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Supply Disruptions and Optimal Network Structures

Kostas Bimpikis
Kostas Bimpikis
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5289-0397
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
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Ozan Candogan
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Ozan Candogan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-402X
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637;
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Shayan Ehsani
Shayan Ehsani
Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Kostas Bimpikis

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5289-0397

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;

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Ozan Candogan

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Ozan Candogan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-402X

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637;

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Shayan Ehsani

Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

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Published Online:1 Aug 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3217

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Received:June 11, 2017
Accepted:September 10, 2018
Published Online:August 01, 2019

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