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作者：Altug, Mehmet Sekip
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Gray markets are created by unauthorized retailers selling manufacturer's branded products. Similar to international gray markets, domestic gray markets are a growing phenomenon whose impact on supply chains is not clear. We consider a supply chain with one manufacturer and several authorized retailers who face a newsvendor problem and a domestic gray market. While a gray market provides an opportunity for retailers to clear their excess inventory (inventory-correction effect), it also can be ...
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作者：Anily, Shoshana; Haviv, Moshe
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：We consider production and service systems that consist of parallel lines of two types: (i) M/M/1 lines and (ii) lines that have no buffers (loss systems). Each line is assumed to be controlled by a dedicated supervisor. The management measures the effectiveness of the supervisors by the long run expected cost of their line. Unbalanced lines cause congestion and bottlenecks, large variation in output, unnecessary wastes and, ultimately, high operating costs. Thus, the supervisors are expected ...
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作者：Tereyagoglu, Necati; Fader, Peter S.; Veeraraghavan, Senthil
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We examine the value of price commitment in a non-profit organization using individual-level purchases over a series of concert performances. To decide on a pricing policy, the performing arts organization must be able to accurately measure when each ticket will be sold and what type of audience will purchase the tickets for each performance. We use a competing hazards framework to model the timing of ticket purchases when customer segments differ in their valuations and arrival times. We show...
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作者：Ahmadi, Reza; Iravani, Foad; Mamani, Hamed
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：The practice of diverting genuine products to unauthorized gray markets continues to challenge companies in various industries and creates intense competition for authorized channels. Recent industry surveys report that the abuse of channel incentives is a primary reason for the growth of gray market activities. Therefore, it is crucial that companies take the presence of gray markets into consideration when they design contracts to distribute products through authorized retailers. This issue ...
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作者：Meistering, Malte; Stadtler, Hartmut
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：In practice, deterministic, multi-period lot-sizing models are implemented in rolling schedules since this allows the revision of decisions beyond the frozen horizon. Thus, rolling schedules are able to take realizations and updated forecasts of uncertain data (e.g., customer demands) into account. Furthermore, it is common to hold safety stocks to ensure given service levels (e.g., fill rate). As we will show, this approach, implemented in rolling schedules, often results in increased setup a...
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作者：Gu, Tiantian; Sanders, Nada R.; Venkateswaran, Anand
作者单位：Northeastern University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：This study explores how suppliers adjust their relation-specific investments (RSI) in response to the different risk-taking incentives provided by the customer firm to its CEO, during normal and transition periods. We investigate this relation using 17,553 customer-supplier transactions over the 1993-2013 period. We find strong evidence consistent with the risk-taking argument. Specifically, we find that an increase in the risk-taking incentives of customer CEOs leads to a decline in suppliers...
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作者：Li, Rong; Ryan, Jennifer K.; Zeng, Zhi
作者单位：Nankai University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：We consider supplier-facilitated transshipments for achieving supply chain coordination in a single supplier, multi-retailer distribution system with non-cooperative retailers. The previous transshipment literature has focused on coordination through retailer-negotiated transshipments and thus does not consider the supplier's decision-making. In contrast, in this study, we assume the supplier is an active participant in the system and we seek to understand how the supplier can facilitate the i...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Hora, Manpreet
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Organizational learning includes processes of creating, retaining and transferring knowledge and has implications for the performance and competitiveness of organizations. Given the knowledge-based view of resources inherent in management of technology (MOT), in this study, we adopt an organizational learning framework that considers knowledge to be embedded in three major components of organizationsmembers, tasks and toolsand the networks formed by crossing them. We present research related t...
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作者：Guan, Xu; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Wuhan University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This study investigates the interactions between a manufacturer's information acquisition and quality disclosure strategies in a supply chain setting in which the manufacturer privately knows his product quality but is uncertain about consumer preferences. We argue that the manufacturer should treat his information acquisition and quality disclosure decisions as an integrated process because these decisions can significantly influence a retailer's rational inferences about product quality and ...
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作者：Chau, Ngan N.; Desiraju, Ramarao
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University Nebraska Kearney; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：When network effects are important and technology is rapidly improved, this study explores the relative optimality of five product introduction strategies of a durable goods manufacturer: (1) replacement, (2) skipping, (3) a delayed line, (4) shelving, and (5) line-extension. Using a two-period analytical model, we show how the type of compatibility-either full or backward compatibility-and the magnitude of the network effect influence the manufacturer's preference for the above strategies. Ou...
