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作者：Chintapalli, Prashant; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Besides using earmark budget to support farmer cost subsidies, governments in many developing countries use minimum support price (MSP) as an alternative subsidy scheme to (i) safeguard farmers' incomes against vagaries in crop price and (ii) ensure sufficient crop production. Among different MSP schemes, we focus on the credit-based MSP scheme under which a government will not take any possession of a crop; instead, it will credit farmers if the prevailing market price is below the prespecifi...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G., Jr.; Mithas, Sunil; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; Dartmouth College; University of Houston System; University of Houston
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作者：Gaimon, Cheryl; Carrillo, Janice
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper focuses on the critical roles of knowledge workers when a firm pursues a major innovation project. In this context, we consider knowledge workers as those who contribute to a firm's performance at the executive, management, and technical specialist levels. Technical specialists include persons with advanced skills in engineering, analytics, statistics, science, and economics. By analyzing a series of case studies and personal interviews, we demonstrate that alignment (i.e., coordina...
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作者：Sunar, Nur; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
摘要：Many parts of the world are experiencing extreme weather events, energy poverty, food insecurity, and lack of access to basic healthcare. Moreover, concerns over socioeconomic, gender, and racial inequalities are growing. These socially relevant issues are ripe for analysis and improvement using an operations management lens. In this paper, we review some of the relevant research advancements made in the last decade, and identify future research directions on these important topics. In particu...
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作者：Roy, Debjit; Spiliotopoulou, Eirini; de Vries, Jelle
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Tilburg University
摘要：Smart technologies and increased data availability enable restaurateurs to gather more information about customers and their behavior. These data can be combined with data from other sources to make a wide range of strategic and operational restaurant decisions, and can therefore generate tremendous value for restaurants and their customers. This study focuses on discussing the most promising research opportunities in restaurant operations that leverage data analytics. In particular, we focus ...
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作者：Stekelorum, Rebecca; Gupta, Shivam; Laguir, Issam; Kumar, Sameer; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Universite de Lorraine; Montpellier Business School; University of St Thomas Minnesota; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：The Covid-19 pandemic is triggering several supply chain disruptions that have a tremendous impact on firms' activities. Consequently, firms have pushed suppliers to develop their disruption orientation through the exchange of information and collaboration with the aim to enhance their own performance. Although this is important from the industry perspective, relationships among the focal firm's disruption orientation, the suppliers' disruption orientation, and the focal firm's performances ha...
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作者：Cao, Kaiying; Choi, Tsan-Ming
作者单位：Hainan University; National Taiwan University
摘要：To retain old customers and promote sales, firms offer trade-in programs in which consumers bring in an old product and receive a trade-in rebate when buying a new one. However, after buying the new product, the consumer who has traded in (the trade-in consumer) may return the new product and claim a refund for it if she/he is not satisfied with it. In this situation, under a full-trade-in-return (FTR) policy, trade-in consumers receive a generous refund that includes a trade-in-rebate for the...
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作者：Mantena, Ravi; Saha, Rajib L.
作者单位：University of Rochester; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Market share contracts, a form of loyalty discounts, where the discount is contingent on the buyer meeting or exceeding a target share of total procurement, are used in many business to business (B2B) settings. We study the impact of such contracts on demand allocation, prices, and welfare in a setting where a single central B2B buyer procures multiple units of a product on behalf of a set of users with heterogeneous preferences. We find that linear pricing creates a demand distortion, which g...
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作者：Cezik, Tolga; Graves, Stephen C.; Liu, Amy C.
作者单位：Amazon.com; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Online retail fulfillment is increasingly performed by semiautomated fulfillment systems in which inventory is stored in mobile pods that are moved by robotic drives. In this paper, we develop a model that explores the benefits of velocity-based stowage policies for semiautomated fulfillment systems, also known as robotic mobile fulfillment systems. The stowage policies decide which pods to replenish with the received inventory. Specifically, we model policies that account for the velocity of ...
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作者：Gao, Xiangyu; Zhang, Huanan
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：We consider a periodic-review multiproduct inventory system where customers' purchasing decisions are affected by the product availabilities. Demands need to be learned on the fly, through the partial and censored feedback of customers. For this learning problem, if one ignores the inventory dynamic and treats it as a multiarmed bandit problem and directly applies some existing algorithms, for example, the upper confidence bound (UCB) algorithm, the convergence can be extremely slow due to the...
