Sourcing from emerging economies may yield direct cost savings, but companies often face greater risk of supplier responsibility problems due to many factors, with lax regulatory enforcement in these regions being one of them. Intuitively, to mitigate such risks, companies can design incentive schemes in sourcing contracts and invest in screening mechanisms for supplier sourcing. However, the r...

We consider a model of bribery in an asymmetric procurement auction. In return for a bribe from the dishonest supplier, the auctioneer has the discretion to allow this supplier to revise his bid downward to match the low bid of the honest supplier. The dishonest supplier can also win the contract outright without paying a bribe by bidding below the honest supplier. We investigate the effect of ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Asymmetry Customer–supplier relationships Smaller supplier Larger customer Taiwanese electronics industry The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship development stages of asymmetric customer–supplier relationships. The structure of relationships between larger customers and smaller suppliers has been the focus of a number of studies in IMP (Industri...

This paper develops a pricing and inventory model of a supply chain composing one supplier and two manufacturers in which the supplier sells its product to two competing manufacturers. Each manufacturer faces a deterministic demand that depends on his/her own and the other competitor sale price. Selling price for the supplier is time dependent and increment function.Both amelioration and deteri...

Business services have become a considerable share of many firms’ external resources. Several service typologies been proposed. This study explores the underlying dynamic interaction patterns in business through lens relational interfaces. Five exploratory case studies show presence variety buyer–supplier Thus, relevance to increasing firm’s productivity or innovativeness may require an assessm...

supplier evaluation and selection is important in supply chain management. this is a typical multiple criteria decision making that consists of both quantitative and qualitative factors. ahp is a proper approach to aid this decision making problem, because of its inherent capacity to handle qualitative and quantitative criteria, but when criteria are dependent this method is not so good. also t...

In this paper, we consider an algorithm for solving the minimum k-supplier problem using the Adleman–Lipton model. The procedure works in O(n) steps for the minimum k-supplier problem of an undirected graph with n vertices, which is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Keywords-DNA Computing, minimum k-supplier, AdlemanLipton