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作者：Timoumi, Ahmed; Esseghaier, Skander; Kockesen, Levent
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Universite de la Manouba; Mohammed VI Polytechnic University; Nazarbayev University; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Retailers may collaborate with key suppliers to manage some specified categories. This collaboration is often formalized as a captainship arrangement between the retailer and her leading supplier in the category. The designated category captain assists the retailer with category management decisions. We show that captainship arrangements have the potential to generate a valuable information effect for the retailer: nonprice decisions by the category captain can reveal information that allows t...
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作者：Prasad, Sameer; Borra, Harish; Woldt, Jason; Altay, Nezih; Tata, Jasmine
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; University of Wisconsin System; DePaul University; Hanken School of Economics; Loyola University Chicago; DePaul University
摘要：Millions of workers in India who migrated to cities for employment have transited back to seek refuge in their home villages, causing disruptions in both cities and villages. This type of mass flow of migrants in transit represents a humanitarian crisis. Understanding migrant flow patterns and ways to ameliorate the conditions for migrants in transit is critical to managing the humanitarian crisis. In this study, we develop a model that examines the influence of migrant networks, inter-organiz...
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作者：Aydinliyim, Tolga; Cil, Eren B.; Murthy, Nagesh N.
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University of Oregon; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：Motivated by interactions with a major player in the aerospace industry, we consider the relationship between a supplier of specialty material forgings and a buyer that manufactures airplane components by extensively machining down these forgings as per component design specifications. Due to high material removal costs, the buyer prefers these forgings to be as similar in geometry and size to the component as possible, that is, near-net-shape. The supplier, by default, is unable to deliver su...
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作者：Hu, Shu; Wei, Mike Mingcheng; Cui, Shiliang
作者单位：Southwest Jiaotong University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Georgetown University; Georgetown University
摘要：In this paper, we study how provision of product information and/or market information affects buyers' and sellers' behavior and the resultant sales in an online marketplace. We first identify the Pareto-dominant equilibrium for the sellers' pricing decisions. Then, we study the impact of market parameters on the sales of the platform in equilibrium, under various information structures. We find that the platform's sales increase with the size of potential buyers but change nonmonotonically wi...
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作者：Zhang, Xiaoling; Zhang, Ke; Li, Shibo; Koenitz, Damien
作者单位：Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; Shanghai University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Shanghai University
摘要：Previous research from both marketing and operations management has shown that servicescape design, as an effective retail operations strategy, can significantly influence consumers' purchases. We extend this literature by investigating how fixture shape, an important environmental factor that has received little attention in previous studies, can influence consumer purchase intentions at retail checkout. Findings from a field study and three online experiments consistently suggest that tower-...
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作者：Gaur, Vishal; Osadchiy, Nikolay; Seshadri, Sridhar; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
作者单位：Cornell University; Emory University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; New York University; Emory University
摘要：Our paper is motivated by a manufacturer that sells a seasonal product through multiple retailers competing on an online marketplace, such as the Amazon marketplace. Demand and selling price uncertainty are key features of the online marketplace. Sourcing choices are differentiated by cost and available lead times-delaying shortens the lead time which is more expensive but yields more accurate information about future selling price and demand. Thus, ahead of the season, each retailer faces a c...
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作者：Arifoglu, Kenan; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of London; University College London
摘要：Theoretical research in marketing has traditionally focused on centralized brand-extension strategies where a brand expands its product offerings by controlling the design, production, marketing, and sales of new products in-house. However, luxury brands frequently use brand licensing as a decentralized brand-extension strategy under which a brand licenses its brand name to an external licensee that designs, produces, and sells the new product. Licensing is a time-efficient and cost-effective ...
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作者：Wu, Yiwei; Wang, Shuaian; Zhen, Lu; Laporte, Gilbert; Tan, Zheyi; Wang, Kai
作者单位：Shanghai University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Bath; Tsinghua University
摘要：Ships operated by a liner company are scattered around the world to transport goods. A liner company needs to adjust its shipping network every few months by repositioning its ships to respond to uncertain container shipping demand. Few studies investigate a liner company's multiperiod heterogeneous fleet deployment problem under uncertainty, considering fleet repositioning, ship chartering, demand fulfillment, cargo allocation, and adaptive fleet sizes. To this end, this study formulates a mi...
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作者：Fang, Zhen; Fan, Ming; Jain, Apurva
作者单位：Fudan University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Fudan University
摘要：Streaming media companies have changed how contents are consumed, produced, and delivered. This research develops a theoretical model on optimal content policies for streaming media companies in order to maximize customer engagement. We have the following interesting findings. First, in contrast to the results in prior literature that firms produce just enough programs and coverage intervals of the programs do not overlap, we show that placing programs closer can be a better policy for engagem...
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作者：Liu, Che-Wei; Yang, Mochen; Wen, Ming-Hui
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：As financial institutions increasingly offer robo-advisors (RAs) as a service, the empirical evidence on their performance, particularly during market downturns, remains limited. We study the impact of using RAs on investment performance during the 2020 financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. We obtain daily portfolio and transaction data of investors on an online investment platform. Besides making investment decisions by themselves, investors can also leverage an RA system o...
