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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：Feldman, Jacob; Paul, Alice
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Brown University
摘要：We study the classic assortment optimization problem in which a retailer seeks the revenue maximizing set of products to offer to each arriving customer. This study relates two variants of this assortment problem: the space constrained assortment problem, in which the retailer has a limit on the total space of the offered assortment, and the fixed cost assortment problem, in which the retailer incurs a fixed cost for each offered product. In particular, we develop an approximation scheme for t...
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作者：Jin, Yannan; Hu, Qiying; Kim, Sang Won; Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Fudan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Supplier development and supplier integration are two deeply interconnected strategic tools that manufacturers often employ to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of their supply chains. This paper studies the interaction of these two strategic decisions in a competitive environment. Specifically, we consider a duopoly model where two supply chains, each consisting of one manufacturer and one supplier, sell substitutable products in the market. Each manufacturer orders components from i...
