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What factors determine the number of trading partners?
Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2011
The purpose of the paper is to provide a simple model explaining buyer-supplier relationships and show what factors … determine the number of trading partners. We show that when the supplier is able to determine the number of trading partners …, the optimal number is small if the supplier's bargaining power with them is weak, the economy of scope in the supplier …
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Corporate resilience and response during COVID-19
Cheema-Fox, Alex; LaPerla, Bridget R.; Serafeim, George; … - 2020 - This draft: June 23rd, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19 induced market crash, investors...
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Pricing and Supply Chain Transparency to Conscientious Consumers
Bertini, Marco; Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit. Surprisingly, we find that the firm may be...
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Pricing and supply chain transparency to conscientious consumers
Bertini, Marco; Bühler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2020
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Pricing and supply chain transparency to conscientious consumers
Bertini, Marco; Bühler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit. Surprisingly, we find that the firm may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310529
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International managerial skill and big Colombian exporting firms' performance, 2006-2014
Merchan Alvarez, Federico Alberto - 2023
This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager's organizational capital contribution to improve...
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Digital divide decoded: Can e-commerce and remote workforces enhance enterprise resilience in the COVID-19 era?
Park, Donghyun - 2022
We examine the adverse impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the performance of more than 12,000 firms in 32 countries along several dimensions; namely, revenue, production, and labor outcomes. We find that the majority of firms experienced permanent or temporary closures, decreased sales...
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Management practices drive productivity: But not without human capital
Ohlsbom, Roope - 2021
Data collected with the Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) is used to study the association between management practices and firm productivity, and to examine whether human capital intensity acts as a moderator variable for this relationship. A comparison of how well...
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The effect of staged projekt management on product innovation: Evidence from a firm survey
Haneda, Shoko; Kurihara, Koki; Ono, Arito - 2023
This study examines whether staged project management is beneficial or harmful for making product innovations. Using a unique firm urvey for Japan, we find that firms that employed staged project management had a higher likelihood of introducing new products to the market. Additional estimations...
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Using recurrent neural networks for the performance analysis and optimization of stochastic milkrun-supplied flow lines
Südbeck, Insa; Mindlina, Julia; Schnabel, André; … - 2022
Long-term throughput, as a key performance indicator of a stochastic flow line, is affected by numerous parameters describing the features of the flow line, such as processing time and buffer size. Fast and accurate evaluation methods for a given set of values for those parameters are a...
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