Excerpt from Supplier Competition, Uncertainty and Make or Buy Decisions The make or buy decisions we study were made by managers in a division of a large US automobile firm for components of assemblies and subassemblies the division manufactured. All but two of the components in our sample were previously made or bought by the division, and all the components were either parts of new cars or replacement parts for old models. Therefore, the division faced the problem of managing potentially recurrent contracts with suppliers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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