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What factors determine the number of trading partners?

Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2011

The purpose of the paper is to provide a simple model explaining buyer-supplier relationships and show what factors … partners is small. The results may be consistent with the formation of Japanese buyer-supplier relations. … determine the number of trading partners. We show that when the supplier is able to determine the number of trading partners …

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Product innovation by supplying in domestic and foreign markets

Bratti, Massimiliano; Felice, Giulia - 2018

This paper uses European firm-level survey data to provide some robust empirical evidence that suppliers engaged in production to order (PTO) for foreign firms are more likely to introduce product innovations than those engaged in PTO for domestic firms, even when differences in size, R&D and...

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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams

Kräkel, Matthias - 1999

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...

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Sequencing bilateral negotiations with externalities

Münster, Johannes; Reisinger, Markus - 2021

We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based on minutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ratios controlling for risk, and women less often receive rebates on upfront...

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Testing the Multiproduct Hypothesis on Norwegian Aluminium Industry Plants

Larsson, Jan - 2003

Although most production activities involve multiple outputs, econometric models of production or cost functions normally involve only one single homogeneous output. The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that a multiproduct specification is superior to a model with a single homogenous...

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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm – Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries

Viitamo, Esa - 2013

A central aspect of the industrial evolution in the advanced economies is the phenomenon called servitization. In general, the term servitization or product-service transition is used to highlight the change, where the tangible offering of a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible...

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Implications of Value Creation and Capture in Global Value Chains – Lessons from 39 Grassroots Cases

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Rouvinen, Petri - 2013

This report summarizes 39 detailed ETLA case studies of global value chains (GVCs). The findings suggest that the value added in global value chains is less tied to their tangible aspects than what conventional wisdom suggests. Intangible aspects of GVCs tend to be more important, but their poor...

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Blockchain: A Coordination Mechanism

Pietrewicz, Lesław - 2019

Blockchain technology is firmly established in the public awareness as a revolutionary new technology underpinning cryptocurrency. However, its potential applications can be found across sectors and industries in providing a novel way of producing coordination necessary to transact online,...

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Centralized versus decentralized inventory control in supply chains and the bullwhip effect

Qu, Zhan; Raff, Horst - 2017

This paper constructs a model of a supply chain to examine how demand volatility is passed upstream through the chain. In particular, we seek to determine how likely it is that the chain experiences a bullwhip effect, where the variance of the upstream firm's production exceeds the variance of...

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Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect

Qu, Zhan; Raff, Horst - 2017

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