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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425581
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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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Pricing and supply chain transparency to conscientious consumers
Bertini, Marco; Bühler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426536
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Scheduling resource-constrained projects with a flexible project structure
Kellenbrink, Carolin; Helber, Stefan - 2013
In projects with a flexible project structure, the activities that have to be scheduled are not completely known beforehand. Instead, scheduling such a project includes the decision whether to carry out particular activities at all. This also effects precedence constraints between the finally...
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On multi-period emissions trading in the electricity sector
Bode, Sven - 2006
Emissions trading schemes on entity level are becoming more and more important in the context of controlling greenhouse gases. The directive on a Europe-wide trading scheme is a prime example. Prior to the start of such a scheme, a number of design features have to be agreed upon. Regarding the...
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The Efficiency of German Universities Some Evidence from Non-Parametric and Parametric Methods
Kempkes, Gerhard; Pohl, Carsten - 2006
Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving increasing attention in the academic as well as in the public discourse. Against this background we analyze the efficiency of 72 public German universities for the years 1998 to 2003,...
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Grundkonzeption für die Entwicklung eines Qualitätsmanagements im sozialwirtschaftlichen Bereich
Kramer, Jost W. - 2006
Die Qualität von Produkten und Dienstleistungen steht seit einiger Zeit im Mittelpunkt entsprechender Verbesserungsbemühungen, woraus sich entsprechende Konzepte für das Qualitätsmanagement ebenso wie für das Qualitätscontrolling entwickelt haben. Dabei ist Qualität nun wahrlich keine...
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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003
Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross?sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT?components. If two ICT?components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....
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