Supplement to “ Responsible Sourcing in Supply Chains ”
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چکیده
In this section, we allow consumers’ base valuations for the product to be uniformly distributed on the interval [vl, vh], independent of consumer type (socially conscious or non-socially conscious), where V = vh vl is defined as the width of the consumer valuation distribution. Socially conscious consumers are assumed to have homogenous, additive willingness-to-pay for responsibility equal to r, i.e., a socially conscious consumer with base valuation v 2 [vl, vh] is willing to pay v + r 2 [vl + r, vh + r] for a responsibly sourced product. Our goal is to demonstrate that two of our key results from the main paper continue to hold under this alternative assumptions, specifically:
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