منابع مشابه
Bi-Sourcing in the Global Economy
In organizing production, many rms conduct bi-sourcing, i.e., acquiring the same set of inputs by both buying from external suppliers (outsourcing) and carrying out in-house production (insourcing). We show that, by adopting the bi-sourcing strategy, rms can use the payo¤ from one supplier as a backup option in negotiating with the other supplier (the cross-threat e¤ect). When rms conduct bi...
متن کاملThe Mexico-China Sourcing Game: Teaching Global Dual Sourcing
W describe a three-hour class on global dual sourcing built around a game that demonstrates the challenges in making operational decisions, and transfers recent academic insights to the classroom. Student teams manage a firm with access to a responsive but expensive supply source (Mexico) and a cheap but remote source (China). Each team must determine a sourcing strategy to satisfy random deman...
متن کاملKostenreduzierung durch Global Sourcing
Nachdem viele Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie umfangreiche Restrukturierungsund Kostensenkungsprogramme durchgeführt haben, stellt das Global Sourcing, also die verstärkte Globalisierung von Beschaffungsaktivitäten den nächsten großen Stellhebel zur Kostenreduzierung dar. Da die Fertigungstiefe der OEM ́s relativ gering ist, sind die Beschaffungskosten einer der größten Kostenfaktoren. Die me...
متن کاملGlobal Sourcing under Uncertainty
I examine how firms’ global sourcing strategies affect their responses to economic crises such as the 2008-2009 recession. I model firms’ entry, exit and sourcing decisions (integrated production or outsourcing) under demand uncertainty. Uncertainty increases the option value of waiting, resulting in less integration as well as less entry and exit. Additionally, I show that trade decisions of i...
متن کاملInput Specificity and Global Sourcing
This paper investigates the role of productivity on a firm’s organizational choice. We set up an industry-equilibrium model in which heterogeneous firms concurrently choose their type of inputs, ownership structure and location of production. In choosing their type of inputs, firms trade off the extra customization costs of adopting generic inputs against the reduced hold-up friction that gener...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of International Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-1996
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2009.01.005