Purpose - logistics creates a strategic effect by playing a facilitating role in international trade, which has a significant impact on the economic performance of countries. Logistics performance and corruption play an influential role in determining the trade efficiency levels of developing...

We consider a two-stage serial supply chain with capacity limits, where each installation is operated by managers attempting to minimize their own costs. A multiple-period model is necessitated by the multiple stages, capacity limits, stochastic demand, and the explicit consideration of...

Cyclicality is a well-known and accepted fact of life in market-driven economies. Less well known or understood, however, is the phenomenon of amplification as one looks “upstream” in the industrial supply chain. We examine the amplification phenomenon and its implications through the lens...

Motivated by supply competitions in the service sector, we consider a version of the Bertrand-Edgeworth game where capacitated suppliers compete in prices to serve a deterministic demand and a price cap is imposed exogenously. We characterize the equilibrium structure for games with multiple...

We show that in supply chains where retailer effort can substantially affect sales, longer lead times can result in higher sales for the manufacturer. Hence, manufacturers might not want to reduce lead times even if it was free or inexpensive to do so. Using a one-period model where retailer...

Purpose: This paper studies the impact of ICT on the productivity of the activities of the firm in the supply chain focusing on the actual use of these technologies instead of on the mere ICT investment. Approach: Approaching the research goal with the theoretical framework of the Theory of the...

We analyze an equilibrium choice of a product quality within a supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a supplier. A quality of an intermediate good is private information of the supplier and determines the quality of a final product. The manufacturer holds all bargaining power and...

Currently volatility is inherent a supply chain. A business entity within the supply chain faces with demand fluctuations and many other problem situations that cause disruptions. Despite this supply chain should deliver goods or services at acceptable predefined levels of customer value, not...

When a supplier serves multiple buyers, the buyers often reserve the supplier's capacity in advance to secure the supply to fulfill their demand. In this paper, we analyze two common types of capacity reservation: exclusive and first-priority reservations. Both reservations give a buyer first...

This paper analyses whether indirect effects of internationalisation occur through the domestic supply chain. We investigate productivity effects for a given firm resulting from the import or export of intermediate inputs by domestic upstream and downstream industries. Using a rich sample of...