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作者：Urrea, Gloria; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.; Besiou, Maria
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：We study volunteer management at a charity storehouse operated by a large faith-based organization. The storehouse runs entirely on volunteer efforts. We investigate the role of volunteer experience and storehouse congestion in the preparation of orders using a multi-method approach. First, we conduct a field study to explore these relationships and collect data at the level of volunteers' teams. These teams can pair volunteers with either different levels of experience (mixed pairing) or equa...
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作者：Huang, Fengfeng; Guo, Pengfei; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Consider a situation where a service provider serves two types of customers, sophisticated and naive. Sophisticated customers are well-informed of service-related information and make their joining-or-balking decisions strategically, whereas naive customers do not have such information and rely on online rating information to make such decisions. We demonstrate that under certain conditions a service provider can increase its profitability by simply dancing its price, that is, replacing the st...
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作者：Pekgun, Pelin; Park, Minseok; Keskinocak, Pinar; Janakiram, Mani
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Intel Corporation; Intel USA
摘要：Through a behavioral study, we investigate buyers' strategic order forecasting behavior in a multi-period setting under a forecast accuracy-based allocation policy, where the supplier allocates (proportionally) more inventory to the buyer with the better order forecast accuracy in case of scarce supply. We developed an interactive game that simulates a supply chain in which one supplier sells a key component to two buyers, who in turn sell to consumers. In each period, buyers share forecasts o...
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作者：Gan, Xianghua; Feng, Qi; Sethie, Suresh P.
作者单位：Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We study a retailer's sourcing contract when the supplier's reservation profit (offered by his outside options) depends on his cost, which is privately known to only the supplier. An interesting discovery from our analysis is that supply chain coordination may be achieved despite the information asymmetry between the two firms regarding the supplier's type (i.e., his cost). This happens when the marginal contribution of the supplier's cost efficiency to the trade matches with the supplier's ma...
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作者：Guo, Hong; Zhao, Xuying; Hao, Lin; Liu, De
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Reward advertising is an emerging monetization mechanism for app developers in which consumers choose to view ads in exchange for apps' premium content. We provide the first economic analysis of reward advertising by studying the implications of offering reward ads, either by itself, or in conjunction with direct selling of premium content. We find that the condition for offering reward ads is surprisingly simple, and it is often optimal to offer reward ads jointly with direct selling of premi...
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作者：Scott, Alex
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Buyers often procure distinct goods and services from the same supplier. Accordingly, business exchanged in one setting may affect exchanges between the buyer and supplier in other settings. We study how business procured via online business-to-business (B2B) auctions is affected by business exchanged between the buyer and supplier concurrent to the auctions (concurrent business). Using two transactional datasets, one with auctions held by a large buyer of transportation services over a 4-year...
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作者：Yan, Lu (Lucy); Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Disaster relief organizations increasingly engage in social conversations to inform social media users about activities such as evacuation routes and aid distribution. Concurrently, users share information such as the demand for aid, willingness to donate and availability to volunteer through social conversations with relief organizations. We investigate the effect of this information exchange on social engagement during disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. We propose that the effect...
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作者：Sharma, Luv; Queenan, Carrie; Ozturk, Orgul
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Health care organizations have substantially invested in Health Information Technology (HIT) as part of an effort to improve quality. However, many hospitals fail to generate positive returns on this significant investment, based on reimbursements for quality measures through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given the high cost of lawsuits, we investigate if HIT adoption reduces lawsuits, and their attendant costs, as another consideration in HIT payoffs. We use operational transparency theory t...
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作者：Ji, Ran; Kamrad, Bardia
作者单位：George Mason University; Georgetown University
摘要：Using a contingent claims framework, we develop a single period model in the context of an exchange option in a discounted value maximization setting. Given this framework, we study the classic problem of determining stockpiling levels prior to demand realization when the procured/produced levels are subject to random yield variations. In this set up, both demand and yield variables are modeled as Wiener processes. A pure noise (zero drift) process initially models yield dynamics. Later, we co...
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作者：Balcik, Burcu; Silvestri, Selene; Rancourt, Marie-Eve; Laporte, Gilbert
作者单位：Ozyegin University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Universite de Montreal
摘要：We present a collaborative prepositioning strategy to strengthen the disaster preparedness of the Caribbean countries, which are frequently hit by hurricanes. Since different subsets of countries are affected in each hurricane season, significant risk pooling benefits can be achieved through horizontal collaboration, which involves joint ownership of prepositioned stocks. We worked with the intergovernmental Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management Agency to design a collaborative prepositi...
