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作者：Awaysheh, Amrou; Narayanan, Sriram; Jacobs, Brian W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Pepperdine University
摘要：Using factory-level data from a large multinational manufacturer, we examine the effects of both organizational experience and knowledge transfer on an increasingly critical environmental performance measure, the consumption of water required for manufacturing. We estimate the direct effects on water consumption from in-factory cumulative production experience and the vicarious learning from peer factories in the same product category. We consider vicarious learning from three potential source...
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作者：Tanrisever, Fehmi; Joglekar, Nitindra
作者单位：Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University; Villanova University
摘要：We assess how a retailer can manage inventories and labor under an extreme condition such as a temporary negative demand shock due to a pandemic or an economic turmoil. This analysis incorporates labor market frictions whereby firms incur deadweight costs associated with hiring and firing employees, as well as the option to furlough labor. We examine the impact of these frictions on a retail firm's optimal operating policies around inventory level, furlough, and layoffs. We find that labor mar...
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作者：Wu, Chenguang (Allen); Jin, Chen; Liu, Qian
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：We depart from the classic bundling literature on single-unit purchases and develop a multi-unit demand model in which customers decide both the variety and volume of their purchased products. We integrate product bundling with two commonly used usage-based pricing schemes in the service industry, pay-per-use and subscriptions, and examine pricing tactics that span both variety and usage. Our model captures customers' diminishing margins of consumption, and we demonstrate an intricate interpla...
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作者：Li, Tian; Luo, Huajiang; Shang, Weixin
作者单位：East China University of Science & Technology; Southwest Jiaotong University; Lingnan University
摘要：We study two competing firms' incentives for demand information sharing and their production timing strategies. One firm adopts routine timing, where her production time is fixed according to her previous product models' manufacturing time. The other firm uses strategic timing, where his production time can be strategically chosen to occur before, concurrently with, or after that of the routine-timing firm. The firms decide whether to disclose their private demand information and make quantity...
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作者：Jalili, Monire; Pangburn, Michael S.; Yazdani, Alireza
作者单位：Bentley University; University of Oregon; California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona
摘要：Fashion sellers are sometimes critiqued for selling low durability products, resulting in waste. Blame is also directed at consumers, who purchase new fashions despite having accumulated a closet full of prior fashions. The slow fashion movement encourages sellers to produce higher durable products, thus supporting less frequent purchases by consumers. Using an infinite-time model and considering strategic consumer behavior, including their ability to accumulate a closet of varieties over time...
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作者：Jenkins, Donald John; Pajouh, Foad Mahdavi; Kirshen, Paul H.; Eftekhar, Mahyar
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Stevens Institute of Technology; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This study aims to extend the existing climate-change-induced flood mitigation research. We introduce an at-risk network to evaluate optimal cost-benefit strategies for creating dikes and levees to mitigate flood hazard over multiple years. Our proposed model includes the expected flood costs, estimated using possible climate-change-induced sea-level states throughout the planning horizon, and the investment costs for developing dikes and levees via land elevations across the at-risk network. ...
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作者：Lin, Xi; Gui, Luyi; Lu, Yixin
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; George Washington University
摘要：Livestream commerce has become an important sales channel with billions of revenue potential. A major challenge that brands often face in managing livestream sales in practice is negotiating sales prices and commission rates with key opinion leaders (KOLs) who promote products in such sales. On the one hand, KOLs can increase consumer reach, enhance consumer valuation of a product, and improve profitability of a sale. On the other hand, KOLs-who typically promise low sales prices in livestream...
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作者：Golara, Sina; Dooley, Kevin J.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Noting the significant shift in the manufacturing sector towards services in recent decades, this study examines the potential of service operations as a source of customer insight. We study whether regular customer exposure during service operations can drive commercially significant and patentable innovation. Furthermore, we highlight the underexplored heterogeneity in the knowledge-generating potential of service activities. Using the media richness theory, we argue that more contact-intens...
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作者：Yang, Cong; Huh, Woonghee Tim
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：We consider a periodic-review single-product multi-echelon inventory problem with instantaneous replenishment. In each period, the decision-maker makes ordering decisions for all echelons. Any unsatisfied demand is back-ordered, and any excess inventory is carried to the next period. In contrast to the classic inventory literature, we assume that the information of the demand distribution is not known a priori, and the decision-maker observes demand realizations over the planning horizon. We p...
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作者：Ahn, Hyun Soo; Cetinkaya, Eren; Duenyas, Izak; Zhang, Mengzhenyu
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of London; University College London
摘要：This paper studies how capacity collaboration can benefit two competing firms. We consider a two-stage model where capacity decisions are made in the first stage when there are significant uncertainties about market conditions, and then production decisions are made in the second stage after most of these uncertainties are resolved. We vary the degree of collaboration between the two firms in their capacity and production decisions, examining multiple models and comparing the outcomes. We find...
