Innovations in consumer products frequently rely on technological advances across multiple tiers in a supply chain. Considering the consumer market demand and downstream investment conditions as input, we model a game in a two-tier supply chain where downstream firms choose to adopt different...

There are many types of innovation used by companies along different dimensions. Here our focus is on innovation designed to improve the competitive capabilities of efficiency and responsiveness. We ask whether such innovation is uniformly good and find that it is not. We examine the mediating...