2020年10月29日下午，现代供应链管理研究院第四十三期学术论坛如期举行。本次讲座依旧采用线上和线下相结合的方式，共近一百六十位师生参与了此次论坛。本次论坛的主讲人是中国科学技术大学管理学院副教授郑权，郑老师进行了题目为“Agency Selling and Retail Pass-Through”的报告。郑老师博士毕业于美国佛罗里达大学，其相关研究成果发表在Marketing Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management等运营管理和市场营销领域知名期刊。
郑老师在分享的过程中，也与现场观众以及线上直播间观众进行了互动，并详细地回答了大家提出的问题。报告结束后，郑老师向大家简要讲述了目前自己做的研究工作，以及自己的研究灵感，这也为大家提供了新的研究思路和方向。未来，我院会继续搭建好学术交流平台，为领域内学者提供更多相互交流的机会，期待大家能在交流中碰撞出新思想，进而推动相关研究的进展。
【摘要】
With the rapid growth of e-commerce, agency selling gains popularity among online retailers (e-tailers) nowadays, in which e-tailers allow suppliers direct access to their customers with a commission. Prior research implicitly abstracts away from the cross-brand pass-through and suggests that a shift from the traditional wholesale selling to agency selling benefits e-tailers but harms suppliers. As an important counterweight to this result, we discover that the e-tailer's choice of selling format is critically moderated by the retail pass-through behavior under wholesale selling as well as competition mode under agency selling. On one hand, agency selling can improve channel efficiency vis-a-vis wholesale selling. On the other hand, the relative intensity of supplier competition between two selling formats is ambiguous. We show that the extant result only holds for a non-negative cross-brand pass-through rate (e.g., linear demands); otherwise (e.g., multiplicative and exponential demands), the opposite can be true. Interestingly, the preference over the selling format can be aligned between the e-tailer and suppliers. Moreover, we find that the e-tailer is more likely to adopt wholesale selling under Cournot competition than under Bertrand competition. Finally, under agency selling with endogenous commission fee, we caution against the seemingly innocuous normalization of production cost. Our findings not only shed light on the theory of agency selling, but also provide a plausible explanation for the observation that wholesale selling continues to prevail in online markets.
【主讲人简介】
郑权，美国佛罗里达大学博士，中国科学技术大学管理学院副教授。主要研究领域为零售和平台运营管理，行为学定价，供应链管理，运营管理和市场营销/信息系统交叉学科研究等。相关研究成果发表在Marketing Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management等运营管理和市场营销领域知名期刊。
撰稿人：田鑫
审核人：张颖
