Cooperation between multiple news-vendors with transshipments

Slikker, Marco and Fransoo, Jan and Wouters, Marc (2005) Cooperation between multiple news-vendors with transshipments. European Journal of Operational Research, 167 (2). pp. 370-380. ISSN 0377-2217

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Abstract:	We study a situation with n retailers, each of them facing a news-vendor problem, i.e., selling to customers over a finite period of time (product with a short life cycle, such as fashion). Groups of retailers might improve their expected joint profit by coordinating their orders, followed by transshipments after demand realization is known. We analyze these situations by defining a cooperative game, called a general news-vendor game, for such a situation with n retailers. We concentrate on whether it makes sense to cooperate by studying properties of general news-vendor games. Our main result states that general news-vendor games have non-empty cores.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 Elsevier
Faculty:	Management and Governance (SMG)
Research Group:	Finance and Accounting (F&A)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/77639
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.03.014
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