Operations strategy of e-suppliers in a low-end market
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    This paper analyzes the e-suppliers’decisions in low-end markets.Famous e-suppliers such as Taobao,T-mall and Jingdong are used as real cases in the paper.The following main conclusions are derived.Firstly,e-suppliers with little resource prefer to provide low-quality products,and the products’quality and price are lower in the decentralized supply chain than in the centralized supply chain due to double marginalization. Secondly,from the perspective of e-suppliers,both developing centralized supply chain and designing product lines can improve the quality of products and e-suppliers'profits.However,developing centralized supply chain can improve quality of products supplied more efficiently than designing product lines,while designing product lines can improve e-suppliers’profits more efficiently than developing centralized supply chains.Thirdly,with the increasing of consumers mistaking low quality products for high quality ones,the e-suppliers’profit goes down. Under these circumstances,the quality of the high quality products remains the same while the quality of low quality products supplied improves.

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