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Sourcing Co-Created Products : Should Your Suppliers Collaborate?

Cohen-Vernik, Dinah - 2017

firm should source from the upstream market, that is single-source versus multi-source, in a situation where the products …'s decision to establish a collaborative environment for its suppliers. Outright purchase from the upstream market serves as a … additively separable cost function, we find that the downstream firm's optimal strategy is multi-source co-creation without …

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Chapter 33 The Arms Industry, Procurement and Industrial Policies

Hartley, Keith - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1139-1176). 2007

and learning. A structure-conduct-performance approach is applied. Market conduct is assessed including defense R&D and … the role of the military–industrial–political complex. Market performance is reviewed by assessing contract performance …

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Buyer's Bankruptcy Risk, Sourcing Strategy, and Firm Value : Evidence from the Supplier Protection Act

Aral, Karca; Giambona, Erasmo; Wang, Ye - 2022

What should a distressed buyer’s sourcing strategy be? We find that this depends on the dynamics in a potential in …

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Project modifications and bidding in highway procurement auctions

De Silva, Dakshina G.; Dunne, Timothy; Kosmopoulou, Georgia - 2015

This paper examines bidding behavior in a setting where post-bid-letting project modifications occur. These modifications change both the costs and payouts to the winning contractor, making the contract incomplete. Recent empirical research shows that bidders incorporate the likelihood of such...

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A note on acquisition of complements in a vertically differentiated market

Tarola, Ornella; Vergari, Cecilia - 2012

some circumstances, anti-competitive consequences can be observed under acquisition. …

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Procurement Auctions for Differentiated Goods

Swarthout, J. Todd - 2011

under compensates for quality advantages, creating a market distortion in which the buyer captures surplus at the expense of …

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The Price Effects of Using Firewalls as an Antitrust Remedy

Thomas, Charles J. - 2010

Antitrust authorities have imposed firewalls between the previously separate divisions of newly vertically integrated firms in several industries, to address concerns that access to horizontal rivals' proprietary information may reduce competition. This paper evaluates a specific antitrust...

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Benefits of Sourcing Alternative Inputs of Manufacturers for Suppliers

Gao, Yuetao; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Shen, Bo - 2021

A downstream manufacturer can purchase high-quality inputs from its upstream raw-material supplier to produce high-quality products. The manufacturer may also have the option to source alternative cheaper low-quality inputs to partially replace the inputs from the original supplier to produce...

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Vertical Mergers in Procurement Markets

Thomas, Charles J. - 2011

This paper uses computational methods that reveal ambiguous strategic effects of vertical mergers in a duopoly setting featuring incomplete information about sellers' costs, and differences in sellers' productive capabilities. First, vertical mergers can be jointly unprofitable. Second, the...

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Corporate IT Standardization : Product Compatibility, Exclusive Purchase Commitment and Competition Effects

Li, Xinxin; Chen, Yuxin - 2013

When companies purchase IT products for their employees, departments or divisions, whether to standardize on one product or to allow the users to make their own choices is an important decision for IT managers to make. By consolidating demand and committing to buy from a single seller,...

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