In response to consumer demands, the range of products offered by manufacturersis becoming increasingly complex. One of the ways that companies are dealingwith this challenge is to offer products that can be assembled from acollection of independent components. One of the central difficulties...

This dissertation investigates the impact of various behavioral factors on supply chain management, using a laboratory approach. A series of experiments is designed to challenge the assumptions of several basic theoretical models used in supply chain management that have ignored behavioral...