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Advertising In Asymmetric Competing Supply Chains, Bin Liu, Gangshu (George) Cai, Andy A. Tsay
Advertising In Asymmetric Competing Supply Chains, Bin Liu, Gangshu (George) Cai, Andy A. Tsay
Information Systems and Analytics
Advertising is a crucial tool for demand creation and market expansion. When a manufacturer uses a retailer as a channel for reaching end customers, the advertising strategy takes on an additional dimension: which party will perform the advertising to end customers. Cost sharing (“co-operative advertising”) arrangements proliferate the option by decoupling the execution of the advertising from its funding. We examine the efficacy of cost sharing in a model of two competing manufacturer–retailer supply chains who sell partially substitutable products that may differ in market size. Some counterintuitive findings suggest that the firms performing the advertising would rather bear the …
Risk Profiles In Individual Software Development And Packaged Software Implementation Projects: A Delphi Study At A German-Based Financial Services Company, Stefan Hoermann, Michael Schermann, Marco Aust, Helmut Krcmar
Risk Profiles In Individual Software Development And Packaged Software Implementation Projects: A Delphi Study At A German-Based Financial Services Company, Stefan Hoermann, Michael Schermann, Marco Aust, Helmut Krcmar
Information Systems and Analytics
The aim of this paper is to compare risk profiles of individual software development (ISD) and packaged software implementation (PSI) projects. While researchers have investigated risks in either PSI projects or ISD projects, an integrated perspective on how the risk profiles of these two types of information system (IS) projects differ is missing. To explore these differences, this work conducted a Delphi study at a German-based financial services company. The results suggest that: First, ISD projects seem to be more heterogeneous and face a larger variety of risks than the more straightforward PSI projects. Second, ISD projects seem to be …
The Roles Of Bank And Trade Credits: Theoretical Analysis And Empirical Evidence, Gangshu (George) Cai, Xiangfeng Chen, Zhiguo Xiao
The Roles Of Bank And Trade Credits: Theoretical Analysis And Empirical Evidence, Gangshu (George) Cai, Xiangfeng Chen, Zhiguo Xiao
Information Systems and Analytics
This study investigates the roles of bank and trade credits in a supply chain with a capital-constrained retailer facing demand uncertainty. We evaluate the retailer's optimal order quantity and the creditors' optimal credit limits and interest rates in two scenarios. In the single-credit scenario, we find the retailer prefers trade credit, if the trade credit market is more competitive than the bank credit market; otherwise, the retailer's preference of a specific credit type depends on the risk levels that the retailer would divert trade credit and bank credit to other risky investments. In the dual-credit scenario, if the bank credit …