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作者：Xu, Haifeng; Xiang, Yidan; Ding, Yi; Zhang, Pengzhu; Tan, Bernard C. Y.; Gopal, Ram
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National University of Singapore; University of Warwick
摘要：In recent years, patients have increasing autonomy in medical decision-making. With great autonomy in selecting medical institutions, patients with low-risk diseases may opt for treatment in prestigious hospitals, which limits the access of patients with high-risk diseases to these hospitals. Moreover, due to limited medical knowledge and a fear of uncertainty regarding diseases, patients with greater medical autonomy may request various unnecessary medical tests to alleviate their health-rela...
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作者：Namdar, Jafar; Pant, Gautam; Blackhurst, Jennifer
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Iowa
摘要：Using a large sample of supplier-firm relationships, we develop new measures to operationalize the industrial and geographical concentrations of firms' upstream industries. The developed measures show an upstream industry might be competitive and contain many suppliers (low industrial concentration) and yet be concentrated in a few countries (high geopolitical concentration) or a small geographical area (high geographical concentration), thus leaving the downstream firm vulnerable to geographi...
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作者：Srivastava, Abhishek; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Shkula, Shipra; Devi, Yashoda
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Kashipur; University of Liverpool; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Jammu
摘要：The second-hand market (SM) trades used products from the reverse channel. In practice, manufacturers such as Apple Inc. collect used products and sell refurbished products in the SM. However, third-party firms (TPFs) such as Gazelle independently manage the SM. Alternatively, the manufacturer may delegate the responsibility of managing the SM to a TPF under a contract or choose to operate in the SM with a TPF serving as a competitor. The optimal strategy to manage the SM is an important opera...
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作者：Wang, Ningning; Li, Zhuoxin
作者单位：China University of Petroleum; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The advance in e-commerce has provided firms with more options when designing their channel structures. The rise of beyond profit managerial doctrine has also added complexity to channel design. Extending the literature in distribution channels that focuses on for-profit firms, this paper develops a stylized model to examine the channel design problem for a socially responsible manufacturer who pursues a dual-purpose objective-the manufacturer values both profit and consumer surplus. We compar...
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作者：Xiao, Shengsheng; Ho, Yi-Chun (Chad); Zhou, Zhijin; Tan, Yong; Zhang, Mingrui
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; George Washington University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Denver
摘要：Crowdfunded Supply Chain Finance (SCF) represents a novel market design that transforms financial flows within the SCF paradigm. It enables crowd investors to serve as financers, lending vital working capital to suppliers facing liquidity problems. A distinctive feature of this market is the mandatory involvement of loan guarantors, which facilitates repeated interactions between investors and fundraisers, potentially fostering investor learning. To understand how such learning dynamics shape ...
