both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …

We study the timing of new technology adoption in markets with input outsourcing, and thus with vertical relations. We … find that technology adoption can take place earlier when firms engage in input outsourcing than when they produce the …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications …