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作者：Keskin, Burcu B.; Bott, Gregory J.; Freeman, Nickolas K.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：Human trafficking, the exploitation of humans for monetary gain or benefit, is a widespread humanitarian issue that is typically sub-classified into labor and sex trafficking. In the last decade, sex traffickers have used online classified advertisements to advertise sexual services. Although these advertisements are visible to the general public and law enforcement, the volume of ads, the frequency with which their posting locale changes, and the use of obfuscation tactics make it difficult f...
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作者：Kumar, V.; Kumar, Subodha; Leone, Robert P.
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
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作者：Pun, Hubert; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.; Hou, Pengwen
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Tianjin University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Counterfeiting is a severe problem in many sectors. There are two types of counterfeits: non-deceptive and deceptive. While both types are important business challenge, deceptive counterfeit has an additional negative impact-customers have a post-purchase regret if they expect to purchase a real product but ended up with a fake. The focus of this study is on the setting that relates to deceptive counterfeits. Our paper is one of the first that examines the effectiveness of blockchain as a solu...
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作者：Youn, Seokjun; Heim, Gregory R.; Kumar, Subodha; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：University of Arizona; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This study explores whether and how lower variations in clinical practice relate to hospital operational performance. This relation is critical to the overall search for pathways that will allow the healthcare industry to bend the cost curve, implying significant implications for practice and regulators. We define practice variation as all variation not resulting from patient mix and construct a novel measure using inpatient discharge data for each patient cohort having an identical medical co...
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作者：Sahinyazan, Feyza G.; Rancourt, Marie-Eve; Verter, Vedat
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Aid organizations choose their service providers through reverse auctions to decrease their operational costs, and many of them award the contracts to the lowest bidders, which often leads to aggressive bidding practices and compromised service quality. This is known as the abnormally low bids (ALBs) problem in public procurement. An ALB is defined as an unrealistically low bid submitted to win an auction, an amount at which the auctioned service cannot be provided reliably. The current litera...
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作者：Deng, Qiyuan; Fang, Xin; Lim, Yun Fong
作者单位：The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Singapore Management University
摘要：The growing population in cities and booming e-commerce activities create huge demand for urban last-mile delivery, exerting intense pressure on the cities' well-being. To keep congestion and pollution under control, a consolidator can operate an urban consolidation center (UCC) to bundle shipments from multiple carriers before the last-mile delivery. Alternatively, the consolidator can operate a peer-to-peer platform for the carriers to share delivery capacity. We provide guidance for the con...
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作者：Bendoly, Elliot; Tang, Christopher S.
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作者：Fayezi, Sajad; Benstead, Amy; Gold, Stefan; Klassen, Robert; Van Wassenhove, Luk
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland; University of Manchester; Universitat Kassel; Western University (University of Western Ontario); INSEAD Business School
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作者：Lucker, Florian; Chopra, Sunil; Seifert, Ralf W.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; Northwestern University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：We focus on the optimal use of risk mitigation inventory (RMI) and reserve capacity to manage disruption risk in serial multi-stage supply chains where product transformation occurs at each stage. We find that under reasonable conditions it is better to hold more RMI downstream than upstream even when the upstream holding costs are lower. We also find that it is often optimal to hold more reserve capacity downstream than upstream. While in one-stage supply chains RMI and reserve capacity alway...
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作者：Wang, Jue
作者单位：Queens University - Canada
摘要：We investigate the optimal Bayesian dynamic pricing and demand learning policy over short selling horizons, where the pricing decisions are time-sensitive. The seller fine-tunes the price near an incumbent price in order to maximize the total revenue. The existing literature focuses on policies that are asymptotically optimal, that is, near optimal when the selling horizons are sufficiently long, but little is known about the optimal Bayesian policies, especially over short horizons. We formul...
