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作者：Salvador, Fabrizio; Madiedo, Juan Pablo
作者单位：IE University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Global firms often attempt to utilize modular product architectures to ease the distribution of project work among subsidiaries. However, empirical findings on the effectiveness of this approach are mixed. Seeking to clarify this matter, we investigate the conditions under which modular product platform use is associated with cross-subsidiary distribution of project work. Through an in-depth case study of a global corporation, we find that a firm's ability to leverage modular product platforms...
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作者：Hong, Yili; Shao, Benjamin B. M.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：E-procurement platforms facilitate transactions between suppliers and buyers from all over the world. Over time, suppliers and buyers may develop familiarity from prior experience with earlier transactions. The literature has established that prior experience leads to better project performance. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of prior experience between buyers and suppliers in e-procurement platforms with a focus on the moderating roles of temporal distance and language difference...
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作者：Kasapidis, Gregory A.; Paraskevopoulos, Dimitris C.; Repoussis, Panagiotis P.; Tarantilis, Christos D.
作者单位：Athens University of Economics & Business; University of London; Athens University of Economics & Business
摘要：A common assumption in the shop scheduling literature is that the processing order of the operations of each job is sequential; however, in practice, there can be multiple connections and finish-to-start dependencies among the operations of each job. This paper studies flexible job shop scheduling problems with arbitrary precedence graphs. Rigorous mixed integer and constraint programming models are presented, as well as an evolutionary algorithm is proposed to solve large-scale problems. The ...
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作者：Koca, Esma; Valletti, Tommaso; Wiesemann, Wolfram
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：When releasing a new version of a durable product, a firm aims to attract new customers as well as persuade its existing customer base to upgrade. This is commonly achieved through a rollover strategy, which comprises the price of the new product as well as the decision to discontinue the sale of the existing product (solo rollover) or to sell the existing product at a discounted price (dual rollover). In this study, we argue that the timing of the new product release is an important-but commo...
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作者：Lee, Chung-seung; Cakanyildirim, Metin
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This study is motivated by a fundamental question among researchers: do price data correspond to a pure strategy Nash equilibrium of an estimated econometric model of Bertrand competition? The affirmative answer to this question is essential for validating the estimated model. Despite the extensive empirical applications of Bertrand competition over the last three decades, answering the question remains a daunting task for the researchers. This study takes a step to fill this gap, identifying ...
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作者：Ning, Jie
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Markov decision processes (MDPs) provide a powerful framework for analyzing dynamic decision making. However, their applications are significantly hindered by the difficulty of obtaining solutions. In this study, we introduce reducible MDPs whose exact solutions can be obtained by solving simpler MDPs, termed the coordinate MDPs. The value function and an optimal policy of a reducible MDP are linear functions of those of the associated coordinate MDP. Because the coordinate MDP does not involv...
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作者：Lu, Xianghua; Lu, Tian; Wang, Chong (Alex); Wu, Ruofan
作者单位：Fudan University; Carnegie Mellon University; Peking University; Ant Group
摘要：Payment management is an operations management challenge in online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. It is critical to control the cost of debt collection incurred in late repayments and defaults. We study whether and how a platform can leverage on borrowers' social connections and use automatic social notifications in regulating repayment behavior. In collaboration with a large online P2P lending platform, we conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the effect of social notifications ta...
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作者：Vedantam, Aditya; Iyer, Ananth
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Business users (suppliers) of information technology (IT) equipment often contract with third party remanufacturers (3PRs) for the end-of-use disposition of their used electronic equipment. Our goal in this research is to develop a model to analyze contracts consisting of an upfront payment (t) and a revenue share (r) between a supplier and 3PR, study their impact on disposition decisions, and explore the impact of 3PR risk-aversion and quality uncertainty on optimum contracts. We model a Stac...
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作者：Ales, Laurence; Cho, Soo-Haeng; Korpeoglu, Ersin
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of London; University College London
摘要：This study examines innovation tournaments in which an organizer seeks solutions to an innovation-related problem from a number of agents. Agents exert effort to improve their solutions but face uncertainty about their solution performance. The organizer is interested in obtaining multiple solutions-agents whose solutions contribute to the organizer's utility are called contributors. Motivated by mixed policies observed in practice, where some tournaments are open and others restrict entry, we...
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作者：Spearman, Mark L.; Hopp, Wallace J.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Throughout its history, the industrial engineering/operations management (IE/OM) field has relied heavily on axiomatic models and empirical studies of individual systems. But, unlike other engineering and management disciplines, it lacks a clear foundation in a descriptive science. Exceptional results like the famous bullwhip effect paper by Lee et al. (1997) hint at the powerful potential for a descriptive science of operations. But the very fact that such works are exceptional suggests that ...
