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The Relational advantages of intermediation / Elena Belavina in Management science, Vol 58 N°9 (Septembre 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol 58 N°9 (Septembre 2012) . - pp.1614-1631 Titre : The Relational advantages of intermediation Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elena Belavina, Auteur ; Karan Girotra, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : pp.1614-1631 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Global  sourcing  Intermediaries  Supply  chain  relationships  Relational  contracts  Flexibility  Li  &  Fung  Repeated  games Résumé : This paper provides a novel explanation for the use of supply chain intermediaries. We find that even in the absence of the well-known transactional and informational advantages of mediation, intermediaries improve supply chain performance. In particular, intermediaries facilitate responsive adaptation of the buyers' supplier base to their changing needs while simultaneously ensuring that suppliers behave as if they had long-term sourcing commitments from buying firms. In the face of changing buyer needs, an intermediary that sources on behalf of multiple buyers can responsively change the composition of future business committed to a supplier such that a sufficient level of business comes from the buyer(s) that most prefer this supplier. On the other hand, direct buyers that source only for themselves must provide all their committed business to a supplier from their own sourcing needs, even if they no longer prefer this supplier. Unlike existing theories of intermediation, our theory better explains the observed phenomenon that although transactional barriers and information asymmetries have steadily decreased, the use of intermediaries has soared, even among large companies such as Walmart. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/9/1614.abstract [article] The Relational advantages of intermediation [texte imprimé] / Elena Belavina, Auteur ; Karan Girotra, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp.1614-1631. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol 58 N°9 (Septembre 2012) . - pp.1614-1631 Mots-clés : Global  sourcing  Intermediaries  Supply  chain  relationships  Relational  contracts  Flexibility  Li  &  Fung  Repeated  games Résumé : This paper provides a novel explanation for the use of supply chain intermediaries. We find that even in the absence of the well-known transactional and informational advantages of mediation, intermediaries improve supply chain performance. In particular, intermediaries facilitate responsive adaptation of the buyers' supplier base to their changing needs while simultaneously ensuring that suppliers behave as if they had long-term sourcing commitments from buying firms. In the face of changing buyer needs, an intermediary that sources on behalf of multiple buyers can responsively change the composition of future business committed to a supplier such that a sufficient level of business comes from the buyer(s) that most prefer this supplier. On the other hand, direct buyers that source only for themselves must provide all their committed business to a supplier from their own sourcing needs, even if they no longer prefer this supplier. Unlike existing theories of intermediation, our theory better explains the observed phenomenon that although transactional barriers and information asymmetries have steadily decreased, the use of intermediaries has soared, even among large companies such as Walmart. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/9/1614.abstract