Platform Supported Supply Chain Operations in the Blockchain Era: Supply Contracting and Moral Hazards

• Published in: Decision sciences Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 866 - 892
• Main Authors: Cai, Ya‐Jun, Choi, Tsan‐Ming, Zhang, Juzhi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta American Institute for Decision Sciences 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Blockchain; Consumers; Contracts; Coordination; Cryptography; Marginality; Moral dilemmas; Moral hazard; Moral Hazards; Operational hazards; Payments; Platform as Secondary Market; Pricing; Sharing Economy; Social exclusion; Supply; Supply chains; Supply Contract; Technology

ABSTRACT Platform operations are very common in the sharing economy. Nowadays, retailers can sell the end‐of‐season product leftovers to platforms which offer product rental services to the market. Motivated by this observed industrial practice, we build stylized supply chain models to explore the p...