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作者：Davis, Andrew M.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：In this study, I investigate supply chain contracts in a setting where a supplier uses its inventory to directly satisfy a retailer's demand. These pull contracts have increased in popularity in practice but have not been studied experimentally. In a controlled laboratory setting, I evaluate a wholesale price contract and two coordinating contracts. The data suggest that the benefit of the two coordinating contracts over the wholesale price contract is less than the standard theory predicts, a...
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作者：Schmenner, Roger W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：This study names a pantheon of entrepreneurs and managers who have introduced a range of far-reaching productivity innovations throughout modern history. The thread tying together all of the innovations, in whatever sector of the economy one examines, is the theory of swift, even flow. The study argues why swift, even flow explains the power and long-lasting nature of these innovations and why other factors thought by some to affect productivity fall short.
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作者：Ru, Jun; Shi, Ruixia; Zhang, Jun
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; California State University System; California State University Fullerton; Fudan University
摘要：It is generally believed that store brands hurt the manufacturers of competing national brands while benefiting retailers. In this study, we challenge this notion by studying the impacts of a store brand when it is introduced by a power retailer. We show that a store brand may benefit the manufacturer when the interaction between the manufacturer and retailer is modeled as a retailer-led Stackelberg game. This phenomenon occurs because the store brand changes the nature of the strategic intera...
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作者：Brinkhoff, Andreas; Oezer, Oezalp; Sargut, Goekce
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Governors State University
摘要：This study examines the antecedents of supply chain project success. We first propose and test a model that describes the role of relationship-level factors (trust and asymmetric dependence) and project-level factors (between-firm communication and within-firm commitment) in determining supply chain project success. We find that project-level factors completely mediate the effect of trust on project success. We conclude that trust, despite being a stronger predictor compared to asymmetric depe...
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作者：Mani, Vidya; Kesavan, Saravanan; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：In this study, we use hourly data on store traffic, sales, and labor from 41 stores of a large retail chain to identify the extent of understaffing in retail stores and quantify its impact on sales and profitability. Using an empirical model motivated from queueing theory, we calculate the benchmark staffing level for each store, and establish the presence of systematic understaffing during peak hours. We find that all 41 stores in our sample are systematically understaffed during a 3-hour pea...
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作者：Glazebrook, Kevin; Paterson, Colin; Rauscher, Sandra; Archibald, Thomas
作者单位：Lancaster University; University of Edinburgh
摘要：Lateral transshipments are a method of responding to shortages of stock in a network of inventory-holding locations. Conventional reactive approaches only seek to meet immediate shortages. The study proposes hybrid transshipments which exploit economies of scale by moving additional stock between locations to prevent future shortages in addition to meeting immediate ones. The setting considered is motivated by retailers who operate networks of outlets supplying car parts via a system of period...
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作者：Jiang, Li
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：We consider a setting in which a manufacturer sequentially sources two components and uses reverse auction to select a supplier with the lowest bidding price for each component. The manufacturer chooses a quantity to order from each supplier and a price for selling the final product. We show that the interplay between the direct competition faced by suppliers in providing their respective components and the sequence whereby the manufacturer sources components influence system performance in a ...
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作者：Kemahlioglu-Ziya, Eda
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：This paper studies contract renegotiation in a stylized supply chain model. Two original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) sign fixed-quantity contracts with a contract manufacturer (CM) prior to demand realization. Contract renegotiation after demand realization allows the OEMs to use capacity that is more or less than what they contracted for. We assume that the extra profit due to efficient allocation of capacity is allocated to the supply chain parties according to the egalitarian rule and in...
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作者：Tucker, Anita L.; Singer, Sara J.
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
摘要：Management-by-walking-around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on organizational outcomes. This study examines an improvement program based on MBWA in which senior managers observe frontline employees, solicit ideas about improvement opportunities, and work with staff to resolve the issues. We randomly selected hospitals to implement the 18-month-long, MBWA-...
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作者：Breiter, Andreas; Huchzermeier, Arnd
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：Demand forecast errors threaten the profitability of high-low price promotion strategies. This article shows how to match demand and supply effectively by means of two-segment demand forecasting and supply contracts. We find that demand depends on the path of past retail prices, which leads to only a limited number of reachable demand states. However, forecast errors cannot be entirely eliminated because competitive promotions entail some degree of random (i.e., last-minute) pricing. A hedging...
