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作者:Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu
作者单位:Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU); Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要:Cloud providers such as Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft are leasing their computing resources to various businesses providing them an alternative to investing in expensive hardware. Although recent information systems research has examined pricing-related issues in cloud computing, several important questions still remain. For example, how should buyers decide on the capacity portfolio of private and public clouds? What is the impact of the buyer's demand uncertainty on the capacity portfolio decis...
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作者:Yan, Lu (Lucy); Yan, Xiangbin; Tan, Yong; Sun, Sherry X.
作者单位:Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Science & Technology Beijing; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Seattle University
摘要:Despite our understanding that social media and online healthcare communities can help to eliminate health information asymmetry and improve patients' self-care engagement, we have yet to understand what happens when patients have access to others' health data and how patients' access to these shared experiences and opinions influence their health knowledge and perceived treatment outcome. In this study, we apply social information processing theory and incorporate (1) uncertainty of a treatme...
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作者:Soysal, Gonca; Zentner, Alejandro; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric)
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:In this study, we investigate how consumers derive value from having the option to use physical stores for their transactions in the DVD rental market. We analyze data from consumers who subscribed to an online-offline video rental service from a leading company that closed a large number of physical store locations during our study period. We quantify the extent to which offline store closures induced individuals to terminate their subscriptions with our focal company. We further examine how ...
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作者:Shi, Jim (Junmin); Zhao, Yao; Kiwanuka, Rose B. Karimi; Chang, Jasmine (Aichih)
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要:Sustainability and long-term prosperity are chronic challenges in the agriculture sector of many countries. To address such challenges, farmer cooperatives are formed as an innovative approach to improve the livelihoods of millions of farmers around the world. Inspired by real-life practice in the Kenya coffee industry, we study a class of stochastic and dynamic inventory models for storable agricultural products with random exogenous supply and price. For a variety of cost functions relevant ...
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作者:Handley, Sean M.; de Jong, Jurriaan; Benton, W. C., Jr.
作者单位:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:In this study, we develop a novel theoretical model of how the relationship between the buyer's use of power and the service provider's opportunism is moderated by the provider's perceptions of dependence advantage. Analyzing a dyadic dataset of 109 professional service relationships, we find that the extent to which the buyer's use of mediated and non-mediated power aligns with the service provider's perceptions of relative dependence is germane to the power-opportunism relationship. The noti...
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作者:Huang, He; Liu, Liming; Parker, Geoffrey; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Xu, Hongyan
作者单位:Chongqing University; Lingnan University; Dartmouth College; Tulane University
摘要:Procurement auctions are widely used by governments and corporations to solicit bids for services and projects. Such auctions involve significant risk for the buyer, because the delivered quality is highly uncertain. We examine a multi-attribute procurement auction combined with a performance-based contract. In this setting, suppliers submit bids which include both price and promised quality. After the buyer awards the contract to the winning bidder with the highest score, the supplier exerts ...
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作者:Villena, Veronica H.
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:The increasing number of scandals about supplier violations of environmental and social regulations has put multinational companies' (MNCs) reputations at risk. Customers make MNCs accountable for such violations, regardless of whether the violations involve tier-one or lower-tier suppliers. To address this pressure, some MNCs require their tier-one suppliers to comply with their sustainability requirements and ask them to cascade such requirements to their (lower-tier) suppliers. This researc...
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作者:Shen, Xiaobei; Yu, Yimin
作者单位:Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong
摘要:We consider the capacity allocation problem for a retailer with multiple suppliers and multiple demand classes. The retailer offers one seasonal product and reserves capacity from multiple suppliers. Customers in different classes are charged with different selling prices for the same product. We analyze the optimal capacity allocation policies with the following three types of customers: (i) patient customers, (ii) impatient customers, and (iii) customers with limited patience. To empower our...
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作者:Pervin, Nargis; Ramasubbu, Narayan; Dutta, Kaushik
作者单位:Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要:Even with the rapid proliferation of applications (apps) running on smart handheld devices, achieving success in mobile platform ecosystems is challenging for developers because of the heavily crowded marketplaces and easy substitutability of apps. In this study, we draw inspiration from biological ecosystems research and from the operations management literatures on software production, product management, and digital platforms to empirically examine the sustainability of newly launched apps ...
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作者:Akkas, Arzum
作者单位:Boston University
摘要:Product expiration is an important problem in the consumer-packaged-goods industry eroding profits and generating substantial waste. We propose that shelf space selection can be an operational lever to control expiration of perishable inventory. To this end, we first explain the conditions under which shelf space impacts expiration then develop a method to determine the appropriate level of shelf space which incorporates this impact. We formulate a shelf space selection problem for a single pr...