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作者：Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：More firms than ever before are disclosing the provenance of their products, results of product testing, and suppliers' compliance with labor-practice norms in their annual reports, sustainability reports, and press releases, besides making such information available on third-party websites. However, collecting and disclosing such information is not only costly but also does not provide clear benefits. While the terminology is not yet standard in the literature, this study distinguishes supply...
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作者：Lee, Hau L.; Zhang, Hongtao
作者单位：Stanford University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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作者：Hsu, Vernon N.; Lai, Guoming; Liang, Guitian
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Jinan University
摘要：This paper studies an innovative agricultural partnership model in the dairy industry. In developing regions, farmers are constrained by limited resources, while it is costly for an enterprise to set up new facilities and raise dairy animals all on its own. Under the partnership model, dairy animals are raised by individual farmers during the maturing stage and then by the enterprise during the milking stage. This can lower the enterprise's investment cost, ensure milk quality, and also expand...
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作者：Chen, Yao; Chen, Fangruo
作者单位：Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：The markets for recovered products in China typically consist of both remanufactured and refurbished products. The government requires that the remanufactured product match the quality level of the new product, while no such requirements exist for the refurbished product. Furthermore, remanufacturing is a relatively new phenomenon in China, whereas the refurbishing industry is old, widespread, and largely unregulated. Compared to the new product, the two types of recovered products enjoy a cos...
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作者：Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：The UN Sustainable Development Goals are not optional. They are about survival. Reaching them requires focus and strong innovation. Operations Management is about designing innovative business models to allocate scarce resources. It therefore has the toolkit to help move the sustainability agenda, provided it strongly opts for studying relevant and pressing problems and proves its potential impact. This study argues that this requires innovation as well as a paradigm shift in how we look at co...
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作者：Kalkanci, Basak; Rahmani, Morvarid; Toktay, L. Beril
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable operations research to be relevant in the context of emerging economies, it needs to incorporate social concerns and conditions of underserved populations, with an emphasis on inclusion and equity. Especially important for addressing social concerns of these populations will be product/service innovation, process/busi...
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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：Chen, Shi; Zhang, Qinqin; Zhou, Yong-Pin
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Microsoft
摘要：We analyze a brand's disclosure of its supplier list to improve the suppliers' compliance with social and environmental sustainability standards. We develop a model of a buyer, a supplier, and an NGO; when a violation of the supplier occurs, the buyer and the supplier both incur penalties. Given that the disclosure influences the NGO's perception of the supplier and results in a different level of NGO scrutiny, the buyer decides whether to reveal her supplier. Our model characterizes the buyer...
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作者：Lim, Michael K.; Mak, Ho-Yin; Park, Seung Jae
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); University of Oxford; Yonsei University
摘要：We examine the operations, fairness, and social implications of fair trade certified products. We consider the market for fair trade certified products, which may serve as a substitute to a regular product. A fair trade organization chooses standards for the certification, namely, the (unit) premium and minimum fraction of fair trade raw materials, to maximize the total premium transferred to farmers. We analyze the operations of various stakeholders in the fair trade value chain, as well as t...
