We analyze the competitive capacity investment timing decisions of both established firms and start-ups entering new … markets, which have a high degree of demand uncertainty. Firms may invest in capacity early (when uncertainty is high) or late … capacity level to maximize expected profits, whereas start-ups make those choices to maximize the probability of survival. When …

analysis into its medium-term capacity planning procedures and the effect of information aggregation on learning curve capacity … of medium-term capacity projections from the incorporation of learning curve analysis in firms with high rates of …

This article studies optimal investment in flexible manufacturing capacity as a function of product prices (margins …

competitive stochastic investment game with recourse. The manufacturer and subcontractor decide separately on their capacity … state-dependent contracts can eliminate all decentralization costs and coordinate capacity investmentdecisions. The …

capacity. …

manufactured. The production volumes in the first stage are bounded by given capacity limits. We develop an accurate lower bound … facilities; (ii) the trade-off between capacity and inventory investments; and (iii) the trade-off between capacity investments …

hedge and suggest rules of thumb for strategic placement of safety capacity and inventory in networks: (1) Risk pooling … suggests rebalancing capacity toward inexpensive resources that serve lower-profit variance markets. This highlights the role … suggests rebalancing capacity toward substitutable flexible but away from shared capacity when markets differ in profitability …

-to-business (B2B) markets. Such options, on both capacity and output, play an important role in integrating long- and short …

on sales, profits, and capacity decisions, including the degree of capacity imbalance. We find that the benefit from … increased demand aggregation is closely linked to the degree of capacity imbalance: profit gains from delayed allocation tend to … be higher in systems in which the optimal capacity portfolio is highly unbalanced when the allocation decision is made …