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The interactive emphasis of vertical and horizontal collaboration in the semiconductor industry supply chain (SSC) support the buyer(s) performing procurement activities with supplier(s) through joint planning and decision-making, information sharing, resource sharing and incentive alignment. The paper proposes a framework to explore the resource sharing conditions under which enterprises are m...

We analyze the sourcing decision of a buyer choosing between two supplier types: responsible suppliers are costly but adhere to strict social and environmental responsibility standards, while risky suppliers are less expensive but may experience responsibility violations. A segment of the consumer population, called socially conscious, is willing to pay a higher price for a product sourced from...

Collaborating with a supplier in a buying firm’s new product development (NPD) project is commonly advocated and adopted, but does not always improve project performance. Some pre-existing collaboration contexts, such as buyer-supplier NPD projects, are especially exposed to supplier opportunism due to the uncertain nature of the collaboration process. Adopting agency theory and transaction cos...

This paper presents a two-leveled mobile agent system for electronic commerce. It is based on mobile agents as mediators and uses the publish/subscribe paradigm for registration and transaction processing. In the system we present, suppliers can connect, register or unregister to the system at any time, thus preserving the dynamic nature of the system. To reduce network load and the flow of unn...

Research Article Tat Koon Koh Hong Kong University of Science and Technology [email protected] Mark Fichman Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] This study focuses on trust formation and development in global buyer-supplier relationships. Trust affects all business relationships, especially global business-to-business (B2B) transaction...

Over the past 10 to 15 years, the conventional wisdom within the purchasing and supply field has been that the development of collaborative relationships represents best practice purchasing and supply management. It is the contention of the authors, however, that this view is misguided and that managers need to adopt a fit-for purpose approach. For some purchases, a collaborative relationship i...

for the DRUID Summer Conference 2000 June 15-17, 2000 Rebild, Denmark Modularity refers to the scheme by which interfaces share among components in a given product architecture are specified and standardized to allow for greater reusability and commonality sharing of components among product families. One of the characteristics of modular products is the standard interfaces shared among compone...

T paper studies a buyer’s procurement strategies in a two-stage supply chain with price-sensitive demand. The buyer procures a product from a supplier and then sells to the marketplace. Market demand is stochastic and depends on the buyer’s selling price. The supplier’s production cost is private information, and the buyer only knows the distribution of the cost. Both the buyer and the supplier...

This paper studies a buyer’s procurement strategies in a two-stage supply chain with price-sensitive demand. The buyer procures a product from a supplier and then sells to the marketplace. Market demand is stochastic and depends on the buyer’s selling price. The supplier’s production cost is private information, and the buyer only knows the distribution of the cost. Both the buyer and the suppl...