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Sourcing Co-Created Products : Should Your Suppliers Collaborate?
Cohen-Vernik, Dinah - 2017
firm should source from the upstream market, that is single-source versus multi-source, in a situation where the products …'s decision to establish a collaborative environment for its suppliers. Outright purchase from the upstream market serves as a … additively separable cost function, we find that the downstream firm's optimal strategy is multi-source co-creation without …
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Benefits of Sourcing Alternative Inputs of Manufacturers for Suppliers
Gao, Yuetao; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Shen, Bo - 2021
A downstream manufacturer can purchase high-quality inputs from its upstream raw-material supplier to produce high-quality products. The manufacturer may also have the option to source alternative cheaper low-quality inputs to partially replace the inputs from the original supplier to produce...
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2015
Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers : a comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016
Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa. This paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion of supermarkets and the impact this has had on...
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains : implications on suppliers in Botswana and South Africa
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2017
This paper explores the effect of the spread of supermarkets on the participation of suppliers in supermarket value chains in Botswana and South Africa. Using secondary data and in-depth interviews with key players in the value chain, the paper evaluates the buyer power of supermarkets evidenced...
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Legal unbundling can be a golden mean between vertical integration and separation
Höffler, Felix (contributor); Kranz, Sebastian (contributor) - 2007
under quite general conditions legal unbundling yields (weakly) higher quantities in the downstream market than vertical …
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Bargaining power in manufacturer-retailer relationships
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Klein, Gordon J.; … - 2013
Research on bargaining power in vertical relationships is scarce. It remains particularly unclear which factors drive bargaining power between the two negotiating parties in a vertical structure. We use a demand model where the consumer demand determines the total pie of industry profits....
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Information Liability : A Capacitated Supplier Encroaches on a Less Informed Buyer
Elahi, Hamid - 2019
the order quantity and the supplier decides whether or not to encroach on the end-customer market. We find that the … encroach on the end-customer market when it has more capacity. Lastly, we find that both firms can simultaneously benefit from …
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Buying Products from Whom You Know : Personal Connections and Information Asymmetry in Supply Chain Relationships
Chen, Ting - 2020
This study investigates the role pre-existing personal connections play in a crucial element of the supply chain – supplier selection. We find that the likelihood that a potential supplier (hereafter, a vendor) is selected to be an actual supplier (hereafter, supplier) increases when personal...
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Multilayer of Suppliers' Fixed Costs and the Model of Vertical Restraints
Das, Dipankar - 2018
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