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

Table 2

Notation definition.

Superscripts		Decentralized , centralized , partial buyback contract
Subscripts		Retailer , supplier
Decision variables		Ordering quantity , inventory level
		Sales effort level
Parameters		Critical value of demand
		Channel sales price
		Consumer switching rate
		Cost factor of sales effort
		Free riding coefficient of the supplier
		Elasticity coefficient of market demand response to the retailer’s sales effort
		Production cost
		Initial funds of the retailer
		Financing amount of the retailer
		Residual value
		The supplier wholesale price
		Partial buyback ratio
		Interest rate of trade credit financing
		Profit under the decentralized system
		Profit under the centralized system
		Channel primary demands
		Channel total demand
		Density function of demand
		Cumulative density function of demand