Power grid equipment is the guarantee of the safe and stable operation of power grids, selecting rational power grid equipment suppliers is the focus of power grid enterprise. In order to select the equipment supplier for grid enterprises more objectively and comprehensively, this paper proposes a power grid equipment supplier selection method based on cloud model and hesitant linguistic inform...

Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from corporate activities are gradually becoming a mainstream management issue for businesses. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Standard has been adopted as the international standard to report a corporation’s overall emission profile of their value chain activities. Through Scope 3 Corporate Standard, companies can recognize potential emissions and associated ...

Supplier involvement is touted as enhancing a firm’s competitive edge, but its linkage with specific dimensions of manufacturing flexibility (e.g., volume flexibility) has not been established. This study investigates the relationship between supplier involvement, manufacturing flexibility, and business performance in the motherboard industry. Using data collected from 105 manufacturing firms, ...

Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. However, empirical studies in this area have been conducted primarily in manufacturing and/or at the SBU or firm level. It is unclear whether the results of these studies generalize to services and/or intra-firm processes. Thus, in this study we focus specifically on suppli...

Recent applications of game-theoretic analysis to supply chain efficiency have focused on constructs between a buyer (the retailer or manufacturer) and a seller (the supplier) in successive stages of a supply chain. If demand for the final product is stochastic then the supplier has an incentive to keep its capacity relatively low to avoid creating unneeded capacity. The manufacturer, on the ot...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that firms consider multiple criteria when selecting key suppliers. In this study, we present, based on econometric choice modeling framework, how manufacturing managers/executives tradeoff between cost, delivery, flexibility, and service features in the supplier selection process, given acceptable quality. Empirical data for this study was collected from manu...

This study investigates the relationships between U.S. buying firms’ supplier development efforts, commitment, social capital accumulation with key suppliers, and buying firm performance. We identify linkages between supply chain management research on supplier development and organization theory research on social capital to consider how buying firm commitment to a long-term relationship, cogn...

We consider a stochastic inventory control problem in which a buyer makes procurement decisions while facing periodic random demand and two supply sources, namely, a long-term contract supplier and a spot market. The contract between the buyer and the supplier partially shields the latter from the vicissitudes of the spot market, in that the price paid by the buyer to the supplier is only parti...

Prior studies have documented that in firm-supplier relations where the firm makes an investment up-front, the profits are exposed to expropriation by the supplier, and results in underinvestment. We analyze such a firm-supplier relation in a bargaining framework, and show that the bargaining power of the firm is positively related to the resale value of its investment, and negatively related t...