[enter Abstract Body]Previous research in management accounting and economics has noted the potential for complementarities between the firm’s performance measurement system and its other organizational design choices. We add to this literature by studying how the informativeness and incentive...

We consider a supply chain with one manufacturer who assembles an end-product consisting of two components (A and B), where each component is purchased from multiple outside suppliers. The manufacturer's decision as to the contract to offer each supplier is complicated by two factors: (1) each...

We consider a supply chain with one manufacturer who assembles an end-product using multiple outsourced parts. The end-product exhibits the “weakest-link” property, such that if any of its component parts fails, the end-product fails. The supplier of each component part can improve the...