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In this paper, we investigate the issue of how to coordinate a supply chain for a newsvendor-type product where demand is sensitive to both retail price and sales effort. Most related studies have shown that many of the well-known “channel coordination” contracts will fail in such a with-effort supply chain. To remedy this situation, we propose a continuous “volume discount” schedule which not only...