make more profit through revenue sharing, but this model does not exist.…”
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Optimal Operation and Financing Decisions in Green Supply Chain with a Capital-Constrained Manufacturer by Lijuan Xia, Lixin Qiao, Xiaochen Ma, Yuanze Sun, Yongli Li

“…Furthermore, financing might be detrimental to the manufacturer but always beneficial to the retailer. Especially, under trade credit financing channel, the profit improvement of the retailer is higher than the manufacturer in the same financing channel, which suggests that the retailer has strong internal motivation to cooperate with the manufacturer from the perspective of financing.…”
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A PLS-SEM Based Approach: Analyzing Generation Z Purchase Intention Through Facebook’s Big Data by Vikas Kumar, Preeti, Shaiku Shahida Saheb, Sunil Kumari, Kanishka Pathak, Jai Kishan Chandel, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…The objective of this paper is to provide a better rendition of Generation Z purchase intentions of retail products through Facebook. The study gyrated around the favorable attitude formation of Generation Z translating into intentions to purchase retail products through Facebook. …”
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Pricing Decision under Dual-Channel Structure considering Fairness and Free-Riding Behavior by Yongmei Liu, Chunjie Ding, Chen Fan, Xiaohong Chen

“…Then the influences of fair factor and free-riding behavior on manufacturer and retailer pricing and performance are discussed. Finally, we propose some numerical analysis to provide some valuable recommendations for manufacturer and retailer improving channel management performance.…”
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Manufacturer’s Green Financing and CER Decisions under the Carbon Tax Policy and Capital Constraints by Yunfeng Zhang, Tingting Song, Jingting Ma, Ying Qin

“…This study constructs a two-echelon low-carbon supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer and a retailer. The manufacturer’s initial capital is zero. …”
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A Building-Material Supply Chain Sustainable Operations under Fairness Concerns and Reference Price Benefits by Huimin Xiao, Youlei Xu, Shiwei Li

“…This paper incorporates fairness concerns and consumer reference price effects into a two-echelon building-material closed-loop supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer. By establishing four differential game models, we investigate the sustainable operations and cooperation of this supply chain. …”
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Grocery consumer relational perceptions in green consumption context by Marta Fernandes Gonçalves, João Menezes, Catarina Marques

“…Today consumers are increasingly considering green consumption, which has led to a situation where retailers expend substantial resources in response to this challenge. …”
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Coordination of Supply Chains with Competing Manufacturers considering Fairness Concerns by Jie Jian, Yuyao Zhang, Lin Jiang, Jiafu Su

“…The results show that there is a revenue-sharing contract parameter in both the peer-induced and distributional fairness concerns of manufacturers, which can effectively realize Pareto improvements in a supply chain. Meanwhile, the retail and wholesale prices both decreased with the increase in the revenue-sharing ratio between retailers and manufacturers, and the profits of retailers decreased accordingly, but the overall utility of manufacturers and supply chains improved markedly. …”
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Melons: Safe Handling Practices for Consumers by Amy Simonne

“…Adapted from the FDA Manual Retail Food Safety Produce Safety at Retail: Safe Handling Practices for Melons. …”
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Melons: Safe Handling Practices for Consumers by Amy Simonne

“…Adapted from the FDA Manual Retail Food Safety Produce Safety at Retail: Safe Handling Practices for Melons. …”
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Optimal Decisions for Carbon Emission Reduction through Technological Innovation in a Hybrid-Channel Supply Chain with Consumers’ Channel Preferences by Chong Xin, Yunzhu Zhou, Xiaochen Zhu, Lin Li, Xin Chen

“…In the first, the manufacturer sells low-carbon products through a traditional retailer who has a physical store, while in the second the manufacturer opens an online direct channel to compete with the traditional retailer. …”
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Optimal Decisions for a Fuzzy Two-Echelon Supply Chain by Qingfeng Song, Kai Shi, Sheng Lin, Guangping Xu

“…The results illustrate that no matter what decision case is, the optimal retail and wholesale prices in the case of considering selling effort are, respectively, larger than those of no selling effort; the optimal profits of the manufacturer, the retailer, and the whole supply chain system in the case of considering selling effort are, respectively, larger than those of no selling effort except for the profit of the retailer in the case that the manufacturer plays the leader’s role. …”
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Blockchain technology adoption strategies for the shipping costs bearer in the fresh product supply chain by Weisi Zhang, Lin Wu, Lulu Ji

“…This study constructs a fresh supply chain composed of supplier, retailer, and third-party cold chain logistics company, where shipping costs are borne by either the supplier or the retailer. …”
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Over-the-counter drug consumption and related factors, evidence from the European Health Interview Survey by Aida Isabel Tavares

“…Finally, countries with similar OTC retail market regulations are considered to control for heterogeneity in this regard.Results The main findings show that OTC market deregulation is not strictly related to the share of OTC consumption. …”
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Dual-Channel Decisions under Blockchain and Returns by Guangdong Liu, Ziyang Li, Jinggui Chen

“…The major results of our study show that when blockchain technology is not used, the costs of return hassles in one channel can have an impact on other channels, and the adoption of online returns is advantageous to both consumers and the retailer. When blockchain technology is used, the manufacturer offers the retailer a lower wholesale price as a subsidy for the unit validation fee, which is always advantageous to the retailer. …”
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The Complex Dynamics of Bertrand-Stackelberg Pricing Models in a Risk-Averse Supply Chain by Junhai Ma, Qiuxiang Li

“…We construct dynamic Bertrand-Stackelberg pricing models including two manufacturers and a common retailer in a risk-averse supply chain with the uncertain demand. …”
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Joint Quality Investment and Inventory Decisions for Perishable Items with Reference Quality Effect under the O2O Environment by Yuan Li, Yumei Hou

“…The optimal control model is established to maximize the retailer’s total profit by making a joint quality and inventory strategy. …”
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System Dynamics Modelling of Remanufacturing and Recycling Mode Based on Closed-Loop Across-Chain Competition by Shidi Miao, Deyun Chen, Tengfei Wang

“…Moreover, the improvement of recycling mechanism of the retailers can enlarge the share of supply chain market. …”
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