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| Literature | Demand (or other) depends on | Main decision variable | Contract types (coordination or not) |
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| Cachon and Lariviere [33] | (Inverse demand) quantity | Price, order quantity | Revenue-sharing (Y), buyback (Y), quantity flexibility (Y), sales rebate (Y), etc. |
| Xiao et al. [34] | Price, product quality, service quality | Price, service quality | Revenue-sharing (Y) |
| Kong et al. [35] | (Inverse demand) quantity | Price, order quantity, leakage decision | Revenue-sharing (Y) |
| Bernstein and Federgruen [36] | Price | Price, order quantity | Price discount (Y) |
| Cai et al. [37] | Price | Price | Price discount (Y) |
| Supply chain with costly effort |
| Cachon and Lariviere [33] | (Inverse demand) quantity, retailer effort | Retail effort, order quantity | Revenue-sharing (N), quantity discount with revenue-sharing (Y) |
| Bhaskaran and Krishnan [38] | (Quality depends on) innovation effort of focal and partner firms | Innovation level of focal firm and partner firm | Revenue-sharing (N), investment sharing (N), innovation sharing (N) |
| Krishnan et al. [39] | Promotional effort | Price, order quantity, retailer promotional effort | Buyback (N), buyback with three mechanisms (Y) |
| Lambertini [40] | Price, quality | Price, R&D effort of the upstream and downstream | Two-part tariff (N), control-linear two-part tariff (Y), state-linear two-part tariff (Y) |
| Cai et al. [9] | Price, freshness | Price, order quantity, distributor’s fresh-keeping effort | Price discount sharing with compensation (Y) |
| Gu et al. [41] | Customer returns | Price, order quantity, fresh-keeping effort | Buyback (Y), revenue-sharing (N), revenue- and cost-sharing (Y) |
| This paper | Price, SC quality visibility | Price, quality visibility (effort) of the upstream and downstream | Revenue-sharing (N), price discount with effort alignment (Y), with cost-sharing (Y) |
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