• We analyse procurement from suppliers with diseconomies of scale in production. Buyer can increase his surplus holding a split-award auction before setting price. Optimally leaves one supplier without lot and size is inefficiently large. All are active make positive profit. study how buyer unable to (directly) price discriminate should satisfy demand for divisible good, produced increasing ma...

The government of Karnataka has resolved to promote and employ an increasing number alternative fuels, particularly, wind energy. Selecting a windmill supplier is key decision when developing energy project, investors must evaluate various qualitative quantitative variables that interact symmetrically discover the best source. As result, multi-criteria decision-making procedure applied choose t...

A decades of offshoring production across the world, companies are rethinking their global networks. Local sourcing is receiving more attention, but it remains challenging to balance the offshore sourcing cost advantage against the increased inventories, because of its longer lead time, and against the cost and (volume) flexibility of each source’s capacity. To guide strategic allocation in thi...

Strategic sourcing, defined as a firm’s key business process to identify, evaluate, configure, and negotiate purchases in important spend categories while 142 DAI, NARASIMHAN, AND WU managing long-term supplier relationships, is playing a significant role in sourcing strategies. The adoption of e-sourcing, defined as the use of business software (for example, using application service providers...

Research Article Byounggu Choi Kookmin University [email protected] Jae-Nam Lee Korea University [email protected] Knowledge sourcing strategy (KSS) is regarded as a key determinant of successful Knowledge Management (KM). However, prior research on how KSSs can improve firm performance has produced inconsistent results. This may be due to inadequate consideration of complementary and subs...