Supply chains today routinely use third parties for many strategic activities, such as manufacturing, R&D, or software development. These activities often include relationship-specific investment on the part of the vendor, while final outcomes can be uncertain. Therefore, writing complete...

Supply chains today routinely use third parties for many strategic activities, such as manufacturing, R&D, or software development. These activities often include relationship-specific investment on the part of the vendor, while final outcomes can be uncertain. Therefore, writing complete...

The return on composite investment instruments takes the form of weighted-average, derived from the performance of at least two economic indicators. Three allocation experiments illustrate that prospective investors tend to valuate composites "by-tranche", consistently violating the rational...