2017

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• Skill Management in Large-Scale Service Marketplaces AI翻译
  作者：Allon, Gad; Bassamboo, Achal; Cil, Eren B.
  作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University; University of Oregon
  摘要：L arge-scale, web-based service marketplaces have recently emerged as a new resource for customers who need quick resolutions for their short-term problems. Due to the temporary nature of the relations between customers and service providers (agents) in these marketplaces, customers may not have an opportunity to assess the ability of an agent before their service completion. On the other hand, the moderating firm has a more sustained relationship with agents, and thus it can provide customers...
• Quantity Competition When Most Favored Customers are Strategic AI翻译
  作者：Aviv, Yossi; Bazhanov, Andrei; Levin, Yuri; Nediak, Mikhail
  作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Queens University - Canada
  摘要：Legal studies usually treat a policy of a manufacturer or retailer as socially harmful if it reduces product output and increases the price. We consider a two-period model where the first-period price is fixed and resellers endogenously decide to use meet-the-competition clause with a most-favored-customer clause (MFC) to counteract strategic customer behavior. As a result of MFC, the second-period (reduced) price increases and resellers' inventories decrease. However, customer surplus may inc...
• Design of the Reverse Channel for Remanufacturing: Must Profit-Maximization Harm the Environment? AI翻译
  作者：Wang, Lan; Cai, Gangshu (George); Tsay, Andy A.; Vakharia, Asoo J.
  作者单位：California State University System; California State University East Bay; Santa Clara University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
  摘要：A key attribute of a remanufacturing strategy is the division of labor in the reverse channel, especially whether remanufacturing is performed in-house or outsourced. We investigate this decision for a retailer who accepts returns of a remanufacturable product. Our formulation considers the cost structures of the two strategies, uncertainty in the input quality of the collected/returned used products, consumer willingness-to-pay for remanufactured product, the extent to which the remanufacture...
• Supplier Behavior in Capacity Investment Competition: An Experimental Study AI翻译
  作者：Hu, Shanshan; Wan, Zhixi; Ye, Qing; Chi, Wei
  作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Oregon; Tsinghua University
  摘要：Many manufacturers ensure supply capacity by using more than one supplier and sharing their capacity investment costs via supplier development programs. Their suppliers face competitive pressure from peers despite the reduced capacity investment cost. Although standard game theory makes clear prediction that cost sharing increases the suppliers' capacity choice and supply chain profit, the complex decision environment of capacity competition makes it interesting to test whether the theory pred...
• Dynamic Pricing to Minimize Maximum Regret AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Zhi-Long; Hall, Nicholas G.; Kellerer, Hans
  作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Graz
  摘要：We consider a dynamic pricing problem that involves selling a given inventory of a single product over a short, two-period selling season. There is insufficient time to replenish inventory during this season, hence sales are made entirely from inventory. The demand for the product is a stochastic, nonincreasing function of price. We assume interval uncertainty for demand, that is, knowledge of upper and lower bounds but not a probability distribution, with no correlation between the two period...
• The Effects of Agglomeration and National Property Rights on Digital Confidentiality Performance AI翻译
  作者：Massimino, Brett; Gray, John V.; Boyer, Kenneth K.
  作者单位：Cornell University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
  摘要：In recent years, instances of organizations failing to maintain digital confidentiality performance have greatly increased in frequency and monetary damage. While the global sourcing of activities in the development of digital assets is widespread, very little is known about how location-related factors may affect confidentiality outcomes. Addressing this, we empirically investigate two factors with rich theoretical bases and logical linkages to confidentiality: industrial agglomeration and na...
• Using Advance Purchase Discount Contracts under Uncertain Information Acquisition Cost AI翻译
  作者：Tang, Wenjie; Girotra, Karan
  作者单位：National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
  摘要：We study the use of advance purchase discount (APD) contracts to incentivize a retailer to share demand information with a dual-sourcing wholesaler. We analyze such contracts in terms of two practical considerations that are relevant in this context but have been overlooked by previous work that has largely studied the direct offer of APD to customers: the retailer's information acquisition cost and the wholesaler's limited information about that cost. The wholesaler's limited knowledge of the...
• On the Same Page? How Asymmetric Buyer-Supplier Relationships Affect Opportunism and Performance AI翻译
  作者：Villena, Veronica H.; Craighead, Christopher W.
  作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
  摘要：Research on buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs) has often focused on only one side of the relationship and, thus, has tended to overlook asymmetries. Yet, a buyer (supplier) may often deal with a bigger supplier (buyer) or one that has higher levels of trust, respect, and reciprocity. Therefore, we examined how two types of asymmetriessize and relational capitalaffect perceived opportunism and performance. We used dyadic data from 106 buyers and their matched suppliers gathered from a survey a...
• Processing Time Ambiguity and Port Competitiveness AI翻译
  作者：Cheon, SangHyun; Lee, Chung-Yee; Wang, Yimin
  作者单位：Hongik University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
  摘要：Container seaports play an important role in cross-border logistics as firms increasingly expand their global footprint in sourcing, manufacturing and distribution. Besides convenience of access to hinterland regions, a key metric for a port's attractiveness is its processing time, that is, its ability to clear goods within a consistent, predictable time frame. Due to differences in infrastructure, government regulations, and operating procedures, ports may exhibit different degrees of predict...
• Dual Sourcing in a Serial System AI翻译
  作者：Sapra, Amar
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  摘要：We consider a finite-horizon, periodic-review model for a serial system with two uncapacitated external suppliers. While one external supplier (regular supplier) ships to the most upstream stage, the other one (emergency supplier) ships directly to a downstream stage. For this system, with general lead-times we show that the optimal cost function is multimodular with respect to inventories in transit and inventories at different stages and obtain results that show how the optimal order quantit...