Research Article

Inventory and Ordering Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chains Involving Free Riding and Consumer Switching Behavior with Supply Chain Financing

Table 1

List of key-related literature.

Key-related studiesDecision variablesFinancing typeChannel typeContract strategyConsumer switchingFree riding

Hua et al. (2019)Supplier’s interest rate; retailer’s ordering; supplier’s option priceTrade creditOffline channelOption contractNoNo
Kouvelis and Zhao (2012)Retailer’s ordering; credit guarantee coefficientBank financing; trade creditOffline channelManufacturer’s trade credit guaranteeNoNo
Yang and Birge (2018)Retailer’s ordering; supplier’s whole sale priceBank financing; trade creditOffline channelEarly-payment discountNoNo
Dai et al.(2019)Online selling price; wholesale price; offline selling priceNoDual-channelRetailers’ fairness concernsNoNo
Wang et al.(2020)Online selling price; wholesale price; offline selling price; collection priceNoDual-channelNoNoNo
Geng and Mallik (2007)Retailer’s ordering; manufacture’s inventoryNoDual-channelReverse revenue sharingYesNo
Yang et al. (2017)Delivery lead time; retailer’s ordering; manufacture’s inventoryNoDual-channelNoYesNo
Zhou et al. (2018)Retailer’s sales price; manufacture’s sales price; retailer’s service levelNoDual-channelService-cost sharingNoNo
Qin et al. (2020)Retailer’s sales price; manufacture’s sales priceTrade credit (delay payment)Dual-channelTrade credit contractNoNo
Chen and Chen (2019)Brick-and-mortar retailer’s sales price; online retailer’s sales priceNoDual-channelNoNoNo
Yan et al. (2020)Offline price; online priceE-commerce platform financeDual-channelNoNoNo
This studyRetailer’s ordering quantity and sales effort level; supplier’s inventory levelTrade credit (supplier’s financial subsidiary corporation)Dual-channelPartial buyback contractYesYes