When should a manufacturer share truthful manufacturing cost information with a dominant retailer?

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 266-286

  Wang, Jian Cai ^a   Lau, Hon Shiang ^b   Lau, Amy Hing Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cost information; Dominant retailer; Incentive to share information; Purchase contract design; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANUFACTURE; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

A-PRIORI; ASYMMETRIC COST INFORMATION; CHANNEL EFFICIENCIES; DOMINANT RETAILER; INCENTIVE TO SHARE INFORMATION; INFORMATION SHARING; MANUFACTURING COSTS; OPTIMAL PARAMETERS; PURCHASE CONTRACT DESIGN; TWO-PART TARIFFS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 59649096469     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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