Wagner, Stephan M.; Bode, Christoph; Koziol, Philipp - In: European Journal of Operational Research 199 (2009) 1, pp. 150-161
Common ways to mitigate the detrimental consequences of supplier bankruptcies are to install redundancy and to pursue a multiple-sourcing strategy. This is based on the assumption that the adverse event of one supplier going out of business is largely independent from the default of other...