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作者：Modi, Sachin B.; Cantor, David E.
作者单位：Wayne State University; Iowa State University
摘要：Focal firms are struggling to improve their environmental performance for several reasons, including a scarcity of internal and external environmental resources. This study suggests that coopetition provides a boost to a focal firm's environmental performance. In particular, this research theorizes that a coopetitor firm's environmental performance has a spillover effect on a focal firm's environmental performance. This study also investigates the moderating role of a focal firm's financial sl...
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作者：Wang, Zhiyuan; (Eric) Zheng, Zhiqiang; Jiang, Wei; Tang, Shaojie
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Data sharing between upstream and downstream entities is vital for the success of a supply chain. However, distrust, privacy concerns, data misuse, and the asymmetric valuation of shared data between entities often hinder data sharing. This problem calls for a secure, efficient, fair, and trustworthy data-sharing mechanism. The key to such a successful system hinges on how to trace the data usage, determine the value of the seller's data to the buyer and then compensate the seller accordingly....
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作者：Nip, Kameng; Wang, Zhenbo; Wang, Zizhuo
作者单位：Xiamen University; Tsinghua University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：In this study, we consider a new customer choice model which we call the single transition choice model. In this model, there is a universe of products and customers arrive at each product with a certain probability. If the arrived product is unavailable, then the seller can recommend a subset of available products and the customer will purchase one of the recommended products or choose not to purchase with certain transition probabilities. The distinguishing features of the model are that the...
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作者：Tang, Shaojie; Yuan, Jing
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Personality quiz is a powerful tool that enables costumer segmentation by actively asking them questions, and marketers are using it as an effective method of generating leads and increasing e-commerce sales. We study the problem of how to select and sequence a group of quiz questions so as to optimize the quality of customer segmentation. We assume that the customer will sequentially scan the list of questions. After reading a question, the customer makes two, possibly correlated, random deci...
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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：Zhou, Shenghai; Ding, Yichuan; Huh, Woonghee Tim; Wan, Guohua
作者单位：Central South University; McGill University; University of British Columbia; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：We consider the classical appointment scheduling problem that does not have a session length constraint. The decision is to determine job allowances to minimize total expected weighted costs of waiting times of jobs and idle times of the service provider. In particular, we study a simple yet effective scheduling policy-the so-called constant policy, which allocates a constant job allowance for each appointment. Prior studies on appointment scheduling suggest a dome-shaped structure for the opt...
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作者：Johnsen, Lennart C.; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Otto von Guericke University
摘要：In laboratory experiments, we compare the performance of short-term and long-term contracts in a two-period supplier-buyer dyad with asymmetric cost information. We find that buyers tend to reject offers if the payoff inequality increases from one period to the next. We coin this dynamic form of inequity aversion as ratcheting aversion. We show that under short-term contracting, the buyer's ratcheting aversion limits the supplier's leeway to exploit information revelation in earlier periods be...
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作者：Guo, Xiaolong; Zheng, Shengming; Yu, Yugang; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Bundling strategies have been widely adopted by online retail platforms that use agency selling, where suppliers pay a commission fee to the platform to gain access and sell directly to consumers. We study the optimal bundling strategy for a retail platform through which two independent suppliers distribute their products. The suppliers first set their product prices, and, subsequently, the platform decides whether to offer the two products as a bundle and, if so, the price of the bundled prod...
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作者：Liang, Yong; Lu, Mengshi; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Tang, Runyu
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Data center networks provide the physical infrastructure that hosts Internet-related services and cloud computing. Designing data center networks properly is imperative for Internet-related service and cloud computing providers to gain competitive edges through cost efficiency and service quality. In this study, we formulate a mathematical programming model to address the data center network design problem, in which the objective is to minimize total operating cost and the service delay penalt...
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作者：Ketokivi, Mikko; Bromiley, Philip; Awaysheh, Amrou
作者单位：IE University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：We argue that in analyzing panel-data econometric models, researchers rely excessively on statistical criteria to determine model specification, treating it primarily as a matter of statistical inference. This inferential emphasis is most obvious in the common practice of using statistical tests (e.g., the Hausman test) to choose between fixed- and random-effects specifications, often ignoring the assumptions underpinning these tests. For instance, the Hausman test depends on the true within-p...
