Fuqiang Zhang

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the impact of information sharing on a retail platform with competing sellers and identify a simple pricing mechanism that can achieve the optimal information-sharing outcome, and they show that when the sellers differ in their market power, the platform would prefer to share information truthfully with those sellers who have a lower impact on others.

TL;DR: It is found that under the proposed heuristic, the value of using sophisticated multistep upgrading can be quite significant; however, using simple approximations for the initial capacity leads to negligible profit loss, which suggests that the firm’s profit is not sensitive to theInitial capacity decision if the optimal upgrading policy is used.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the evolution of OM research from 1997 to 2018 by using machine learning tools to analyze all OM papers published in five journals (JOM, MS, M&SOM, POM, and OR), and find that the number of information/financial flow focused OM research papers has increased steadily over the years.

TL;DR: In this paper, a buyer's procurement strategies in a two-stage supply chain with price-sensitive demand is studied. And the authors show that a fixed service-level contract, which consists of a target service level and a price-quantity menu, yields nearly optimal profit for the buyer.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a fixed service-level contract, which consists of a target service level and a price-quantity menu, yields nearly optimal profit for the buyer.