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作者：Zajac, Sandra; Kuhn, Heinrich
摘要：This article introduces the first joint shelf design and space planning problem that considers two placement options for items-hanging and shelving-on flexible shelves. These types of shelves are used in sectors such as do-it-yourself and toy retail, and for household goods in grocery stores. However, they have received limited attention in the literature, which typically focuses on regular shelves with a single placement option: placing items on shelf panels. The problem requires three interd...
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作者：Bhandari, Ashish S.; Sapra, Amar; Seshadri, Sridhar; Sastry, Trilochan
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper presents a decision support system used by an agricultural cooperative in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to optimize the purchase, blending, sale, and storage of groundnuts for maximum profit. The cooperative buys raw groundnuts (input commodity) from member farmers and processes them into multiple grades of groundnut seeds (output commodity). These may then be blended to create intermediate grades to exploit arbitrage opportunities. The cooperative sells part of ...
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作者：Cheng, Yan; Lin, Shaochong; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：Social scope group buying has emerged as an increasingly popular promotional strategy and has served as a new customer acquisition tool. In the service industry, companies use social group buying (SGB) to recruit new customers and promote full-price products. Through SGB activities, customers can trade their social capital to form buying groups, experience SGB-offered sample products, and further alleviate uncertainty regarding expensive full-price products before making a final purchase. We i...
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作者：Yu, Jisun; Lee, Kyunghee; Han, Kunsoo; Cantor, David E.
作者单位：Concordia University - Canada; McGill University; Iowa State University
摘要：This research examines how national cultural differences between the acquirer and target firms affect post-acquisition performance in cross-border acquisitions. We focus on two dimensions of national culture-individualism/collectivism (IDV) and power distance (PDI)-for their close relevance to structural changes that occur during post-acquisition integration. We find that while differences in PDI are negatively associated with post-acquisition performance, differences in IDV positively affect ...
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作者：Xu, Jin; Duan, Lingjie; Shou, Biying; Huang, Jianwei
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Singapore University of Technology & Design; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; City University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：We examine a scenario in which a service provider updates its queue length information to customers at a specific frequency. Customers decide whether to join the queue based on the most recent update. Our objective is to determine the optimal updating frequency that benefits both the service provider and customers. Using a two-dimensional continuous-time Markov process, we model the actual and announced queue length processes. By proving the identical distributions of these two processes under...
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Liu, Yaoqi; Jin, Yong; Wang, Xin; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Montpellier Business School; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Relevance: In this article, we focus on the decision of a multinational firm (MNF) on production strategies under the influence of national culture. The national culture of a country can result in a high preference for openness or self-reliance, and such a preference changes over time. The related government policies have a strong impact on the MNF's decision whether to produce overseas and sell products in the domestic market or produce locally for domestic selling. Theory and methodology: We...
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作者：Marques, Leonardo; Morais, Dafne; Terra, Ana
作者单位：Audencia; Centro Universitario da FEI; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
摘要：The fashion industry has consistently ranked high in terms of its association with modern slavery. While scandals like the Rana Plaza incident have focused the world's attention on Asia, in Brazil, over 35,000 people have been rescued from conditions analogous to slavery in the past 15 years. Outsourcing and the underlying social structures that blur the implementation of outsourcing are central to this problem. Fashion supply chains are highly fragmented and labour intensive, exhibiting power...
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作者：Starr, Martin K.
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作者：Wang, Peng; Zhang, Haozhao; Zhang, Zhe (James)
作者单位：Northwestern Polytechnical University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This study examines a ridesharing platform's choice among two quality-dependent compensation schemes for drivers when the market is oversupplied, that is, there are more drivers than riders at a given time. We examine an information asymmetric context in which drivers (high and low cost) have different costs to improve service quality, which is private information. The platform designs a menu of contracts for drivers to reveal their type. In the assigning-differentiation compensation scheme, t...
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作者：Liu, Lei; Wang, Yingfei; Fang, Zhen; Wu, Shaohui
作者单位：Central University of Finance & Economics; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Fudan University; Harbin Institute of Technology
摘要：Social media marketing has been relentlessly developed and integrated into firm operations. On social media platforms, firms rely on a combination of verbal and visual elements to communicate with consumers and attract their attention. The present research investigates how the semantic relationship between text and image information affects consumer engagement (forwards and comments). Leveraging a large-scale dataset of firm-generated messages, we use deep learning, large language models, and ...
