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Strategic perils of outsourcing : sourcing strategy and product positioning
Matsushima, Noriaki; Pan, Cong - 2016
Although outsourcing input production has long been considered as an important approach to help downstream … manufacturers enhance structural efficiency, we provide a theoretical explanation for why outsourcing may negatively affect … sourcing and product positioning strategies. We show that when inputs from outside suppliers are not perfectly compatible with …
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Strategic Perils of Outsourcing : Sourcing Strategy and Product Positioning
Matsushima, Noriaki - 2016
Although outsourcing input production has long been considered as an important approach to help downstream … manufacturers enhance structural efficiency, we provide a theoretical explanation for why outsourcing may negatively affect … sourcing and product positioning strategies. We show that when inputs from outside suppliers are not perfectly compatible with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980594
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Outsourcing and Trade in a Spatial World
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H. - 2005
This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model a la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …
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Outsourcing and Trade in a Spatial World
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H. - 2021
This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model a la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318834
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Farsighted stable sets in hotelling's location games
Shino, Junnosuke - 2008
We apply farsighted stable set to two versions of Hotelling's location games: one with linear market and another with circular market. It is shown that there always exists a farsighted stable set in both games. In particular, the set of all location profiles that yields equal payoff across all...
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Hotelling games with three, four, and more players
Brenner, Steffen - 2001
In this paper the standard Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs is extended to the multi-firm case. The sequential game consists of a location choice stage and a price setting stage. Considering locational equilibria it is shown that neither holds the Principle of Maximum...
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The Max-Min-Min Principle of Product Differentiation
Ansari, Asim; Economides, Nicholas; Steckel, Joel - 2011
We analyze two- and three-dimensional variants of Hotelling's model of differentiated products. In our setup, consumers can place different importance on each product attribute; this is measured by a weight in the disutility of distance in each dimension. Two firms play a two-stage game; they...
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The Max-Min-Min Principle of Product Differentiation
Ansari, Asim; Economides, Nicholas; Steckel, Joel - 2011
We analyze two- and three-dimensional variants of Hotelling's model of differentiated products. In our setup, consumers can place different importance on each product attribute; this is measured by a weight in the disutility of distance in each dimension. Two firms play a two-stage game; they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029642
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Mass Customization in an Endogenous-Timing Game with Vertical Differentiation
Loginova, Oksana; Wang, Xinghe Henry - 2016
We study mass customization in a duopoly game in which the firms' products have different qualities. Whether customization choices are made simultaneously or sequentially is endogenously determined. Specifically, the customization stage of the game involves two periods. Each firm either selects...
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Same same, but different: the heterogeneous nature of subcontractors inside Italian industrial districts
Canello, Jacopo; Pavone, Paolo; Testa, Saverio - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 29 (2017) 7/8, pp. 791-813
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