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作者：Orgut, Irem Sengul; Lodree, Emmett J.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：In the United States, food banks play an important role in helping to reduce the rate of food insecurity by distributing donated food among the population in need. One of the challenges that food banks face is to equitably distribute food donations among their clients such that, ideally, each recipient receives the same amount of food. They aim to do so while minimizing waste that occurs due to spoilage and capacity limitations. Perishable food items present specific challenges since they are ...
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作者：Gambaro, Anna Maria; Fusai, Gianluca; Sodhi, ManMohan S.; May, Caterina; Morelli, Chiara
作者单位：University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro; City St Georges, University of London; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：We propose a general modular approach to support decision-makers' response in the early stages of a pandemic with resource expansion, motivated by the shortage of Covid-19-related intensive care units (ICU) capacity in 2020 in Italy. Our approach uses (1) a stochastic extension of an epidemic model for scenarios of projected infections, (2) a capacity load model to translate infections into scenarios of demand for the resources of interest, and (3) an optimization model to allocate this demand...
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作者：Fang, Fang; Jiang, Baojun; Sun, Jiong
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles; Washington University (WUSTL); Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Firms sometimes acquire partial ownership of their upstream suppliers. Such ownership entails no direct control over the target firm's decision-making; however, both firms might change their pricing strategies after forming a partial ownership relationship. This paper studies the economic impacts of partial vertical ownership (PVO) in a market with downstream competition, where a manufacturer supplies two competing retailers. We find that dividend payments between firms can alter firms' incent...
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作者：Yin, Qianbo; Jiang, Baojun; Zhou, Sean Xiang
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Washington University (WUSTL); Chinese University of Hong Kong; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Bundling can change consumers' choice set and affect their purchase decision. It is well documented that consumers' preferences depend on the bundling context. In this paper, we investigate the effects of consumers' context-dependent preferences (CDPs) on the firm's optimal bundling strategy in various competitive situations. We consider a market where a monopolist firm in product category A also sells a product in product category B. We analyze three scenarios in category B: (1) an independen...
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作者：Chaturvedi, Aadhaar
作者单位：University of Auckland
摘要：We consider a multi-item buyer's make versus buy decision. The buyer sells two substitutable products with uncertain demand. Each product requires a different item, which the buyer procures from two separate suppliers (one for each item) who offer quantity-payment contracts under asymmetric information. The buyer can make one of the items but not both. We compare the buyer's expected profit between buying both the items and making one item (and buying the other), when it can make the item at t...
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作者：Feldman, Jacob; Jiang, Puping
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：In this paper, we consider an assortment optimization problem in which a platform must choose pairwise disjoint sets of assortments to offer across a series of T stages. Arriving customers begin their search process in the first stage, and progress sequentially through the stages until their patience expires, at which point they make a multinomial logit-based purchasing decision from among all products they have viewed throughout their search process. The goal is to choose the sequential displ...
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作者：Wu, Lezhen; Wu, Xiaole; Zhou, Yu
作者单位：Fudan University; Chongqing University
摘要：Pandemics, trade frictions, and military conflicts may disrupt manufacturers' production capacity. This paper develops a two-period supply chain model with supply disruption risk in the second period to investigate inventory decisions and the manufacturer's commitment strategies. We consider three strategies: no commitment, price commitment, and inventory commitment. Inventory holding within the supply chain is investigated under each strategy, and the dominant strategy is determined by compar...
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作者：Lee, Jaeseok; Jeong, Seongkyoon; Jung, Hyun Ju
作者单位：University of Auckland; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
摘要：Climate change as a global challenge requires collective responses from stakeholders in society. As the main source of energy consumption generating greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2), firms increasingly share their problems and experiences regarding energy saving in interfirm knowledge communities. By distinguishing knowledge sharing from free-riding, we investigate how firms that participate in an interfirm knowledge community for energy saving improve their energy efficiency. We use a unique pane...
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作者：Ying, Hao; Peng, Xiaosong (David); Zhao, Xiande; Chen, Zhong
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; Lehigh University; East China Normal University; East China Normal University
摘要：Blockchain-based track and trace (BCT) is increasingly adopted in the retail supply chain. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence quantifying the effects of BCT on consumer purchases or examining the heterogeneity of these effects with varying product-related characteristics. Employing transactional data from a leading global e-retailer that contains 540 stock keeping units (SKUs), we design a quasi-natural experiment spanning 80 weeks to estimate the signaling effect of BCT (i.e...
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作者：Chan, Tian Heong; Liu, Haibo; Keck, Steffen; Tang, Wenjie
作者单位：Emory University; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Vienna; Emory University
摘要：Research has demonstrated that certain team composition factors-high expertise similarity, high network cohesion, and mixed-gender teams-have predominantly negative effects on the teams' invention outcomes. Yet these factors have also been shown to improve team coordination, which should (in theory) lead to better invention outcomes. We address this tension by highlighting the need to consider the invention's integrality, which increases task interdependencies among team members and thereby st...
