-
作者：Ren, Xinyi; Evers, Philip T.; Windle, Robert J.
作者单位：Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：With the increasingly uncertain future of brick-and-mortar (B&M) retailing, companies are exploring new ways to avoid the high costs associated with maintaining traditional, full-service retail stores. One solution, pop-up stores, has gained popularity in recent years. This paper uses empirical evidence from a leading U.S. retailer to examine the value of pop-up retailing. Specifically, we focus on pop-up stores operated by a traditional multichannel retailer over 3 years and examine their imp...
-
作者：Jakhu, Gaurav; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Indian Statistical Institute; Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
摘要：Dominant online platforms are increasingly collecting user-specific data across multiple markets, raising red flags as regards privacy, as well as potential anti-competitive abuses. We analyze competition among two platforms, with one platform collecting data in market 1 where it is dominant, using it to improve its competitive edge in market 2 where it competes in both prices and advertisements with the other platform. Our analysis unearths a novel anti-competitive effect of competition-that ...
-
作者：Jang, Hongseok; Zheng, Quan; Pan, Xiajun Amy
作者单位：Tulane University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Currently, major online retail platforms, such as Amazon and JD, provide both conventional reselling channels and online marketplaces (i.e., agency channels), enabling their suppliers to encroach more efficiently than the traditional self-established direct channel. We construct a parsimonious model of a bilateral monopoly supply chain where the supplier can encroach through online marketplaces as both reselling and agency channels are available. Surprisingly, the encroachment option does not ...
-
作者：Luo, Xuechen; Wang, Chong (Alex); Ge, Ling
作者单位：Shanghai International Studies University; City University of Hong Kong; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要：Online platforms that rely on voluntary user contributions face persistent challenges in maintaining sustained and active participation. This study investigates the effectiveness of a unique combination of social mechanisms-a group reputation system-in motivating individual voluntary contributions within the context of online prosocial crowdfunding. While a strong group identity can inspire member participation, the study also acknowledges a potential downside: a positive group reputation may ...
-
作者：Starr, Martin K.
-
作者：Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu; Gopal, Ram
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of Warwick
摘要：Federal agencies use reverse auctions to procure cloud infrastructure services offered by major public cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Although recent research has examined operational issues in cloud computing, these papers have not analyzed the vendor base design decisions when these cloud capacity instances are procured through the reverse auction mechanism. Therefore, several important research questions are still unaddressed. For example, how should federal clients ...
-
作者：Lejeune, Miguel A.; Margot, Francois
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Cardiac arrests are a significant health concern in the United States, as more than 350,000 occur annually and 90% of them are fatal. Providing quick access to automated external defibrillators is paramount since irreversible damage to vital organs occurs within minutes without cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation. We propose a novel optimization model to design a network of drones delivering automated external defibrillators in response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. The netw...
-
作者：Wang, Xinchang; Xu, Weikun
作者单位：Washington State University
摘要：This work aims to jointly estimate the arrival rate of customers to a market and the nested logit model that forecasts hierarchical customer choices from an assortment of products. The estimation is based on censored transactional data, where lost sales are not recorded. The goal is to determine the arrival rate, customer taste coefficients, and nest dissimilarity parameters that maximize the likelihood of the observed data. The problem is formulated as a maximum likelihood estimation model th...
-
作者：Zhou, Wenhui; Gan, Yanhong; Huang, Weixiang; Guo, Pengfei
作者单位：South China University of Technology; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Facilitated by information technology and online platforms, group service has emerged in many service systems, such as one-to-many tour guide service, one-to-many tutoring courses and one-to-many medical diagnosis. We consider a service provider offering both group service and individual service and model it as a single-server queue in which customers with heterogeneous waiting costs make both joining/balking and group/individual service decisions. We solve the private provider's service assor...
-
作者：Zhang, Ting; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Cheng, T. C. Edwin
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of Liverpool; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Many firms adopt behavioral-based pricing (BBP) to customize prices for both existing and new consumers whose valuations of products are influenced by the variety-seeking behavior, that is, the tendency to pursue diversity in brand or product choices. While this behavior is common in practice, it remains underexplored in the literature. To investigate BBP in markets with variety-seeking consumers, we develop a two-period model involving two competing firms. Our findings reveal that when firms ...
