Vertical Competition and Outsourcing in a Supply Chain

Hans W. Gottinger

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Vertical Competition and Outsourcing in a Supply Chain

Hans W. Gottinger

Published in International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 4, Issue 6)

Received: 23 November 2015 Accepted: 4 December 2015 Published: 30 December 2015

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This paper explores the importance of supply chain asymme tries by investigating the difference between firms in terms of key parameters. For the examination of inter-firm competition through product development, the context of simultaneous entry and sequential entry are treated separately. This allows a deeper understanding of the implications of information asymmetry and commit ment which have been regarded as important determinants in the context of game-theoretic studies. The study of innovation based competition has often considered aspects related to patent races and incremental product-process innovation to achieve distinctive advantage. However, recently innovation-based competition has become an aspect of buyer-supplier relationships. There are many instances in manufacturing where one finds situations of lock-ins created by innovative suppliers.

Published in	International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 4, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijber.20150406.17
Page(s)	315-322
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Supply Chain, Outsourcing, Competition, Investment Strategy, Stochastic Games

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Strategy, Technology, Economics, STRATEC Consulting, Munich, Germany

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