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Channel conflict intensifies in online market and quality differentiation and is widely used in business practice as an effective way to alleviate such a competition. The authors study a retail platform's sales strategy and interactions with an upstream manufacturer's encroachment strategy in this paper. Unlike most online marketplace and encroachment research, product quality selection is also engaged in the present research to capture the motivation above.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The authors analyze a game-theoretical model that the platform as the first\/second mover participates in strategic decision-making, and then jointly decides the product quality level with manufacturer.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The authors find that encroachment always profits the manufacturer and almost hurts the platform. Interestingly, the first-mover advantage can help the platform guide the manufacturer encroachment and promote a \u201cwin\u2013win\u201d situation when product quality level is relatively slight or obvious. Nevertheless, the second-mover advantage can help the platform alleviate the profit loss caused by encroachment when product quality level is moderate. Furthermore, suffered from encroachment loss, the platform can make a credible threat by sales termination to restrain manufacturer encroachment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper innovatively explores the strategic interaction between manufacturer encroachment and quality differentiation in a platform supply chain, and further analyzes the first-mover advantage in this interaction, which fills the gaps of previous platform research and has great significances to enterprise production and operational decision in business practice.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/imds-07-2022-0403","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,11]],"date-time":"2022-12-11T17:15:57Z","timestamp":1670778957000},"page":"762-793","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Quality differentiation with manufacturer encroachment: is\u00a0first mover always an advantage for retail platform?"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"123","author":[{"given":"Lixi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5267-1728","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tijun","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5527-1711","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lihao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Luyu","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,13]]},"reference":[{"issue":"8","key":"key2023030811112459600_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2259","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.2015.2230","article-title":"Agency selling or reselling? 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