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Pricing and advertisement in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain

European Journal of Operational Research, 2013
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Jinfeng Yue, Jill Austin, Zhimin Huang, Bintong Chen   +3 more
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Clearance Pricing in Retail Chains

2008
Clearance pricing and end of season inventory management are challenging and important problems in retailing. Sales rates depend upon price, seasonal effects and the remaining assortment of items available to customers. There is little time to react to observed sales, and pricing errors result in either loss of potential revenue or excess inventory to ...
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Organizational Structure and Firm Innovation in a Retail Chain

Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, 1998
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Myong-Hun Chang, Joseph E. Harrington
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Clusterwise pricing in stores of a retail chain

OR Spectrum, 2007
Clusterwise pricing is characterized by prices of each brand of a category being equal in stores belonging to the same cluster. Expected sales necessary to compute profits are estimated using coefficients of a multilayer perceptron which performs better than several parametric models.
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Modelling category demand in retail chains

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2005
This paper is concerned with analysis of retail-chain data on the demand of frequently bought product categories. It is intended to extend the domain of demand analysis to chain-wide data that directly concern retail managers and researchers. The proposed model explores specific structural hypotheses for chain demand and provides a comprehensive ...
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Profit Maximization in Chain Retail Stores

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1978
BECAUSE they handle a large number of products and because of the multiplant nature of their operations, chain retail organizations face special problems in pricing and in profit maximization. The primary purpose of this paper is to offer a model based on the actual policies and practices of such organizations.
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Integrated Retail Chains, Franchising, and Retailer Cooperatives

2005
The paper explores conditions under which retailer ownership of a supply firm is a more efficient form of organization than both supllier ownership of the outlets and franchise contract. Assuming that investments are non contractible , its is shown that retailer ownership tends to be preferable when: a) the retailer's investments have the highest ...
CHILLEMI O, COMINO, Stefano
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Manufacturer–retailer bridge governance in retail supply chains

Journal of Supply Chain Management
AbstractTo address information asymmetry in supply chains, the literature suggests that manufacturers should shift from market governance to hierarchical governance or a combination of both. However, as many manufacturers must continue to rely on market governance, this research introduces a governance strategy, manufacturer–retailer bridge governance (
Zhikun Zhang, Jeff Jianfeng Wang, Chuang Zhang   +2 more
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General Merchandise Retail Chains

2005
Since the 1960s, general merchandise retailers have been the most important retailers, as well as the most innovative. From 1972 until 2000, a GMS chain called Daiei was the largest retailer in Japan by sales. Daiei has since declined, but GMS chains are still at the core of the largest retail groups.
Roy Larke, Michael Causton
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Dual agency in retail chains

Journal of Marketing Channels, 2019
Retail distribution is often organized into chain stores, where geographically dispersed units operate under a common trademark and operational routines.
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