Nagarajan, Mahesh; Bassok, Yehuda - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 8, pp. 1482-1496
We examine a decentralized supply chain in which a single assembler buys complementary components from n suppliers and assembles the final product in anticipation of demand. Players take actions in the following sequence. First (stage 1), the suppliers form coalitions among themselves. Second...