Combating Strategic Counterfeiters in Licit and Illicit Supply Chains

• Main Authors: CHO, Soo-Haeng, FANG, Xin, TAYUR, Sridhar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: game theory; global operations management; supply chain management; Business; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4485; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5484/viewcontent/XINFANG.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Counterfeit goods are becoming more sophisticated, from shoes to infant milk powder to aircraft parts, creating problems for consumers, firms, and governments. By comparing two types of counterfeiters—deceptive, so infiltrating a licit (but complicit) distributor, or nondeceptive in an illicit chann...