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Li Feng

Work place: School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R.China

E-mail: lifeng86@mail.ustc.edu.cn

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Biography

Feng Li was born in Wuxi City in China on 23 July,  1986, is a Ph.D candidate in management science and  engineering at University of Science and Technology of  China(USTC, Hefei, China) now, and got his bachelor’s  degree of business administration at Nanjing University  of Aeronautics and Astronautics(NUAA, Nanjing, China)  in 2008.  He is working and studying as a research intern in the  office of development and planning at USTC since 2008.  He has published three Chinese papers on China Higher  Education Research and Studies in Science of Science.  His current research interests are general strategy and  management science. 

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Who is the Free Rider in the Drop-Shipping Supply Chain?

By Li Feng Tu Yijian Guo Xiaolong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2011.03.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2011

In Drop-shipping supply chain, retailers get the customer orders and manufacturers carry out the orders. Are there any free riders while obtaining the customer order? If any, who could be the free riders? By comparing the decentralized and centralized decision making, we find that both manufacturers and retailers are possible to behave as free riders. Also, we study the contract designs to coordinate manufacturers and retailers in Drop-shipping supply chain, and we find that a combination of quantity discount and delivery reliability compensation mechanism as to guarantee manufacturers a safe delivery can achieve the bi-direction excitation, and finally the coordination of the supply chain.

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