We consider a firm buying a commodity from the spot market as raw material and selling a final product by submitting bids. Bidding opportunities (i.e., deman...

We study the alliance formation strategy among suppliers in a one downstream firm-n upstream suppliers framework. Each supplier faces an exogenous random sho...

In this paper, we study a decentralized supply chain in which the manufacturer sells a short lifecycle product using wholesale price (only) contracts to a ...