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作者：Wang, Nianxin; Yang, Yuxue; Fang, Yulin; Li, Huifang; Lu, Angela
作者单位：Jiangsu University of Science & Technology; University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Jiangsu University of Science & Technology
摘要：Sharing economy platforms are pressed to rapidly grow user bases at the early stage by aggressively targeting potential users through competitive actions. Due to the volatile nature of the sharing economy and its disruption to industry norms, these platforms encounter legitimacy challenges that impede user base growth. This paper integrates competitive repertoire and institutional legitimacy theories to develop a research model that explains early-stage user base development in the sharing eco...
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作者：Takasi, Goutham; Dawande, Milind; Janakiraman, Ganesh
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We study the design of crowdsourcing contests in settings where the outputs of the contestants are quantifiable, for example, a data science challenge. This setting is in contrast to those where the output is only qualitative and cannot be objectively quantified, for example, when the goal of the contest is to design a logo. The literature on crowdsourcing contests focuses largely on ordinal contests, where contestants' outputs are ranked by the designer and awards are based on relative ranks....
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作者：Gijsbrechts, Joren; Imdahl, Christina; Boute, Robert N.; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Eindhoven University of Technology; Vlerick Business School; KU Leuven; Northwestern University
摘要：We study inventory control with volume flexibility: A firm can replenish using period-dependent base capacity at regular sourcing costs and access additional supply at a premium. The optimal replenishment policy is characterized by two period-dependent base-stock levels but determining their values is not trivial, especially for nonstationary and correlated demand. We propose the Lookahead Peak-Shaving policy that anticipates and peak shaves orders from future peak-demand periods to the curren...
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作者：Wang, Xinchang; He, Qie
作者单位：Washington State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We study capacity sizing of park-and-ride lots that offer services to commuters sensitive to congestion and parking availability information. The goal is to determine parking lot capacities that maximize the total social welfare for commuters whose parking lot choices are predicted using the multinomial logit model. We formulate the problem as a nonconvex nonlinear program that involves a lower and an upper bound on each lot's capacity, and a fixed-point constraint reflecting the effects of pa...
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作者：Sun, Kai; Sun, Minghe; Agrawal, Deepak; Dravenstott, Ronald; Rosinia, Frank; Roy, Arkajyoti
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：This work addresses the practical anesthesiologist scheduling (AS) problem motivated by the needs of an academic anesthesiology department. The AS problem requires the department to plan and deploy providers to adequately meet clinical demand and institutional protocols of various clinical units over a planning horizon of up to several weeks. A data-driven two-step AS framework is developed by exploiting the historical demand data of anesthesia cases. The first step is a shift design which obt...
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作者：Chen, Jialie
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Ending-9 prices are extremely popular among retailers, leveraging consumers' perception biases. However, despite the popularity of this pricing strategy, understanding of its impact on online retailers is still limited. This is particularly true given the complexity of online retail where consumers need to traverse a shopping funnel, consisting of decisions with shopping cart and purchases. This study aims to answer the following three questions: First, do consumers hold a perception bias towa...
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作者：Tang, Yanli; Sethi, Suresh P.; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：We consider an e-tailer's upstream supplier who wants to encroach into retailing to earn additional revenue. The supplier needs to decide whether or not to enter the retail market by either selling to consumers on the e-tailer's platform by paying commission fees (agency encroachment) or opening an independent online/offline retail store (direct encroachment). The e-tailer has private demand information and decides whether or not to share it with the supplier. Two leadership scenarios-the supp...
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作者：Hezarkhani, Behzad; Arisian, Sobhan; Mansouri, Afshin
作者单位：University of Southampton; Solent University; La Trobe University; Brunel University; University of Southampton; Solent University
摘要：The tariff rate quota (TRQ) is a widely utilized market access instrument in global agricultural trade that allows a predetermined quantity of a product to be imported at a lower tariff rate than the usual rate. This study examines the design and administration of TRQ systems from an operations management perspective and analyzes their impact on market access, fill rates, and revenue for policymakers. We investigate the two most common TRQ administration methods, namely, licensing and first-co...
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作者：Cao, Bin; Chen, Xin; Edwin Cheng, T. C.; Zhong, Yuanguang; Zhou, Yong-Wu
作者单位：Jinan University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; South China University of Technology
摘要：This paper studies the operations and financial decisions of two capital-constrained firms via a limited joint liability (LJL) financing scheme offered by a bank with a menu of loan terms including interest rate and leverage ratio/credit line. To explicitly assess the value of LJL financing, we assume that the firms either use LJL financing scheme or traditional individual financing scheme to finance their operations. Under LJL financing scheme, we construct a non-cooperative game model in whi...
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作者：Lu, Yingda; Wang, Youwei; Chen, Yuxin; Xiong, Yun
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Fudan University; New York University; NYU Shanghai; Fudan University; Fudan University
摘要：In this paper, we employ large-scale sensor data to examine the impact of data-based intelligence and work-related experience on the time efficiency of individual taxi drivers, measured by their propensity of choosing the fastest routes. The identification strategy is built on (1) a unique exogenous policy shock-banning taxi-hailing app with an embedded GPS system, and (2) a measure of nonrecurring congestion avoidance, enabled by the real-time sensor data, which serves as a proxy for GPS usag...
