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作者：Xue, Ling; Song, Peijian; Rai, Arun; Zhang, Cheng; Zhao, Xia
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Nanjing University; Fudan University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Digital platforms can use application programming interfaces (APIs) to support third-party development of new apps and achieve growth at an unprecedented scale. However, there is also a dilemma between original new development and copycatting by third-party suppliers. Motivated by this tension, we examined how APIs provided by digital platforms may influence two types of third-party new app development: original apps and app copycatting. We also investigated how these influences are dependent ...
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作者：Arora, Priyank; Subramanian, Ravi
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：In the context of the mismatch between organ demand and supply, a statistic worth noting is that across the donor service areas in the United States, the average (median) percentage of eligible potential donors from whom no organs are recovered is 28.3% (29%). The socially suboptimal quantity and quality of recovered organs form the context of our study, which takes the perspective of the social planner that has an overall quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) improvement objective. We model the o...
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作者：Fard, Milad Keshvari; Eftekhar, Mahyar; Papier, Felix
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Every year, humanitarian organizations assign a sizable portion of their limited financial resources to procure, operate and maintain operating assets, without which service delivery would be nearly impossible. In this study, using vehicles to represent operating assets, we identify policies for sizing and allocating operational capacity to minimize the expected deprivation costs in a humanitarian development context. First, we develop a stochastic dynamic programming model, and then an effici...
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作者：Lee, Chihoon; Ward, Amy R.
作者单位：Stevens Institute of Technology; University of Chicago
摘要：This paper studies the effect of customer abandonment in the economic optimization of a service facility. Specifically, we consider how to jointly set the price and service capacity in order to maximize the steady-state expected profit, when the system is subject to customer abandonment and the price is paid only by customers that eventually receive service. We do this under the assumption that there is a high rate of prospective customer arrivals. Our analysis reveals that the economically op...
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作者：Chen, Yu-Hung; Jiang, Baojun
作者单位：National Taiwan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：The car-insurance market is plagued with problems of adverse selection and moral hazard. In-vehicle data recorders can collect massive amount of information about the drivers' driving behaviors and risk factors. This monitoring technology allows the firm to charge a premium based on the customer's recorded driving behaviors; this helps to reduce the driver's moral hazard. It can also allow the firm to set its insurance premium based on better estimates of the driver's risk factors, alleviating...
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作者：Guo, Hong; Jiang, Yabing; Lim, Arthur; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; State University System of Florida; Florida Gulf Coast University; University of Notre Dame; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Sabotage activities often raise controversies and regulatory concerns due to the potential negative effects on competition and social welfare. These concerns are amplified when firms serving complementary markets integrate due to the integrated firm's capability to engage in multi-market sabotage. We note that the integrated firm's incentive to engage in sabotage activities and the potential impact on social welfare has not been examined, and this drives the primary focus of our study. Interes...
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作者：He, Wen
作者单位：Hunan University
摘要：Many firms that practice overbooking are able to adjust capacity prior to the service time. This study proposes an integrated approach for a firm's overbooking and capacity planning. We formulate a static model that simultaneously optimizes the firm's capacity level and overbooking limit. We find that the optimal level of capacity with overbooking can be higher and lower than that without overbooking. This is because overbooking has both positive and negative effects on the marginal value of c...
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作者：Li, Yutian; Tang, Sammi Yu; Johnson, Joseph; Lubarsky, David A.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Miami; University of Miami; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Patient no-shows and late cancellations lead to clinic inefficiency, high clinic costs and low patient satisfaction. The two main strategies clinics employed to alleviate the adverse effects of no-shows are overbooking and patient appointment reminders. Developing effective overbooking schedules depends on accurately predicting each patient's no-show probability, while developing effective reminder systems requires a patient-level estimate of communication sensitivity. Current methods of estim...
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Kanglin; Fang, Xin; Yue, Xiaohang; Wang, Xin
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Singapore Management University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Motivated by Google's technology specifications on Android devices, we consider firms' decisions on production timing in a co-opetitive supply chain comprising a manufacturer and an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), where the manufacturer acts as the OEM's upstream contract manufacturer and downstream competitor. We consider the market acceptance uncertainty of key product designs. If a firm decides to implement ex post production strategy (PS), it can delay the production until the marke...
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作者：Cao, Qingning; Geng, Xianjun; Stecke, Kathryn E.; Zhang, Jun
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Tulane University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Fudan University
摘要：We study the impacts of retail bundling on a supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. The retailer orders a primary product from the manufacturer before demand uncertainty materializes, and can retail it in a bundle with a secondary product afterwards. Our findings reveal three effects of bundling. First, bundling can help a retailer mitigate the adverse consequences of demand uncertainty in the primary product and price-discriminate customers of the secondary product. Second, bundling...
