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Sourcing for Quality: Cooperating with a Single Supplier or Developing Two Competing Suppliers?
Table 6
Effect of key parameters on the equilibrium outcomes of the dual-sourcing case.
| | Strategy | | | | | | | |
| | DC-strategy | Case 1 | | | | | | | | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | Case 2 | | | | | | | | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for |
| | DD-strategy | Case 1 | | | | | | | | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | Case 2 | | | | | | | | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≤0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 for | | ≤0 for | ≤0 for | | | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 | ≥0 for | ≥0 | | ≤0 for |
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Note: definitions of notations , , , , , and are presented in online supplements.
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