We study sourcing behavior in “severe” conditions where supply disruptions are rare, but carry the potential of wiping out several periods' worth of a firm's profit. The trade-off between scale economies from supplier consolidation and risk mitigation from supplier diversification is at the...

Due to the lack of descriptive information about the effectiveness of risk management activities, decision-makers often have to rely on (their own) prior experience with these investments. Thus, we propose a novel, feedback-based approach to examine risk management decisions. We simulate...