The past decade has witnessed significant movements to push manufacturing back to developed countries. Such movements call for raising import tariffs and increasing consumers' valuation on products made from locally sourced components. These factors are believed to motivate local sourcing for...

In this paper, we consider the impact of competition type (i.e., quantity competition vs. price competition) to study a manufacturer's preference for decision timing when she establishes the direct channel: she can choose to decide the retail price or quantity in the direct channel earlier than,...