Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1143044 Operations Research Letters 2012 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

With strategic customers, we find that a decentralized channel may have higher profit than that of a centralized channel. We show that in addition to the double marginalization effect, both customer and firm discounting and retailer competition are also driving factors of the higher decentralized channel profit.

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