Two‐source purchasing at differing factor‐unit costs is a common real‐world phenomenon. So too are uncertainty and risk aversion which, as this paper demonstrates, provides one explanation for why firms on occasion purchase from high‐cost sellers.
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Ira Horowitz (1986) studied this question.
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