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作者：Shao, Lusheng; Wang, Derui; Wu, Xiaole
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Fudan University
摘要：Many agricultural commodities are traded in both forward and spot markets. This paper studies the interplay of random yield and forward market in a hybrid market with spot and forward transactions. We examine two main questions: (a) How does yield uncertainty (yield risk and yield correlation) affect the equilibrium outcome in this hybrid market? (b) How does the existence of a forward market influence the firms' strategic behaviors and spot price volatility, and how does yield uncertainty med...
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作者：Gour, Alekh; Aggarwal, Shikha; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Goa Institute of Management; Goa Institute of Management; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Governments and healthcare organizations increasingly pay attention to social media for handling a disease outbreak. The institutions and organizations need information support to gain insights into the situation and act accordingly. Currently, they primarily rely on ground-level data, collecting which is a long and cumbersome process. Social media data present immense opportunities to use ground data quickly and effectively. Governments and HOs can use these data in launching rapid and speedy...
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作者：Geng, Xin; Krishnan, Harish; Sohoni, Milind G.
作者单位：University of Miami; University of British Columbia; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Business rivals often collaborate on specific aspects of their operations in order to achieve cost efficiency. To better understand and manage such an operational collaboration, we formulate a multi-stage duopoly competition model to study the strategic and welfare implications of a cost-reducing cooperation between competing firms. Without any additional agreement beyond the collaborative effort in deterministic cost reduction, we characterize intuitive conditions under which there exists a u...
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作者：Si, Haijian; Kavadias, Stylianos; Loch, Christoph
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：As innovation is critical in driving growth and competitiveness, companies establish innovation (or new product) portfolio processes to select the right innovation projects that are allocated the necessary resources. These processes have attracted considerable interest from both academics and practice. However, the results of innovation portfolio management processes are widely perceived as unsatisfactory. This study provides a systematic overview of portfolio management approaches and researc...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G.; Lopez, Jose; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dartmouth College
摘要：Business platforms have become widespread in business to consumer (B2C) markets and their adoption is on the rise in the business to business (B2B) world. However, our understanding of platform adoption in B2B is less developed than for B2C. In the few cases where B2B platforms have been explicitly examined, it is often assumed that they can be understood using principles developed from the study of B2C platforms. However, the two types of platforms have important differences that often requir...
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作者：De-Arteaga, Maria; Feuerriegel, Stefan; Saar-Tsechansky, Maytal
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Munich
摘要：The extensive adoption of business analytics (BA) has brought financial gains and increased efficiencies. However, these advances have simultaneously drawn attention to rising legal and ethical challenges when BA inform decisions with fairness implications. As a response to these concerns, the emerging study of algorithmic fairness deals with algorithmic outputs that may result in disparate outcomes or other forms of injustices for subgroups of the population, especially those who have been hi...
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作者：Youn, Seokjun; Geismar, H. Neil; Pinedo, Michael
作者单位：University of Arizona; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; New York University
摘要：This study reviews the research on planning and scheduling in healthcare published in Production and Operations Management (POM) and other prestigious operations management journals over the past 30 years, identifies trending topics, and discusses opportunities for future research. Specifically, we categorize the capacity planning literature into three problem contexts: (a) hospital units and operating rooms, (b) outpatient clinics, and (c) broader healthcare networks. We further classify the ...
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作者：Guo, Xiaolong; Cheng, Lihong; Yu, Yugang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：To protect soil quality for sustainable development and raise farmers' incomes, agricultural firms are increasingly developing green and efficient raw materials (GRMs) that can improve crop yields and reduce soil damage compared to TRMs. However, farmers have heterogeneity in both the trust in agricultural information and sustainable development attitudes, leading to underestimation of the value of GRMs. This paper explores the optimal subsidy policy of the government to promote GRMs consideri...
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作者：Yang, Xufeng; Jiao, Wen; Zhang, Juliang; Yan, Hong
作者单位：Beijing Jiaotong University; University of Exeter; Zhejiang Shuren University
摘要：This work explores the admission and capacity allocation for a leasing system with two types of equipment and three kinds of batch demands: elementary specified, premium specified, and unspecified demands. The demands arrive following mutually independent Poisson processes, and the rental duration of equipment follows a negative exponential distribution. The lessor can satisfy partially the specified demands with the required type of equipment and satisfy partially the unspecified demands with...
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作者：Xie, Xiaodan; Aros-Vera, Felipe
作者单位：Procter & Gamble; University System of Ohio; Ohio University
摘要：We map the organized sex trafficking networks (STNs) into a network flow model and develop an interdependent network interdiction model (NIM) to disrupt such networks. Our model considers the interdependence between the information and physical victim networks and reformulates the problem using duality theory. Our NIM provides a clear strategy for interdicting STNs. Namely, it determines when to monitor (i.e., gather information) or arrest the criminals to maximize the impact of the interdicti...
