We investigate patterns of vertical governance over the product life-cycle as function of the capability regime properties imitability and substitutability. We use a novel neo-Schumpeterian model to study emerging governance patterns. We find that, in the era of incremental change, firms prefer...

We investigate patterns of vertical governance over the product life-cycle as function of the capability regime properties imitability and substitutability. We use a novel neo-Schumpeterian model to study emerging governance patterns. We find that, in the era of incremental change, firms prefer...

We speak of Self-Imposed Time Windows (SITW) when a logistics service provider quotes a delivery time window to his customer. Once this time window is communicated, the company strives to respect it as well as possible. We incorporate these SITW within the framework of the Vehicle Routing...

We study a vehicle routing problem with soft time windows and stochastic travel times. In this problem, we consider stochastic travel times to obtain routes which are both efficient and reliable. In our problem setting, soft time windows allow early and late servicing at customers by incurring...

We consider a single item assembled from two components. One of the components has a long lead time, high holding cost and short review period as compared to the other one. We assume that net stocks are reviewed periodically, customer demand is stochastic and unsatisfied demand is backordered....

In this paper we study a periodic review single item single stage inventory system with stochastic demand. In each time period the system must order none or at least as much as a minimum order quantity Qmin. Since the optimal structure of an ordering policy with a minimum order quantity is...