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作者：Karimi, Amir; Mishra, Anant; Natarajan, Karthik V.; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among end clients. In developing countries, significant resource constraints hamper the effective and efficient delivery of health commodities, leading to supply chain failures such as stock-outs. While the prevalence of commodity stock-outs is well-acknowledged, there is little by way of systematic and rigorous empirical research that sheds light on the factors that drive such stock-outs in developing co...
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作者：Xiao, Shengsheng; Ho, Yi-Chun (Chad); Che, Hai
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; George Washington University
摘要：In online crowdfunding markets, backers face high uncertainty about the quality of a campaign. To mitigate such uncertainty, crowdfunding platforms often allow campaign creators to post communicative messages-that is, campaign updates and creator comments-to dynamically disclose further information about the campaigns. In addition, previous funding transactions of ongoing campaigns are made publicly available, giving rise to herding among backers. In this research, we aim to understand how com...
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作者：Mehrotra, Mili; Schmidt, William
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Cornell University
摘要：Companies that experience a disruption in their supply chain often face a difficult decision-either accept the information that they have regarding the duration of the disruption, or invest in collecting better information. This choice is not clear since better information may not be attainable, and if it is attainable, it may not improve operational decision-making. In light of this dilemma, we collaborate with a multinational division of a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm to develop stochastic...
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作者：Wang, Wei-Lin; Vakratsas, Demetrios
作者单位：Ontario Tech University; McGill University
摘要：Although extant literature has argued for both positive and negative effects of product line length on choice, i.e. a dual impact, such a possibility has not been empirically investigated. This is the first study to address this issue, using a multiple discrete choice model for horizontally differentiated goods. The authors argue that the dual impact of product line length is due to competing effects of the two constituent dimensions of product line structure: a positive effect of product line...
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作者：Zheng, Quan; Pan, Xiajun Amy; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Conventional wisdom suggests that by including a decoy product in the choice set for consumers, a firm can drive consumers to select more profitable non-decoy products. Explanations offered to explain such outcomes are rooted in the psychology of consumer behavior. A scan of retail practice, however, indicates that decoys might also be included in a product assortment for economic reasons. For example, products with very low sales potential are often included in offerings by bricks-and-mortar ...
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作者：Chakravarty, Amiya K.
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：Agencies that provide relief to disaster survivors raise funds from diversified sources, such as foundations, private donors, and lenders. The output of a relief operation, such as lives saved, is a function of several factors: disaster intensity, relief agency's effectiveness, and the size of donor fund. In an uncertain funding environment with delays, a stop-gap loan can help decrease deprivation at the onset of disaster. When funding materializes, surplus fund net of loan and interest facil...
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作者：Li, Zhaolin; Kirshner, Samuel N.
作者单位：University of Sydney; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：We analyze a salesforce principal-agent model where both the firm and sales agent have limited information on the effort-dependent demand distribution, creating two-sided ambiguity. Under the max-min decision criteria, the firm offers a contract to the agent who exerts unobservable effort to influence the demand distribution. We formulate the problem as a semi-infinite program and use the agent's shadow prices to construct the least expensive contract. Next, we use the least expensive contract...
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作者：Ding, Ying; Tu, Yanping; Pu, Jingchuan; Qiu, Liangfei
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Peking University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：The operations management literature has recently begun to analyze how novel data sources help practitioners better understand product demand. We extend this stream of research by analyzing how air quality, a prominent environmental factor that has received little attention in prior studies, can impact product demand. Specifically, we examine how air quality affects the demand for different product color options, and find a greater demand for blue-color product option on air-polluted days (vs....
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作者：Guda, Harish; Dawande, Milind; Janakiraman, Ganesh; Rajapakshe, Tharanga
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：The goals of the guaranteed support price (GSP) scheme, adopted by several developing countries to support their farmers and the underprivileged population, are threefold: (a) as a supply-side incentive, to ensure high output from the farmers, (b) as a demand-side provisioning tool, to subsidize the consumption needs of the poor, and (c) to maintain an adequate amount of foodgrains as reserve stock, to mitigate the adverse effects of yield uncertainty (food security). We offer analytically sup...
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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 ...
