Should a multinational firm incentivize timely orders from retailing division through intersectoral data transfer?

IF 6 2区 管理学 Q1 OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Baozhuang Niu, Jiayun Liu, Yiyuan Ruan
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In the cross-border e-commerce era, many multinational firms (MNFs) are operating local retailing divisions in emerging markets while also selling through e-tailers. Though e-tailers usually have a demand information advantage that can be known by the MNFs’ manufacturing divisions, interestingly, we note that due to a lack of cyber resilience, data transfer barriers between MNFs’ manufacturing and retailing divisions have widely inhibited intersectoral information transfer. Therefore, risk-averse retailing divisions may postpone orders to wait for the information, exposing them to a second-mover disadvantage. Intuitively, advanced intersectoral data transfer such as AI-enabled cybersecurity cloud platform is capable of facilitating the retailing division’s timely order based on demand information shared by the MNF, we observe that MNF’s tax-planning may be hampered under the Arm’s Length Principle, and tensions between horizontal (i.e., the e-tailer and the MNF’s retailing division) and vertical coordination may be exacerbated. Therefore, we study the MNF’s incentives to apply intersectoral data transfer based on a co-opetition game-theoretic model. We show that the retailing division’s preference varies with the tax disparity and its risk-averse degree. When tax disparity narrows, the sourcing cost-saving effect from postponed ordering allows the division to access demand information without incurring high costs. Establishing intersectoral data transfer is not always optimal for either the MNF or its retailing division. The MNF benefits when the tax disparity is high, whereas the retailing division should balance the information value against sourcing cost saving when deciding order timing.
跨国公司是否应该通过跨部门数据传输来激励零售部门的及时订单?
在跨境电子商务时代,许多跨国公司在新兴市场经营本地零售部门,同时也通过电子零售商进行销售。虽然电子零售商通常具有跨国公司制造部门可以知道的需求信息优势,但有趣的是,我们注意到,由于缺乏网络弹性,跨国公司制造和零售部门之间的数据传输障碍广泛地抑制了部门间的信息传输。因此,规避风险的零售部门可能会推迟订单以等待信息,从而使它们处于后发劣势。直观地说,先进的跨部门数据传输,如人工智能支持的网络安全云平台,能够促进零售部门根据跨国公司共享的需求信息及时下单,我们观察到跨国公司的税收筹划可能会在公平原则下受到阻碍,横向(即电子零售商和跨国公司的零售部门)和纵向协调之间的紧张关系可能会加剧。因此,我们基于合作竞争博弈论模型研究跨国公司应用部门间数据传输的动机。我们发现零售部门的偏好随税收差异和风险厌恶程度而变化。当税收差距缩小时,延迟订购的采购成本节约效应使部门能够在不产生高成本的情况下获取需求信息。建立跨部门数据传输对于跨国公司或其零售部门来说并不总是最佳的。当税收差距较大时,跨国公司受益,而零售部门在决定订单时机时应平衡信息价值和采购成本节约。
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European Journal of Operational Research
European Journal of Operational Research 管理科学-运筹学与管理科学
CiteScore
11.90
自引率
9.40%
发文量
786
审稿时长
8.2 months
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making.
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