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Outsourcing decision in the presence of supplier copycatting: a two-period approach
Shobeir Amirnequiee, Hubert Pun, Joe Naoum-Sawaya
Ivey Business School, Canada
Supplier copycatting occurs when the supplier (S) to a manufacturer (M) copies M’s product and sells a copycat product to the customers. M can change its suppliers; and S runs the risk of facing repercussions if it decides to copy. We propose a two-period game-theoretic approach to supplier copycatting. We investigate a setting with M, copycatting S, and non-copycatting S, and examine how the equilibrium is influenced by the presence of future opportunities and repercussions facing the firms.
Direct trade sourcing strategies for specialty coffee
Scott Webster1, Burak Kazaz2, Shahryar Gheibi3
1Arizona State University, United States of America; 2Syracuse University; 3Siena College
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Last time buys during product rollovers: Manufacturer and supplier equilibria
Audrey Bazerghi, Jan A. Van Mieghem
Northwestern University, United States of America
We study a manufacturer-supplier interaction during the rollover between a legacy part and its successor in a durable good supply chain. In practice, manufacturers try in vain to leverage the future business of the new part to delay a supplier’s ''last time buy'' and retirement of the old part. We propose a two-stage noncooperative game to guide managers and prove that there exist only six subgame perfect Nash equilibria which achieve this delay under a simple necessary and sufficient condition.
