-sloping demand curve subject to uncertainty. Differentiated from the existing literature,this work focuses on analytically examining … how the uncertainty level embedded in market demand affects the applicability of buyback contracts in supply chain … management. To this end, we seek to characterize the buyback model in terms of only the demand uncertainty level (DUL). With this …

We examine the relation between demand uncertainty and firms' production outsourcing decisions. Contrary to the … traditional view on make-or-buy decisions in management accounting textbooks, we predict that demand uncertainty deters … demand uncertainty is high, these transaction costs can outweigh the supplier's cost advantage, leading to less outsourcing …