报告题目：Manufacturer Strategy on Service Provision in Competitive Channels

报告人：杨晓东 上海对外经贸大学 教授

报告时间：10月31号晚上7：00

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摘要：

A manufacturer commonly distributes through a set of retailers who are authorized to sell its product; demand-enhancing services may also be provided by the manufacturer. These services may be granted to all authorized retailers (uniform service provision) or to a favored few authorized retailers (differential service provision). To determine when a manufacturer does - or does not - bestow equal service levels, we develop a model of one manufacturer selling through two competing retailers. We find manufacturer optimality to entail uniform service at some parametric values, while differential service is optimal at other values. Counterintuitively, with differential service, the recipient of lower service may be better off than it would be with higher service. Equally surprisingly, there are conditions for which the high-service retailer prefers its rival to also receive a high level of service - but only if its rival is sufficiently small. While the three channel members often have different service-provision preferences, there are also parametric values that place them in harmony with either differential or uniform service provision. Retailers sharing the cost of manufacturer-provided service need not lessen firms’ preference confliction over the preferred service provision but can improve channel efficiency when the cost-sharing rate is relatively low. We also investigate the effect of retailer-provided services and the impact of service asymmetry level.

报告人简介：

Dr. Xiaodong Yang (杨晓东) is an Associate Professor in the School of Business at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2007. His primary research interests are in applications of game theory and optimization methods, particularly to the manufacturing and retail industries. Dr. Yang has published his research in scholarly journals such as Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Retailing, Annals of Operations Research, and International Journal of Production Research. Before moving to SUIBE, Dr. Yang has worked as a faculty member in Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Supply Chain Manager at Amazon China.