Second sourcing vs. sole sourcing with capacity investment and asymmetric information

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 448-470

  Li, Cuihong ^a   Debo, Laurens G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction; Sourcing; Supplier relationship; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; AUCTION; CAPACITY COSTS; CAPACITY INVESTMENT; COST INFORMATION; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; INSTALLED CAPACITY; INTERMEDIATE CAPACITY; OPTION VALUE; OVER-INVESTMENT; OVERALL BENEFIT; POSITIVE PROBABILITY; PRIVATE INFORMATION; SOURCING; SOURCING STRATEGIES; SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; SALES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 68349114917     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1080.0232     Document Type: Article

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