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作者：Bian, Yiwen; Yan, Shuai; Yi, Zelong; Guan, Xu; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Shanghai University; Shenzhen University; Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This study investigates the implication of government information provision on a farming cooperative's quality certification strategy in an agricultural supply chain. A farming cooperative has some private quality information of its product and can convey it via quality certification in the planting stage. A product distributor makes the order decision based on the farming cooperative's quality certification and can observe the exact product quality information only after the product is reaped...
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作者：Lei, Lei; Ru, Jun; Shi, Ruixia; Zhang, Jun
作者单位：Chongqing University; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University of San Diego; Amazon.com
摘要：We show that a two-product newsvendor problem with partial demand substitution is equivalent to the classical newsvendor problem with the same economic parameters but an adjusted demand-the effective demand. By comparing the adjusted demand and the primary demand stochastically, we examine the impacts of demand substitution on the expected profit and optimal order quantities. We demonstrate that demand substitution reduces the newsvendor's demand variability in the sense of convex order. Furth...
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作者：Sun, Geng; Cavusoglu, Huseyin; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; University of Texas System; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：A consumer-side innovation in online retailing is membership-based free shipping (MFS) in which a retailer bears the shipping cost for purchases made by members that have paid an upfront membership fee. On the supplier side, the agency model of selling, where a retailer allows a third-party manufacturer to sell his product on the site for a commission, has been gradually replacing the wholesale model, where the retailer buys from the manufacturer at a wholesale price and resells to consumers a...
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作者：Kyung, Nakyung; Kwon, Hyeokkoo Eric
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare operations. Nevertheless, particularly in the context of preventive care, little is known about how laypeople perceive and accept AI and change their behavior accordingly. Grounded in a solid theoretical framework of trust, this study bridges this gap by exploring individuals' acceptance of AI-based preventive health interventions and following health behavior change, which is critical for preventive care providers' operational and busine...
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作者：Schaer, Oliver; Kourentzes, Nikolaos; Fildes, Robert
作者单位：University of Virginia; University of Skovde; Lancaster University
摘要：In today's competitive market environment, it is vital for companies to gain insight about competitors' new product launches. Past studies have demonstrated the predictive value of prerelease online search traffic (PROST) for new product forecasting. Relying on these findings and the public availability of PROST, we investigate its usefulness for estimating sales of competing products. We propose a model for predicting the success of competitors' product launches, based on own past product sal...
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作者：Chen, Yuan; Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Liu, Yang; Pu, Jingchuan; Qiu, Liangfei; Wang, Ning
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Hangzhou Dianzi University
摘要：An increasing number of companies are using corporate online communities, a new information technology tool, to facilitate internal knowledge sharing. The corporate online community also offers companies a novel source to understand employee's behaviors such as voluntary turnover, an important part of workforce management. Little is known, however, about whether and to what extent an employee's voluntary turnover is related to their knowledge-sharing activities in the corporate online communit...
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作者：Du, Longyuan; Hu, Ming; Wu, Jiahua
作者单位：University of San Francisco; University of Toronto; Imperial College London
摘要：Reward-based crowdfunding is a form of innovative financing that allows project creators to raise funds from potential backers to start their ventures. A crowdfunding project is successfully funded if and only if the predetermined funding goal is achieved within a given time. We study the optimal timing of contingently placing a fulcrum in the random pledging process, with the potential of tilting it toward success, which would be a win-win for the creator, backers, and platform. Specifically,...
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作者：He, Long; Liu, Sheng; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：George Washington University; National University of Singapore; University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong
摘要：New technologies and innovative business models are leading to connected, shared, autonomous, and electric solutions for the tomorrow of urban transport and logistics (UTL). The efficiency and sustainability of these solutions are greatly empowered by the capability of understanding and utilizing the tremendous amount of data generated by passengers, drivers, and vehicles. In this study, we first review the innovative applications in UTL and several related research areas in the operations man...
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作者：Baron, Opher; Economou, Antonis; Manou, Athanasia
作者单位：University of Toronto; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：Strategic customers typically patronize service systems at a higher rate than the socially optimal one. Much literature has focused on inducing customers to join such systems at this latter rate. This entire literature considers nonidling policies that are the focus of queueing theory. We demonstrate that strategically imposing delays into service systems can improve the social welfare using the M/G/1 queue with orbit. This versatile queueing model has been extensively studied from a performan...
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作者：Hu, Qiaohai (Joice)
作者单位：Colorado School of Mines; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要：This paper studies whether risky borrowing will induce a supplier to expand capacity and thus mitigate a capacity underinvestment problem in supply chains. It demonstrates that the relationship between capacity and capital structure is not as simple as the existing literature suggests. If the supplier is very powerful, it will use a mixed capital structure and build less capacity than if it were equity financed. If the buyer is very powerful, the supplier will use all debt financing and overbu...
