Relational supply contracts : optimal concessions in return policies for continuous quality improvements / by Michaela Isabel Hohn
- 作者: Hohn, Michaela Isabel.
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- Optimal concessions in return policies for continuous quality improvements
- 出版: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
- 叢書名: Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ,629
- 主題: Business logistics. , Economics/Management Science. , Procurement. , Operations Research/Decision Theory. , Game Theory/Mathematical Methods. , Optimization.
- ISBN: 9783642027918 (electronic bk.) 、 9783642027901 (paper)
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- 系統號: 005161126 | 機讀編目格式
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Supply relations are often governed by so-called relational contracts. These are informal agreements sustained by the value of future cooperation. Although relational contracts persist in practice, research on these types of contract is only emerging in Operations and Supply Chain Management. This book studies a two-firm supply chain, where repeated transactions via well-established supply contracts and continued quality-improvement efforts are governed by a relational contract. We are able to characterize an optimal relational contract, i.e., to develop policies for supplier and buyer that structure investments in quality and flexibility in a way that no other self-enforcing contract generates higher expected joint surplus. A second goal is to compare the performance of different returns mechanisms in the context of relational contracting (quantity flexibility and buy-back contracts). Industry studies motivate the presented model.