The Role of Transfer Pricing Schemes in Coordinated Supply Chains
Resource
Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance,25(3),375-404.
Journal
Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
3
Pages
375-404
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010-06
Author(s)
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to study how transfer-pricing schemes interact with subcontractors' opportunistic behaviors to affect supply chain coordination. We model the supply chain by incorporating asymmetric information among all the parties, contractors' innovation activities, subcontractors' misappropriation, and transfer-pricing schemes. We examine the impact of various transfer-pricing schemes on supply chain efficiency. Specifically, we conduct a performance comparison between the variablecost transfer-pricing scheme and the full-cost transfer-pricing scheme. We find that the subcontractor's choice of transfer-pricing scheme affects the contractor's sourcing decisions and supply chain performance. For a selected set of parameters we show that the variable-cost transfer-pricing scheme achieves better supply chain coordination.
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Type
journal article