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作者：Hong, Xianpei; Zhou, Meiling; He, Zhixuan; Zhou, Pin; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Huazhong Agricultural University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This paper investigates the effect of cost learning on the manufacturer's procurement strategy in the presence of multiple local divisions and market competition, and the strategy preferences of stakeholders, such as the supplier. Firms are often confronted with a critical procurement decision: centralization versus decentralization. For this paper, we incorporate the learning effect into this crucial strategy and demonstrate its ubiquity and significant practical implications in today's techn...
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作者：Kong, Xiangyin; Yu, Yimin; Wang, Huihui
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong; Shanghai University
摘要：In practice, it is common, especially for online retailers, to bundle different products together during procurement to save transportation and handling costs. It is important to understand and theorize how to manage dynamic procurement by taking advantage of joint ordering in the presence of joint and individual setup costs. In this article, we characterize the structure of optimal policy for a periodic review multiproduct inventory system with multiple setup costs, including a joint setup co...
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作者：Gao, Xing; Zhang, Yanfang; Zhong, Boyuan; Wang, Xifan; Wang, Ying
作者单位：Southeast University - China; Nanjing University of Finance & Economics; Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications
摘要：While chief executive officer (CEO) competitive aggressiveness can be frequently observed in competitive industries with heavy R&D (research and development) investment, studies on its impact on R&D strategies and hiring strategies for competing firms are rare. This article builds a Cournot-based game model to examine this issue and obtain many novel findings in a competitive duopolistic market. In particular, compared with two firms hiring noncompetitive CEOs, hiring competitive CEOs may hind...
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作者：Singhal, Vinod; Wu, Jing
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：The bullwhip effect (BWE) is an important phenomenon in the operations and supply chain management field. Although it is commonly accepted that the BWE is widespread and can have a significant adverse impact on financial performance, there is surprisingly limited objective evidence on the financial consequences of the BWE. This paper examines the impact of the BWE on financial performance by examining the relationship between the BWE and stock price performance. The empirical analysis is based...
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作者：Le, Cuong; Mai, Tien
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：We study the assortment optimization problem under general linear constraints, where the customer choice behavior is captured by the cross-nested logit model. In this problem, there is a set of products organized into multiple subsets (or nests), where each product can belong to more than one nest. The aim is to find an assortment to offer to customers so that the expected revenue is maximized. We show that, under the cross-nested logit model, the unconstrained assortment problem is NP-hard ev...
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作者：Li, Meng; Li, Tao; Yu, Lili
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Santa Clara University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：The explosive growth of retail platforms over the past decade has resulted in a significant amount of customer and seller data that can be leveraged for advanced business analytics. As a result, the management of retail platforms with business analytics capabilities has garnered increased attention in the field of operations management. Despite the recognition of the importance of business analytics techniques for retail platforms, a systematic study of their operations is lacking in the liter...
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作者：Ganesh, Maya; Deo, Sarang; Devalkar, Sripad K.
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Governments across the developing world are adopting digital technologies to improve the performance of public sector supply chains. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of these technologies on performance is mixed. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of using biometric authentication (BA) devices on the performance of India's food security program. The program aims to deliver subsidized food grains to nearly 160 million low-income households through approximately 500,000 fair p...
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作者：Kwaramba, Christopher S.; Goldstein, Susan Meyer; Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Nottingham, Quinton J.; Cooper, Erica F.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：This study explores the application of formal metaphorical transfer to construct theory regarding supply chain resilience, a topic of increased significance due to rising supply chain disruptions. We propose an ecological resilience perspective to illuminate the complex, dynamic nature of supply chain systems. Our research pivots around two questions: (1) Can the resilience of endotherms (warm-blooded animals) serve as a conceptually robust source phenomenon for metaphorical transfer to the st...
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作者：Wu, Lezhen; Wu, Xiaole; Yi, Shuyue
作者单位：Fudan University
摘要：Due to the U.S.-China trade war, multinational firms may develop new contract manufacturers outside China to hedge against high tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. market. However, tariffs exhibit high uncertainty in recent years and developing a contract manufacturer incurs costs; hence, it is challenging to decide whether to develop a new contract manufacturer. We study two competing firms' contract manufacturer development decisions in a sequential game. First, we find that multinational...
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Lei; Li, Qiyang; Zeng, Fanzhuo
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Jinan University; Fuzhou University; Solent University; University of Southampton
摘要：Restaurants have traditionally operated offline only, but the growth of food delivery platforms has prompted a shift toward online sales. In practice, consumers who share digital coupons offered by the platforms (e.g. Uber Eats and Meituan) in social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat) will be rewarded for the social traffic, which effectively attracts many restaurants to open online store. However, this also leads to intensified competition with the restaurant's physical (offline) s...
