Libin Guo

Qufu Normal University · School of Management

For cross-border e-commerce companies with high shipping costs, the existing retailer and the new entrant retailer on the platform are usually concerned with information sharing and free shipping due to the uncertainty of market demand. For this, by establishing a Stackelberg game model between two competing retailers, we analyze the strategy of re...

To address user privacy concerns and improve user trust levels, sharing platforms are commencing to focus on investing in blockchain technology. This study focuses on blockchain technology investment and pricing strategies for two asymmetric sharing platforms. By constructing a Hotelling model, we investigate the investment strategies of the two as...

This paper considers the emergency ordering strategy for the classical economic ordering quantity inventory system with a supply disruption. For situations where the ending time of supply disruption is stochastic and the purchase price increases over time during that period, we develop an emergency ordering optimization model based on maximizing re...

Some capital-constrained and risk-averse retailers may unable to obtain financing from banks due to insufficient collateral and high loan costs, so some retailers tend to use trade credit financing to ease their financial pressure. For the two echelon supply chain composed of a well-funded supplier and a capital-constrained retailer with risk-avers...

Facing with increasing competition, many ports are taking innovative approaches to improve productivity and profits. Among a variety of methods, introducing external terminal operators (ETOs) while the port acts as a landlord to collect “rents” from those operators for conducting terminal activities inside the port is regarded as an effective way a...

Inventory management of deteriorating drugs has attracted considerable attention recently in hospitals. Drugs are a kind of special product. Two characteristics of some drugs are the shorter shelf life and high service level. This causes hospitals a great deal of difficulty in inventory management of perishable drugs. On one hand, hospitals should...

To study port competition and cooperation in bulk and container business, we discuss the port competition, the port cooperation of cost allocation and cost sharing business cooperation. Under Cournot game scheme, we discuss the congestion cost and receive quantities and profits. Our study shows that the port enterprise achieve higher throughput onl...