This paper argues that because of the irreversibility and uncertainty associated with Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) infrastructure projects, their financial evaluation should also routinely include the determination of the value of the option to defer the construction start-up. This ensures that...

We consider a decentralized supply chain in which a downstream manufacturer purchases components from an upstream supplier privileged with private information about supply disruption risk. The supplier's initial reliability, asymmetric to the manufacturer, is either low or high. We examine two...

This paper analyzes how ambiguity affects the tournament outcome and the project selection of a multi-business-unit organization. We consider a tournament model where business unit managers compete against each other for a promotion reward but are ambiguous about how relatively well their skills...

Procurement auctions are widely used to solicit bids for custom items suchas services, construction projects, public infrastructure, and more. Such auctions involve significant risk because the idiosyncratic nature of the purchases means that delivered quality is uncertain. We examine the case...

In today's with the increasing complexity of supply chains, supplier relationships have gained strategic importance for supply chains. Long-term and sustainable supplier relations are important to gain a competitive advantage in the supply chain. It is also important that suppliers are selected...

Using data involving customer-supplier relationships and a large sample of U.S. publicly listed firms, our study documents a negative and statistically significant relationship between economic-policy uncertainty and firms’ customer-base concentration. The negative relation is predominant in...