Services outsourcing under asymmetric cost information
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- 作者：B. Mahadevan ; Jishnu Hazra ; Tarun Jain ; tarun.jain@iimb.ernet.in" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Decision processes ; Capacity reservation ; Bidding ; Asymmetric cost information
- 刊名：European Journal of Operational Research
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：1 March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：257
- 期：2
- 页码：456-467
- 全文大小：962 K
文摘
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We analyze a service supply chain where client firm sources from a set of vendors.
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Vendor’s variable cost structure is private information.
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We find as cost variation increases, optimum number of vendors decreases.
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We find a threshold policy of impact of demand uncertainty on size of vendor base.