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Risk, Financing and the Optimal Number of Suppliers
- Source :
- Supply Chain Disruptions ISBN: 9780857297778
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer London, 2011.
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Abstract
- Should firms in developed economies work with more or fewer suppliers than firms in developing economies? More generally, how does the number of suppliers for a firm depend on the firm’s economic environment? To answer these questions we identify several economic and business factors that might affect the number of suppliers (and that separate developed and developing economies): supply risk, fixed costs of working with suppliers, and access to financing (particularly trade-credit financing).
Details
- ISBN :
- 978-0-85729-777-8
- ISBNs :
- 9780857297778
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Supply Chain Disruptions ISBN: 9780857297778
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7828d6ac2fdc267b1df626fc25cfbdca
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-778-5_8