Relaxing channel separation: Integrating a virtual store into the supply chain via transshipments

Supply chain in tourism destinations: the case of Levi Resort in Finnish Lapland

“…Hertz, 2001;Lo and Yeung, 2004;Rainbird, 2004;Straub et al, 2004;Seifert et al, 2006). All of them consider inter-fi rm co-operation in one way or another.…”

Strategic supply chain choices for multi-channel Internet retailers

“…Blockbuster online competes on product variety, carrying an order of magnitude more titles than a physical store. Seifert et al (2006) ''proved'' that an integrated strategy is superior to a dedicated system strategy-but that work implicitly assumed both channels had the same product assortment. Because the two channels of blockbuster compete on different customer priorities, the physical stores and the online operation have ''dedicated systems.''…”

Retail service for mixed retail and E-tail channels

“…As in Seifert et al (2006), we assume the demands of the retail store and online store are independent, which makes our analysis somewhat tractable. We now discuss how the firm changes his service effort, and what about the optimal expected profit, if the market uncertainty for the e-tail channel remains the same but the market uncertainty x 2 of the retail channel becomes stochastically larger with fixed variance?…”

“…They constructed a price-setting game between a manufacturer and its independent retailer. Seifert et al (2006) analyzed how to integrate an online channel into an established chain by allowing for the transshipment from retail store to online store. Yao and Liu (2005) studied competitive pricing of mixed retail and e-tail distribution channels for the Bertrand and the Stackelberg models, they proposed an appropriate strategy for the decision maker to adopt when adding an e-tail channel.…”