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• Design Improvements for Message Propagation in Malleable Social Networks AI翻译
  作者：Gopal, Ram; Hidaji, Hooman; Patterson, Raymond A.; Rolland, Erik; Zhdanov, Dmitry
  作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Alberta; University of Calgary; University of California System; University of California Merced
  摘要：This study presents the formal problem definition and computational analysis of the network design improvements for idea and message propagation in both enterprise and consumer social networks (ESN and CSN, respectively). Message propagation in social networks is impacted by how messages are seeded in the network, and by propagation characteristics of the network topology itself. It has been recognized that the propagation properties of these networks can be actively influenced by network desi...
• Product Design Awards and The Market Value of The Firm AI翻译
  作者：Xia, Yusen; Singhal, Vinod R.; Zhang, G. Peter
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
  摘要：Product design has increasingly been recognized as an important source of competitive advantage. This study empirically estimates the impact of effective design on the market value of the firm. We use a firm's receipt of a product design award as a proxy for its design effectiveness. Based on data from 264 announcements of design awards given to commercialized products between 1998 and 2011, we find that award announcements are associated with statistically significant positive stock market re...
• Product Line Extensions and Technology Licensing with a Strategic Supplier AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Liwen; Gilbert, Stephen M.; Xia, Yusen
  作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
  摘要：In many industries, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must obtain critical components from a few powerful suppliers. To the extent that the OEMs are also concentrated, the interactions between the suppliers of critical components and the OEMs are strategic, and have implications for how an incumbent OEM chooses its product line and interacts with potential rivals. We demonstrate that, by adding a low-end product line extension, an OEM can induce a strategic supplier to offer more favorab...
• The S-Curve Effect of Lean Implementation AI翻译
  作者：Netland, Torbjorn H.; Ferdows, Kasra
  作者单位：Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); Georgetown University
  摘要：There is currently no theory that explains the pattern of change in a plant's performance as it implements a lean program. Does it improve at a declining, increasing, or constant rate, or in some other pattern? We use empirical data from the implementation of the Volvo Group's lean program worldwide to develop a grounded theory to explain this pattern. We find that the pattern roughly follows an S-curve shape: as a plant progresses in its implementation of lean production, its operational perf...
• Managing the Revenue of Sales Platforms: Insights into Service Fees AI翻译
  作者：Jia, Justin
  作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University
  摘要：Online sales platforms have grown substantially in recent years. These platforms assist sellers to conduct sales, and in return, collect service fees from sellers. We study the fee policies by considering a fee-setting platform, on which a seller may conduct a sale with a reserve price to a group of potential buyers: the seller retains the object for sale if the final trading price is below the reserve price. The platform may charge two types of fees as in current practice: a reserve fee as a ...
• When Does a Retailer's Advance Selling Capability Benefit Manufacturer, Retailer, or Both? AI翻译
  作者：Zhao, Xuying; Pang, Zhan; Stecke, Kathryn E.
  作者单位：University of Notre Dame; City University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：Advance selling (AS) from a retailer to consumers is commonly observed in practice. With an AS capability, a retailer has the option to sell in advance or not. Having the AS option seems to increase flexibility and thus profit for a retailer. However, we show that the AS option can hurt the retailer's profit as well as supply chain performance. We identify two thresholds for a product's marginal production cost. A retailer's AS option benefits both the manufacturer and retailer when the margin...
• Beyond Patient Classification: Using Individual Patient Characteristics in Appointment Scheduling AI翻译
  作者：Salzarulo, Peter A.; Mahar, Stephen; Modi, Sachin
  作者单位：University System of Ohio; Miami University; Villanova University; Iowa State University
  摘要：Scheduling patients involves a trade-off between the productivity of the service provider and customer service. This study considers how outpatient medical facilities can improve their appointment scheduling by incorporating individual patient information in the scheduling process. Specifically, we obtain data on patient characteristics and examination durations from a health clinic, describe how that data can be used to predict patient examination durations in the clinic's appointment schedul...
• Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation AI翻译
  作者：Drake, David F.; Kleindorfer, Paul R.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
  作者单位：Harvard University; INSEAD Business School
  摘要：We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected profit than a constant emissions price under an emissions tax, which contradicts popular arguments that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: (i) the firm's option not to operate, which ef...
• Self-Selecting Priority Queues with Burr Distributed Waiting Costs AI翻译
  作者：Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Kulkarni, Vidyadhar G.
  作者单位：Cornell University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  摘要：Service providers, in the presence of congestion and heterogeneity of customer waiting costs, often introduce a fee-based premier option using which the customers self-segment themselves. Examples of this practice are found in health care, amusement parks, government (consular services), and transportation. Using a single-server queuing system with customer waiting costs modeled as a Burr Distribution, we perform a detailed analysis to (i) determine the conditions (fees, cost structure, etc.) ...
• Optimal Policies for a Two-Product Inventory System under a Flexible Substitution Scheme AI翻译
  作者：Xu, He; Yao, David D.; Zheng, Shaohui
  作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Columbia University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  摘要：We study a two-product inventory model that allows substitution. Both products can be used to supply demand over a selling season of N periods, with a one-time replenishment opportunity at the beginning of the season. A substitution could be offered even when the demanded product is available. The substitution rule is flexible in the sense that the seller can choose whether or not to offer substitution and at what price or discount level, and the customer may or may not accept the offer, with ...