...Xucheng Lu; Xiaohua Li; Yongjiang Guo Purpose This paper aims to determine the service rate and pricing decisions in an experience service where customers first experience the product before making a purchase decision, and to examine how customers’ perception ability influences these decisions...

...Abolfazl Dehghan; Mahboobeh Honarvar Purpose This study aims to address e-commerce challenges for perishable goods, including high return rates and supply chain inefficiency. It investigates optimal decision-making and designs a novel contract to coordinate pricing and service levels between...

...Kamran Kianfar; Mitra Pashootanizadeh Purpose This study aims to investigate the pricing dynamics within a triple-channel supply chain. The publisher can sell printed books (p-books) through bookstores or online direct sales, and electronic books (e-books) are sold directly through the internet...

..., therefore, a customer rebate on one of the products negatively impacts the selling quantity of other. Optimal price, rebate, and quantities are examined and compared to explore the strategic choice for both the rebate offering and non-rebate offering manufacturer. Comparative evaluation is conducted...

... several questions: What will be the optimal manufacturer’s production quantity, retailer’s ordering and pricing policies in the presence of random demand and random yield by applying the downconversion approach? How will the call option contract influence the optimal decisions for the members...

...Ata Allah Taleizadeh; Mahsa Noori-Daryan; Shib Sankar Sana Purpose This paper aims to deal with optimal pricing and production tactics for a bi-echelon green supply chain, including a producer and a vendor in presence of three various scenarios. Demand depends on a price, refund and quality where...

...Syed Asif Raza; Mohd. Nishat Faisal Purpose This paper aims to develop efficient decision support tools for a firm’s environment protection by using greening effort while yet improving profitability by utilizing pricing and inventory decisions with discount consideration. Design/methodology...

...Wangmei Tang; Sheng Ang Purpose The paper aims to study a strategy of advance selling with part payment (ADP) in which pre-ordering consumers are required to pay a portion of advance price first and then pay the rest in the spot period to complete the order. The authors compare the ADP strategy...

...Nita H. Shah; Ajay S. Gor; Chetan A. Jhaveri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study integrated inventory system and pricing and ordering strategy for vendor‐buyer supply chain system. Here, the vendor offers a trade credit to the buyer when the buyer's order quantity exceeds a given pre...

...Jorge Tarziján Purpose This paper aims to examine the equilibrium limit price charged by a producer trying to deter the entry of a firm that can choose one of the two markets of complementary goods. Design/methodology/approach The authors model a dynamic game of incomplete information solved...

...Berlin Wu; Hsuan‐Ku Liu; Ming Long Liu Purpose This paper sets out to consider the problem that the initial value of the American option is less than its fair price; this implies that the replication portfolio does not exist in the market. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops...