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• Addressing the Challenge of Modeling for Decision-Making in Socially Responsible Operations AI翻译
  作者：Besiou, Maria; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
  作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; INSEAD Business School
  摘要：Companies seek sustainability by combining the quest for profitability with the pursuit of social responsibility. Since socially responsible operations are characterized by the presence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals, applying classical optimization models would seem premature; we first need to capture the behavior of the entire system before attempting to optimize sub-systems to ensure that we focus on the ones driving the behavior of interest. Alternative methodologies are r...
• Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty: Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition AI翻译
  作者：Park, Seung Jae; Cachon, Gerard P.; Lai, Guoming; Seshadri, Sridhar
  作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Central Texas; University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Indian School of Business (ISB)
  摘要：This paper studies whether imposing carbon costs changes the supply chain structure and social welfare. We explore the problem from a central policymaker's perspective who wants to maximize social welfare. We consider two stakeholders, retailers, and consumers, who optimize their own objectives (i.e., profits and net utility) and three competitive settings (i.e., monopoly, monopolistic competition with symmetric market share, and monopolistic competition with asymmetric market share). For the ...
• Aggregating Smallholder Farmers in Emerging Economies AI翻译
  作者：An, Jaehyung; Cho, Soo-Haeng; Tang, Christopher S.
  作者单位：Samsung; Samsung Electronics; Carnegie Mellon University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
  摘要：The agricultural sector plays an important role in emerging economies even though most farmers are trapped in the poverty cycle owing to their smallholdings. Aggregating farmers through formal or informal cooperatives (coops) can enable them to: (i) reduce production cost; (ii) increase/stabilize process yield; (iii) increase brand awareness; (iv) eliminate unnecessary intermediaries; and (v) eliminate price uncertainty. To examine whether these effects will benefit the members of such aggrega...
• Repurposing Materials and Waste through Online Exchanges: Overcoming the Last Hurdle AI翻译
  作者：Dhanorkar, Suvrat; Donohue, Karen; Linderman, Kevin
  作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：Online material and waste exchanges (OMWEs) provide online channels to repurpose by-products, unused materials and waste from industrial and commercial facilities. Unfortunately, OMWE's also have challenges. First, sellers may have access to other disposal options and, as a result, may not fully commit to the exchange. Second, buyers can face high uncertainty about the product exchanged and the transaction being undertaken. Overcoming these challenges is the last hurdle to making OMWEs success...
• Municipal Groundwater Management: Optimal Allocation and Control of a Renewable Natural Resource AI翻译
  作者：Murali, Karthik; Lim, Michael K.; Petruzzi, Nicholas C.
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：We study a municipal groundwater management problem to determine optimal allocation and control policies in the presence of water transfer opportunities. We establish and characterize threshold polices governing export or import decisions of a given municipality. In the spirit of the Triple Bottom Line (3BL), we ascertain that exporting (importing) water through a water market defined by an exogenous export/import price is detrimental (beneficial) to both society and the environment within the...
• Incentive for Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing among Farmers in Developing Economies AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; Shanthikumar, J. George; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
  作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
  摘要：This study examines the peer-to-Peer interactions among farmers when both knowledge learning and sharing are available. We construct a stylized model in which heterogeneous farmers are endowed with their initial production capabilities and can post questions in the platform for help. A representative expert regularly monitors the forum and provides answers to the farmers' questions, but may be non-responsive sometimes due to the limited capacity. A knowledgeable core user (farmer) can choose t...
• The Economic Value of Market Information for Farmers in Developing Economies AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S.
  作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
  摘要：In developing countries, farmers lack information for making informed production, manufacturing/selling decisions to improve their earnings. To alleviate poverty, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and for-profit companies have developed different ways to distribute information about market price, crop advisory and farming technique to farmers. We investigate a fundamental question: will information create economic value for farmers? We construct a stylized model in which farmers fa...
• Conceptualizing Social Responsibility in Operations Via Stakeholder Resource-Based View AI翻译
  作者：Sodhi, ManMohan S.
  作者单位：City St Georges, University of London
  摘要：We seek to conceptualize social responsibility for operations management (OM) research to develop a social responsibility lens through which to view operations. To do so, we first consider the corporate social responsibility, sustainability, as well as the bottom-of-the-pyramid and shared value approaches and identify three challenges to developing such a lens: selecting the level of analysis, tackling the huge multitude of objectives, and developing theoretical underpinnings. We then propose ...
• Carrots or Sticks? Improving Social and Environmental Compliance at Suppliers Through Incentives and Penalties AI翻译
  作者：Porteous, Angharad H.; Rammohan, Sonali V.; Lee, Hau L.
  作者单位：Nike Inc; Stanford University
  摘要：Firms are increasingly looking to eradicate social and environmental non-compliances at their suppliers in response to increasing regulations, consumer demand, potential for supply chain disruptions, and to improve their social, environmental, and economic supply chain performance. This study develops a model of the relationship between the buyer's supplier incentives and penalties for the supplier's social and environmental compliance, and the outcomes in terms of reduction in supplier social...