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作者：Fan, Xiaoshuai; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We examine a (large) manufacturer's bribery decision (to bribe or not to bribe) arising from a procurement auction under disparate corruption pressure when another (small) manufacturer is known to offer the auctioneer (i.e., the intermediary) a bribe in exchange for the right of first refusal. We discover that the large manufacturer should refuse to pay bribes at all times in order to prevent from leaking its private cost information to the small manufacturer and prevent from intensifying the ...
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作者：Ma, Siqi; Hao, Li; Aloysius, John A.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Akron; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：A large body of literature has documented gender differences in prosocial behaviors, but little is known about the implications of different gender pairings of partner firm agents for supply chain performance. Using a production decision experiment which features asymmetric information and asymmetric risk sharing, we report three key findings. First, women are more collaborative than men in the role of both buying agents and supply agents. Second, information about counterparts' gender affects...
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作者：Chen, Boxiao
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：We consider an inventory control problem with lost-sales in a shifting demand environment. Over a planning horizon of T periods, demand distributions can change up to O( log T) times, but the firm does not know the demand distributions before or after each change, the time periods when changes occur, or the number of changes. Therefore, the firm needs to detect changes and learn the demand distributions only from historical sales data. We show that with censored demand, active exploration in t...
