Liang Lu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework depicting the issues and strategies of a firm with an innovation (in product or technology or system), to implement the innovation in terms of procurement of feedstock (intermediate inputs), production and processing, and marketing, the innovating firm undertakes strategic design of its supply chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical model to explain food industry firm strategies and then apply the framework to classify firms' practical strategies, focusing on cases in Asia and Latin America.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the evolution of food retail by building a store choice equilibrium model and provide an illustrated discussion, and show under what conditions in equilibrium the different retail types exist and which can become dominant, and what types of goods (dry packaged foods versus perishables) are distributed by what type of retailers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study using Yelp restaurant review data on what affects restaurant customers' sentiment responses to dining out was presented, where a sentiment-analysis method was used to extract and generate sentiment indices from 175,879 text-based Yelp restaurant reviews.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze an innovator's supply chain design problem and show that the innovator determines its overall level of production by taking advantage of its monopoly power, derived from the innovation in the output market, and behaves as a monopsony in buying feedstock from contractors.