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作者：Xiong, Jie; Wang, Shuming; Ng, Tsan Sheng
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS
摘要：In this study, we consider a resource recovery planning problem under a public-private partnership. The local authority's problem is to determine the waste sorting scheme, and also a cost-sharing budget, to minimize her expected payout, subject to a requirement of economic feasibility of the private operator. Given the budget and sorting scheme, the private operator's problem is to site and operate resource recovery facilities, and his goal is to maximize his expected total profits. A salient ...
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作者：Blanco, Christian C.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：The content of climate change disclosures of large, global companies evolved from 2007 to 2016. Within that window, the same set of firms started measuring and disclosing their supply chain carbon emissions. Does carbon footprinting influence the nature and content of a firm's disclosure on the climate change risks that are expected to affect its business? We explore this question using more than 10,925 climate change disclosures collected by the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) fr...
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作者：Kim, Bosung; Kim, Sang Won; Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Park, Kun Soo
作者单位：Pusan National University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Northwestern University; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：We consider a sequential capacity allocation problem of a firm to its retail branches that sell the firm's product. The orders of the retail branches to the headquarters arrive sequentially, and each allocation decision has to be made before the next order arrives. The objective of the headquarters is to maximize the overall firm profit, that is, the total profit of all the retail branches. Each retail branch makes ordering decision independently by using private information about its local ma...
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作者：Sun, Haoyan; Chen, Jianqing; Fan, Ming
作者单位：Lehigh University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Over the years, online retailers have increasingly embraced live chat to improve customer service and facilitate transactions. We examine how online sellers' use of live chat influences their online traffic conversion into sales. Like brick-and-mortar stores, a fundamental task for online stores is to convert traffic into purchases, an important problem in retail service operations management. We argue that live chat can increase online sales conversion by performing the functions of informing...
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作者：Gambaro, Anna Maria; Secomandi, Nicola
作者单位：University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Energy sources and commodities exhibit high price risk. This risk is thus an important feature of operational models of the value chains for these goods. These models typically employ Gaussian-based representations of the evolution of this uncertainty. This approach facilitates the optimization of operational policies but is at odds with empirical facts about energy and commodity prices, which are better captured by non-Gaussian processes. We discuss this alternative modeling strategy, focusin...
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作者：Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Knuckles, James
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London
摘要：This study seeks to conceptualize supply chains that use funding from large donors or governments for long-term recovery following a disaster, or more generally, for economic development in a region. We call these development-aid supply chains (DASC) distinct from commercial or humanitarian supply chains. With little available formally on DASCs in the literature, we carried out a field study across five solar lantern supply chains in Haiti set up for recovery following the massive 2010 earthqu...
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作者：Chaturvedi, Aadhaar
作者单位：University of Auckland
摘要：Supplier non-performance is an ever present problem for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) buyer and past survey-based research has shown that increasing supplier competition adversely affects their performance. Using a reverse auction setting in which supplier competition is determined by number (n) of participating suppliers (bidders), we show how buyer's exposure to supplier non-performance risk is influenced by n. In particular, we characterize conditions under which supplier non-per...
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作者：Golara, Sina; Dooley, Kevin J.; Mousavi, Nasim
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Kennesaw State University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Emory University
摘要：Most automobile manufacturers use franchised dealers to distribute their products and to perform sales-related and after-sales services. However, the link between dealers' service quality and manufacturer performance is not well understood. Some studies suggest that these services' quality affects product sales, repeat sales, and brand reputation. Others posit that dealer services are a commodity, and their quality may only affect sales in the extremes. We constructed data representing sales a...
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作者：Naderi, Bahman; Roshanaei, Vahid; Begen, Mehmet A.; Aleman, Dionne M.; Urbach, David R.
作者单位：University of Windsor; University of Toronto; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of Toronto; University of Toronto; University Health Network Toronto; Toronto General Hospital
摘要：We study a generalized operating room planning and scheduling (GORPS) problem at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH) in Ontario, Canada. GORPS allocates elective patients and resources (i.e., operating rooms, surgeons, anesthetists) to days, assigns resources to patients, and sequences patients in each day. We consider patients' due-date, resource eligibility, heterogeneous performances of resources, downstream unit requirements, and lag times between resources. The goal is to create a weekly s...
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作者：Chen, Yu-Hung; Jiang, Baojun
作者单位：National Taiwan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This study develops a dynamic model to examine how a firm selling new non-durable experience goods can signal its high quality with dynamic spot-pricing or price commitment. Since consumers who buy and use the product will learn its quality, the firm's early period price will endogenously determine the number of informed consumers in the later period. Without price commitment, the high-quality firm prefers the pooling outcome in the first period, generating enough informed consumers to induce ...
