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作者：Moshtari, Mohammad
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics
摘要：Donors and governments are increasingly calling for more collaborative relationships between humanitarian organizations (HOs), to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian operations by exchanging information, knowledge, and resources. This study examines the relative efficacy of partners' characteristics (i.e., compatibility and resource complementarity) and partners' relationship management capability on collaborative relationships, incorporating mutual trust and reciprocal co...
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作者：Bolandifar, Ehsan; Kouvelis, Panos; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This paper studies the optimal component procurement strategies of two competing OEMs selling substitutable products. The OEMs outsource their production to a common contract manufacturer, who in turn needs an input from a component supplier. Each OEM may either directly procure the input from the component supplier, or delegate the procurement task to the contract manufacturer. We first analyze the OEMs' procurement game under a non-strategic supplier whose component price is exogenously give...
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作者：Katehakis, Michael N.; Melamed, Benjamin; Shi, Jim (Junmin)
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要：Small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including many startup firms, need to manage interrelated flows of cash and inventories of goods. In this study, we model a firm that can finance its inventory (ordered or manufactured) with loans in order to meet random demand which in general may not be time stationary. The firm earns interest on its cash on hand and pays interest on its debt. The objective is to maximize the expected value of the firm's capital at the end of a finite planning horizo...
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作者：Kazaz, Burak; Webster, Scott; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Artemisinin combination therapy, the most effective malaria treatment today, is manufactured from an agriculturally derived starting material Artemisiaannua. Artemisinin, the main ingredient in malaria medicines, is extracted from Artemisia leaves and used in the production of medicine for treating malaria. The artemisinin market has witnessed high volatility in the supply and price of artemisinin extract. A large fraction of malaria medicines for endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa is fin...
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作者：Toffel, Michael W.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers, and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the relevance of their research. I define relevant research papers as those whose research questions address problems found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of pr...
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作者：Starr, Martin K.
作者单位：Rollins College; Columbia University
摘要：The title of this paper might have been Knowledge Creation and Dissemination in the POM Domain. Instead, these accomplished authors (who shall be dubbed with honorable intentions as RSST) define the POM domain as Operations and Supply-Chain Management. Thereby, they leave no doubt that the POM domain spans the entire supply chain from shovels in the mine and seeds in the ground to recycled waste that is remanufactured and sold as new (as well as refurbished) products. RSST declare that sustain...
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作者：Roth, Aleda; Singhal, Jaya; Singhal, Kalyan; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Clemson University; University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：During the last 25years, the ecosystem of knowledge creation and dissemination in operations and supply chain management has improved remarkably. We now see OM as a vibrant community and an ecosystem in steady state. Yet, there are many opportunities ahead to revitalize our field and to expand our influence. In the spirit of continuous improvement, we propose that we focus our major efforts on accelerating the following four developments: First, having greatly expanded the domain of operations...
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作者：Li, Qingying; Guo, Pengfei; Li, Chung-Lun; Song, Jing-Sheng
作者单位：Donghua University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Duke University
摘要：We consider a make-to-stock, finite-capacity production system with setup cost and delay-sensitive customers. To balance the setup and inventory related costs, the production manager adopts a two-critical-number control policy, where the production starts when the number of waiting customers reaches a certain level and shuts down when a certain quantity of inventory has accumulated. Once the production is set up, the unit production time follows an exponential distribution. Potential customers...
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作者：Marshall, Donna; Metters, Richard; Pagell, Mark
作者单位：University College Dublin; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Operations Management (OM) research on organizational culture has to change to be able to inform practice. Currently, organizational culture research in OM is largely confined to narrow topical and methodological niches and culture is most frequently used as an explanatory variable in quantitative, survey-based research. We argue that the relegation of culture to this niche is due to self-imposed methodological blinders that hobble the OM field. We then present four research imperatives to rei...
