Modern traceability technologies promise to improve supply chain management by simplifying recalls, increasing visibility, or verifying sustainable supplier practices. Initiatives developing traceability technologies — and who hope to make their technologies the industry standard — must...

We study production networks of automotive assembly plants to shed new light on the impact of flexibility on plant productivity. We observe that the contemporary manufacturing networks of automotive assembly plants of three US companies (Chrysler, Ford and General Motors) have become less...

Antitrust regulations are meant to promote fair competition in the market, but balancing administrative and legal costs with enforcement can be difficult when multi-layered supply chains are involved. The canonical example of this challenge is the landmark Illinois Brick ruling, which limits...

By using user generated content (UGC), specifically customer ratings, this paper disentangles the role of different dimensions of product quality in influencing consumer choice. We use a structural estimation model with endogenous prices and heterogeneous customer preferences to show that...