Based on 100 environmental violations occurring in China in 2018 and matched supply
chain relationship data obtained from Bloomberg, our research shows that environmental …

As multisourcing becomes a widely adopted strategy in dynamic procurement planning,
firms inevitably source from suppliers with dependent material flows, and such supply …

This paper investigates mechanisms by which a powerful original equipment manufacturers
procures multiple inputs for assembly from suppliers with privately informed costs, either …

We study a buyer's sourcing strategy when suppliers can reduce their unit costs through
production learning coupled with investments in process improvements. The buyer sources …

We investigate procurement in a setting in which the buyer is bound by sourcing rules.
Sourcing rules may limit the minimum and maximum amounts of business that can be …

Operations management (OM) has evolved to its current status due to the contributions of
researchers in many fields including economics, finance, behavioral sciences, operations …

Procurement auctions are widely used by governments and corporations to solicit bids for
services and projects. Such auctions involve significant risk for the buyer, because the …

Wholesale price bids commonly occur in procurement auctions where dual sourcing is
usually employed to mitigate supply risks. When at most two winners are required …

Many industries are characterized by large buyers and suppliers whose decisions are
influenced by the strategic interactions among these parties. Here we present an economic …

In this paper we study two reverse auction formats in a single period setting, the sealed pay-
as-bid and the open format, when suppliers are capacity constrained. In the pay-as-bid …