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Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management

  • First handbook-sized collection of research on information sharing in supply chains
  • Editors and contributors are leaders in the field
  • Presents the various approaches, analyses, and key implications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management (SSSCM, volume 5)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Value of Information Sharing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Modeling and Measuring the Bullwhip Effect

      • Li Chen, Hau L. Lee
      Pages 3-25
    3. Empirical Studies in Information Sharing

      • Z. Justin Ren
      Pages 27-38
    4. Collaborative Forecasting in Retail Supply Chains

      • Mümin KurtuluÅŸ
      Pages 39-61
  3. Contracting and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Project Contracting Strategies for Managing Team Dynamics

      • George Georgiadis, Christopher S. Tang
      Pages 89-105
    3. Time-Related Incentive Contracts for Managing Projects with Uncertain Completion Time

      • Christopher S. Tang, Kairen Zhang, Sean X. Zhou
      Pages 107-122
    4. Contracting for New Product Development

      • Sameer Hasija, Shantanu Bhattacharya
      Pages 123-144
    5. Supply Disruptions and Procurement Contracting

      • Volodymyr Babich, Zhibin (Ben) Yang
      Pages 145-170
    6. Contracting for Information Acquisition

      • Guoming Lai, Wenqiang Xiao
      Pages 171-186
  4. Information Signaling and Cheap Talk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Supply Chain Information Signaling and Capital Market

      • Guoming Lai, Wenqiang Xiao
      Pages 215-233
  5. Incentives for Information Sharing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
    2. Establishing Trust and Trustworthiness for Supply Chain Information Sharing

      • Özalp Özer, Yanchong Zheng
      Pages 287-312
    3. Information Leakage in Supply Chains

      • Guangwen Kong, Sampath Rajagopalan, Hao Zhang
      Pages 313-341

About this book

Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain. Despite the benefits, many firms are reluctant to share information with their supply chain partners due to an unequal distribution of risks, costs, and benefits among the partners. Thus, incentive mechanisms must be in place to induce communication, cooperation, and collaboration among all members of a supply chain. 

The issue of Information exchange/sharing has been examined by various researchers over the last 15-20 years. However, there is no research book that compiles various approaches, analyses, key implications, as well as future development of this area. This book will serve as a handbook for researchers who are interested in learning the state of the art of the line of research in this area and explore open research topics in this area. 

Contributors, all leading researchers, have committed to delivering 18 chapters, broken into four distinct sections covering the Value of Information Sharing, Contracting and Information, Information Signaling, and Incentives for Information Sharing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Albert Y. Ha

  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Christopher S. Tang

About the editors

Albert Y. Ha is Wei Lun Foundation Professor of Business and Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  He has published in major academic journals in the areas of supply chain management, economics of queuing systems and production and inventory control. He currently serves as a Department Editor of Production and Operations Management as well as an Associate Editor of Management Science, Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

He received his BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Hong Kong, MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and PhD in Business from Stanford University.


Christopher Tang is UCLA Distinguished Professor and the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School.  He is a renowned scholar in supply chain managementwho has published 5 books and over 100 research articles.  Also, he is the recipient of numerous research awards including lifetime fellow awards of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and the Society of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM). 

After completing his Presidency of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in 2014, he now serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) journal.  Chris received his BSc (First Class Hons.) from King’s College (London), M.A., MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management

  • Editors: Albert Y. Ha, Christopher S. Tang

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32441-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32439-5Published: 12 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81285-4Published: 22 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32441-8Published: 03 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2365-6395

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-6409

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 390

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Procurement

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