Recent developments in the U.S. tariff policies have prompted companies to rethink the need for a diversified global supply chain, particularly by adding an onshore/nearshore production location to the current offshore location. This paper adopts the Newsvendor Network framework and...

R&D consortia, which coordinate R&D activities of their member firms, have been successful in many industries. We study a model with two competing supply chains each consisting of a manufacturer and a supplier. The manufacturers compete in the final product market, and can conduct R&D to reduce...

Problem Definition: Product sharing is disrupting traditional industries, yet manufacturers do not have a clear dominant strategy on how to adapt to this trend. Moreover, a product sharing platform generally sets an entry barrier of product features and not all products are allowed to join it....

This study investigated the current situation of the Philippine economy concerning Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs). Barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Philippines are highly restrictive. The Foreign Investment Act (R.A. 7042, 1991, amended by R.A. 8179, 1996) states that at...

This article deals with the evolution of competitive balance (CB) in the Mexican soccer league from its professionalization to date (1943-2015). We calculate and even adapt several distribution measures used in previous works for European competitions to analyze three theoretical interconnected...