Outsourcing production on a small scale

Production Scale Up of Nanofibers: A Review

Medicine on a small scale.

EMBO reports VOL 4 | NO 11 | 2003 ©2003 EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION 1008 Over the past few years, nanotechnology has emerged as a new and exciting research field that deals with the design, synthesis and fabrication of structures at the molecular scale. Smallness is not in itself the prime goal; it is rather the expectation that, by manipulating matter at the molecular level, new in...

Competition and Outsourcing with Scale Economies

Scale economies are commonplace in operations, yet, due to analytical challenges, relatively little is known about how ...rms should compete in their presence. This paper presents a model of competition between two ...rms that face scale economies; i.e., each ...rm’s cost per unit of demand is decreasing in demand. A general framework is used, which incorporates competition between two service ...

Strategic Outsourcing under Economies of Scale

Economies of scale in upstream production can lead both disintegrated downstream firm as well as its vertically integrated rival to outsource offshore for intermediate goods, even if offshore production has moderate cost disadvantage compared to inhouse production of the vertically integrated firm.

The Slow Food Model: A Road for Small-Scale Productions in a Globalised Market

The paper presents the articulated strategy of valorization, implemented by the international movement called Slow Food in Italy and abroad in order to reconsider the concept of agricultural profitability. In particular, the paper suggests profitability lays on the value markets recognize to agricultural production. In this perspective, the Slow Food strategy represents a good practice to be em...