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The presence of service‐level‐dependent demand has been empirically observed in industry and is well‐documented in the literature. How does the implicit contractual existence of such service dependency impact the ordering decisions of upstream suppliers? We conduct three controlled laboratory experiments to study the impact a service‐reward mechanism may have on the upstream ordering decisions of...