...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...

... Increasing knowledge about the operation of the bike-sharing system has a positive effect on society because more cities around the world could consider implementing these systems as a public transportation mode. Furthermore, delivering suggestions on how to increase the user service level could incentivize...

.... The study identifies some relative benefits, in terms of expected profit, of the process flexible plant over the dedicated ones. Furthermore, the advantage appears to be contingent upon the decision on the preset service level. Design/methodology/approach Using the sample-based optimization procedure...