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作者：Lin, Mei; Pan, Xiajun Amy; Zheng, Quan
作者单位：Singapore Management University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：Two-sided platforms are often coupled with exclusive hardware products that connect two sides of users, the consumers of the hardware product (i.e., buyers) and the application developers (i.e., sellers). The hardware product in the platform business model introduces three important issues that are not yet well understood in the literature of platform pricing: potentially downward-trending production cost, product quality improvements, and consumers' strategic behaviors. Using analytical model...
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作者：Luo, Jianxi; Whitney, Daniel E.
作者单位：Singapore University of Technology & Design; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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作者：Shaheen, Iana; Azadegan, Arash
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：In this study, we explore firm-level perspectives from four types of organizations on how collaborative relationships are viewed, strengthened, and applied in responding to disasters. We focus on the perspective of four types of organizations operating at the forefront of the response to major hurricanes in the United States. These include government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the regional and local levels. We analyze qualitative evidence from managers and directors ...
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作者：Xu, Jianjun; Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri; Feng, Youyi; Chen, Shaoxiang
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：In this study, we consider a company that uses two channels for trading: long-term contracts and spot markets. With a quantity flexibility long-term contract, the buyer commits to purchasing at least as much as the minimum order quantity and is able to reserve capacity with the forward contract supplier up to the maximum order quantity in each period at a predetermined price. Through the spot market, the buyer can order or sell inventory at an uncertain future spot price without quantity limit...
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作者：Sen, Ravi; Choobineh, Joobin; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：The timing of vulnerability disclosures (by vulnerability discoverers) has significant implications for software producers and users. Immediate disclosure (before a patch becomes available) could result in exploits with subsequent harm to installed systems. Therefore, it is important to understand the determinants of this timing. In this study, we investigate the impacts of (i) the perception of the vulnerability discoverer about the software producer, (ii) the type of vulnerable software, and...
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作者：Park, Chong Hyun; Berenguer, Gemma
作者单位：Sejong University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：Inspired by the World Food Programme's activity in the post-civil war food crisis in Angola, this study proposes a systematic approach to address the location distribution problem in not-for-profit settings, where a limited volume of supply has to be allocated to different demand regions. The use of utility functions is key in our framework because it allows the decision-maker to establish priorities by representing the heterogeneous effects of distributing supply to different demand locations...
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作者：Anh Ninh; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Lariviere, Martin A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University
摘要：Most pricing and revenue management models have at their core an optimization problem; one needs to determine the optimal price or quantity to maximize a profit or revenue function. To ensure tractability, conditions that assure the objective function has a unique solution are enormously helpful. So far, several technical assumptions have been proposed for the continuous case, but comparatively little attention has been given to the discrete counterpart despite its prevalence in practice. Thus...
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作者：Shao, Lusheng; Wu, Xiaole; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Fudan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Driven by increasing costs in the traditionally regarded low-cost manufacturing bases (e.g., China), many firms have started to outsource their production to the regions of even lower costs (e.g., Southeast Asia). However, a new environment may involve higher cost uncertainty and severer information asymmetry. Motivated by these observations, we consider a sourcing game where competing firms choose between a supplier with transparent certain cost (type-C supplier) and a supplier with potential...
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作者：Li, Dong; Ding, Li; Connor, Stephen
作者单位：Loughborough University; Durham University; University of York - UK
摘要：This study considers the scheduling of limited resources to a large number of jobs (e.g., medical treatment) with uncertain lifetimes and service times, in the aftermath of a mass casualty incident. Jobs are subject to triage at time zero, and placed into a number of classes. Our goal is to maximize the expected number of job completions. We propose an effective yet simple index policy based on Whittle's restless bandits approach. The problem concerned features a finite and uncertain time hori...
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作者：Zhang, Hailun; Zhang, Jiheng; Zhang, Rachel Q.
作者单位：The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：The two fundamental decisions in the management of perishable inventory are how much new inventory to order and how much old inventory to clear before expiration. These decisions are known to be difficult due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose policies that are much simpler and easier to implement than existing ones in the literature. Our analysis revealed interesting insights into the circumstances under which perishability is negligible. This intuition not only leads to the construct...
