Ying-Ju Chen

TL;DR: In this article, a retailer's incentive for sharing private demand information with a supplier who may encroach the retail channel by imposing a fixed entry cost was investigated, and it was shown that the retailer may prefer to voluntarily share the demand information in anticipation of supplier encroachment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the interaction between the capabilities of introducing the Internet channels, the pricing strategies, and the channel structure, and find that when the Internet shoppers are either highly profitable or fairly unimportant, the manufacturer prefers to facilitate the channel separation either through his own Internet channel or the retailer's.

TL;DR: This study discusses strategic and operational issues arising from five types of online platforms (resource sharing, matching, crowdsourcing, review, and crowdfunding) and presents some research opportunities for operations management scholars to explore.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate a supplier's voluntary disclosure strategy when it can encroach on a retailer's operations by selling directly to final consumers, and show that the supplier's ex ante payoff may become lower with encroachment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the interactions between a manufacturer's information acquisition and quality disclosure strategies in a supply chain setting in which the manufacturer privately knows his product quality but is uncertain about consumer preferences.