This paper examines the relationship between product architecture, supply-chain performance metrics, and supply-chain efficiency. We model the contracting relationship between a supplier and a buyer. The supplier is privately informed about the outcome of his design/production investment. The...

O Pará é o segundo maior exportador de madeira do País - 20% do valor nacional de exportação (US$ 1,5 bilhão). A indústria moveleira paraense ocupou em 2003 um modesto décimo lugar na pauta de exportação de móveis e artefatos de madeira - inferior 3 % As dificuldades vão desde o...

Los Proyectos de Integración Productiva (PIPs) financiados por el BID buscan el mejoramiento de la competitividad de las pequeñas empresas en la región Latinoamericana. Los Directores de los Proyectos así como las agencias de desarrollo (donantes) y otros participantes directos de estos...

Many researchers and practitioners, facing the recent trend towards internalisation of markets and competition based on innovative products and high quality standards, have come to the conclusion that there is no single best way to organise industrial production.

In this paper, we study competition in multiechelon supply chains with an assembly structure. Firms in the supply chain are grouped into homogenous sectors (nodes) that contain identical firms with identical production capabilities that all produce exactly one undifferentiated product (that may...