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作者：Liu, Fang; Song, Jing-Sheng
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Duke University
摘要：Motivated by our experience with a global company, we propose and study the concept of a semi-centralized supply chain and analyze its coordination issues. We focus on a supply chain consisting of a home plant and a foreign branch, both of which are under the same parent company but have considerable autonomy. The role of the home plant is to provide a key component to the foreign branch with guaranteed service (required by the headquarters). Because of a high fixed order cost, the branch orde...
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作者：Wang, Zhe (Frank); Mersereau, Adam J.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We consider the inventory management problem of a firm reacting to potential change points in demand, which we define as known epochs at which the demand distribution may (or may not) abruptly change. Motivating examples include global news events (e. g., the 9/11 terrorist attacks), local events (e. g., the opening of a nearby attraction), or internal events (e. g., a product redesign). In the periods following such a potential change point in demand, a manager is torn between using a possibl...
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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：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...
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作者：Janakiraman, Ganesh; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：We study dual sourcing inventory systems with backordering and with stationary, stochastic demands. The two supply sources differ in their unit prices and lead times. We focus on the option of making costless returns to the cheaper, longer leadtime supplier. We show that the value of this option is zero. Our analysis leading to this result includes the derivation of several structural properties of the optimal policies for dual sourcing systems with and without the return option.
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作者：Xu, Su Xiu; Huang, George Q.
作者单位：Jinan University; Jinan University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study is the first proposing allocatively efficient multi-attribute auctions for the procurement of multiple items. In the B2B e-commerce logistics problem (ELP), the e-commerce platform is the shipper generating a large number of online orders between product sellers and buyers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers are carriers that can deliver these online orders. This study focuses on the ELP with multiple attributes (ELP-MA), which is generally the problem of matching the shipper...
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作者：Hao, Lin; Guo, Hong; Easley, Robert F.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：Unlike advertising in traditional media, a mobile platform's in-app advertising market exhibits two unique features-split structure of the mobile platform with a platform owner and an app developer jointly provisioning in-app advertising, and agency pricing for app sales. We develop a two-sided market model to analyze the role of these two unique features in determining the platform owner's optimal advertising revenue-sharing contract. Our results reveal an interesting N-shaped dynamic regardi...
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作者：Anand, Vic; Balakrishnan, Ramji; Labro, Eva
作者单位：Emory University; University of Iowa; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We demonstrate the need to view in a dynamic context any decision based on limited information. We focus on the use of product costs in selecting the product portfolio. We show how ex post data regarding the actual costs from implementing the decision leads to updating of product cost estimates and potentially trigger a revision of the initial decision. We model this updating process as a discrete dynamical system (DDS). We define a decision as informationally consistent if it is a fixed-point...
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作者：Shunko, Masha; Do, Hung T.; Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Vermont; Santa Clara University
摘要：What motivates the geographic footprint of the supply chains that multinational firms (MNFs) deploy? Traditional research in the operations and supply chain management literature tends to recommend locations primarily based on differentials in production costs and the ramifications of physical distance ignoring the role of taxation. MNFs that strategically position parts of their supply chains in low-tax locations can allocate the profits across the divisions to improve post-tax profits. For t...
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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...
