Problem Definition: Manufacturing firms are undergoing re-structuring defined by a collection of adjustments and decisions, which affect the source and destination of manufactured products throughout the firm's global supply chain network. We report on a comprehensive picture of manufacturing...

This paper reports on the results of a global field study conducted in 2014 and 2015 among leading manufacturers from a wide range of industries. It provides insights on managerial practices that concern production sourcing and on the factors that drive such decisions. Exploratory factor...

This paper describes the Blockchain-Enabled Token Trading Game for Supply Chain Management, a web-based supply chain simulation. The game uses blockchain technology’s concepts to create virtual markets for supplier capacity trading among retailers, where participants take on the role of a...

At a time when massive shocks such as the COVID pandemic and semiconductor chip shortages continue to disrupt supply chains around the world, multiple market research and consulting surveys have been conducted to identify supply chain resilience strategies. However, it is difficult for managers...

We study a supply chain distribution system (comprising a supplier and multiple retailers) and investigate experimentally how the trading by retailers of digital claims (tokens) on the supplier's capacity affects supply-demand mismatches. Creating markets for such tokens relies on advances in...