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dc.contributor.authorKleer, Robin
dc.contributor.authorPillier, Frank T.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-11T07:30:02Z
dc.date.available2020-09-11T07:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.identifier.issn0925-5273
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.04.019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/6541
dc.description.abstractAdditive manufacturing (AM) allows to build components and finished series products directly from 3D data, without the need for tooling or other setup cost. An often discussed, but hardly investigated opportunity of AM is to establish economical and scalable local production facilities for innovating consumers (who turn into “prosumers”). In this paper, we investigate the effect of such a local production (enabled by AM) on consumer welfare, market structure, and competitive dynamics. Doing so, we provide a new perspective on the fundamental trade-off between the instant availability of (perfectly fitting) products manufactured by and in close proximity to a consumer and the efficiency gains of realizing economies of scale by producing standard products in a central facility. We analyze AM from the perspective of the established theories of user innovation and spatial competition. Building on two game-theoretical (Hotelling) models, we show that there is scope for the improvement of consumer welfare arising from local production by consumer producers. Our analysis allows us to make a number of propositions concerning the effects of AM on market structure when adopted by local users, and to identify the specific conditions of these shifts.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAdditive Manufacturingen_US
dc.subject3D Printingen_US
dc.subjectMarket Structureen_US
dc.subjectUser Innovationen_US
dc.subjectLocalization of Manufacturingen_US
dc.subjectProsumeren_US
dc.titleLocal manufacturing and structural shifts in competition: Market dynamics of additive manufacturingen_US
dc.identifier.journalInternational Journal of Production Economicsen_US
dc.source.volume216en_US
dc.source.issueOctoberen_US
dc.source.beginpage23en_US
dc.source.endpage34en_US
dc.contributor.departmentRWTH Aachen University, Technology and Innovation Management Group, Kackertstr. 7, 52072, Aachen, Germanyen_US
vlerick.knowledgedomainInnovation Managementen_US
vlerick.knowledgedomainOperations & Supply Chain Managementen_US
vlerick.typearticleVlerick strategic journal articleen_US
vlerick.vlerickdepartmentTOMen_US
dc.identifier.vperid228947en_US


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