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作者：Jacobs, Brian W.
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：The relationship between emissions reduction and firm financial performance has been studied with mixed results. We consider potential sources of this ambiguity by examining announcements of voluntary emissions reduction (VER) from 1990 to 2009. We measure the stock market reaction associated with VER announcements to estimate the effects of time, emissions type, and whether the reduction was announced ex ante or ex post. We find that the market reaction to VER significantly decreased over tim...
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作者：Narayanan, Sriram; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.; Talluri, Srinivas
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We examine the role of knowledge diversity among unit members on an organizational unit's productivity. Utilizing a proprietary data set of corrective maintenance tasks from a large software-services firm, we investigate the impact of two key within-unit diversity metrics: interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity. We analyze the independent influence of interpersonal diversity and the interactive influence of interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity on organizational unit...
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作者：Vakharia, Asoo J.; Wang, Lan
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We consider a supplier selling to multiple retailers using one of two constant wholesale pricing strategies: a uniform wholesale price (UWP) vs. a retailer-specific wholesale price (RSWP). In line with the prior literature in economics, our initial finding is that as long as retailers are asymmetric, then (a) the supplier and less efficient retailer would prefer the RSWP strategy and (b) the more efficient retailer would prefer the UWP strategy. By examining the total profits of the supply cha...
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作者：Kalkanci, Basak; Chen, Kay-Yut; Erhun, Feryal
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hewlett-Packard; Stanford University
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作者：Karabati, Selcuk; Yalcin, Zehra Bilginturk
作者单位：Koc University; Koc University
摘要：We consider a pricing and short-term capacity allocation problem in the presence of buyers with orders for bundles of products. The supplier's objective is to maximize her net profit, computed as the difference between the revenue generated through sales of products and the production and inventory holding costs. The objective of each buyer is similarly profit maximization, where a buyer's profit is computed as the difference between the time-dependent utility of the product bundle he plans to...
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作者：Fang, Xiang; Ru, Jun; Wang, Yunzeng
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：We study a decentralized assembly supply chain in which an assembler (she) assembles a set of n components, each produced by a different supplier (he), into a final product to satisfy an uncertain market demand. Each supplier holds private cost information to himself, for which the assembler only has a subjective estimate. Furthermore, the assembler believes that the suppliers' costs follow a joint discrete probability distribution. The assembler aims to design an optimal menu of contracts to ...
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作者：Choo, Adrian S.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This study examines how time spent in problem definition affects problem solving in projects such as Six Sigma projects. Our hypotheses are tested using data collected from 1558 Six Sigma projects in a company. The results show evidence of a U-shaped relationship between the amount of time spent in the Define phase and project duration. This finding suggests that spending too little time on problem definition potentially causes poor problem formulation, which leads to deficient problem solving...
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作者：Moritz, Brent; Siemsen, Enno; Kremer, Mirko
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：This research analyzes how individual differences affect performance in judgmental time-series forecasting. Decision makers with the ability to balance intuitive judgment with cognitive deliberation, as measured by the cognitive reflection test, tend to have lower forecast errors. This relationship holds when controlling for intelligence. Furthermore, forecast errors increase for very fast or very slow decisions. We provide evidence that forecast performance can be improved by manipulating dec...
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作者：Kretschmer, Andreas; Spinler, Stefan; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; INSEAD Business School
摘要：School feeding is an established development aid intervention with multiple objectives including education, nutrition, and value transfer. Traditionally run by international organizations in low-income settings, school feeding programs have had a substantial impact in many less-developed countries. However, recent rethinking by the World Bank and the World Food Programme has prompted a shift toward long-term, sustainable solutions that rely more upon local resources, local capacity, and commun...
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作者：Cattani, Kyle D.; Souza, Gilvan C.; Ye, Shengqi
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Online customers expect to wait, sometimes for a delay of many days. At the fulfillment center, there might be an opportunity to fill customer orders earlier than the due date through a cross-docking transaction: rather than picking the item from inventory, the item moves directly from the receiving to the shipping dock, saving shelving and picking transactions. While cross docking reduces shelving and picking costs, it risks changing customer expectations for how soon a product will be delive...
