Delegation vs. control of component procurement under asymmetric cost information and simple contracts

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-56

  Kayis, Enis ^a   Erhun, Feryal ^b   Plambeck, Erica L ^c  

^a OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Componetw; Control; Delegation; Multitier supply chain

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; COMPONETW; DELEGATION; IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; MULTI-TIER; QUANTITY DISCOUNT; QUANTITY-DISCOUNT CONTRACT;

CONTROL; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COSTS;

EID: 84875272475     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1120.0395     Document Type: Article

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