时 间：8月16日（周三）上午10:00
地 点：九里校区零号楼0318室
主 题：Games of Supplier Encroachment Channel Selection and E-tailer's Information Sharing
内 容：We consider an e-tailer's upstream supplier who wants to encroach into retailing to earn additional revenue. The supplier needs to decide whether to enter the retail market by either selling to consumers on the e-tailer's platform by paying commission fees (agency encroachment) or opening an independent online/offline retail store (direct encroachment). The e-tailer has private demand information and decides whether to share it with the supplier. Two leadership scenarios---the supplier-leads (i.e., the supplier selects the channel before the e-tailer decides whether to share information) and the e-tailer-leads (i.e., the supplier selects the channel after the e-tailer decides whether to share information)---are examined. Our main findings are as follows. First, we show that the e-tailer has no incentive to share information under no encroachment and direct encroachment. Interestingly, this result holds in both leadership scenarios. Second, a medium commission rate gives rise to an equilibrium of agency encroachment with information sharing by the e-tailer. This equilibrium is more likely to sustain in the supplier-leads scenario than in the e-tailer-leads scenario. Third, agency encroachment brings the seller the highest sales volume (at retail in the encroaching channel plus on wholesale to the e-tailer) when the two parties compete in quantity while direct encroachment does so for a price competition. Fourth, supplier encroachment always improves consumer surplus, but it is not necessarily welfare-improving. Last, we find that the e-tailer is more willing to share information to induce the supplier to encroach through his agency channel if he has a significant selling cost advantage over the supplier or can endogenously determine the commission rate.
主讲人简介：Yulan Wang is currently a full professor and associated head (research) of the Department of the Logistics and Maritime Studies at Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests lie in operations and supply chain management, socially sustainable operations, behavioral operations, and operations-IS-marketing interface. Her research work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Her research works have received awards such as Second Prize, 2020 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences) and 2020 China Information Economics Outstanding Output Award (Information Management). Dr Wang serves as a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and an associate editor of Decision Sciences and Omega. She is an editorial advisory board member of Transportation Research - Part E. She received her PhD degree in Business Administration from Duke University, and BS and MS degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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