6 papers
What should the encroaching supplier do?: A Stackelberg Game Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Veeraruna Kavitha
Suppliers often encroach downstream by operating in-house production-units while continuing to supply independent production-units. We study the optimal configuration, including op…
Dual-Channel Closed Loop Supply Chain Competition: A Stackelberg--Nash Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa
In many consumer electronics and appliance markets, manufacturers sell products through competing retailers while simultaneously relying on take-back programs to recover used items…
On Analyzing the Conditions for Stability of Opportunistic Supply Chains Under Network Growth
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Priyank Sinha
Even large firms such as Walmart, Apple, and Coca-Cola face persistent fluctuations in costs, demand, and raw material availability. These are not \textit{rare events} and cannot b…
Price equilibria with positive margins in loyal-strategic markets with discrete prices
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Akansh Verma, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
In competitive supply chains (SCs), pricing decisions are crucial, as they directly impact market share and profitability. Traditional SC models often assume continuous pricing for…
What should the encroaching supplier do in markets with some loyal customers? A Stackelberg Game Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Veeraruna Kavitha
Considering a supply chain with partial vertical integration, we attempt to seek answers to several questions related to the cooperation competition based friction, abundant in suc…
Partition-form Cooperative Games in Two-Echelon Supply Chains
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha
Competition and cooperation are inherent features of any multi-echelon supply chain. The interactions among the agents across the same echelon and that across various echelons infl…