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作者：Dong, Yan; Dresner, Martin; Yao, Yuliang
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Lehigh University
摘要：Using a unique, item-level data set, we examined benefits to downstream firms (distributors) from the decision-transfer component of vendor-managed inventory (VMI), the feature that distinguishes VMI from other information-sharing, collaborative supply chain programs. Our major findings are that the decision-transfer component of VMI adds significant benefits to the downstream firm in terms of inventory and stockout reductions above and beyond information sharing, and that these two benefits m...
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作者：Gao, Long; Li, Zhaolin; Shou, Biying
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Sydney; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We study a strategic information management problem in the export-processing trade, where the buyer controls the raw material input and sales and the producer is responsible for production. The production is vulnerable to random yield risk. The producer can exert a costly effort to acquire the private yield rate information and discretionarily share it with the buyer. We develop a sequential Bayesian game model that captures three key features of the systemendogenous information endowment, vol...
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作者：Ge, Zehui; Hu, Qiying; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：University of Shanghai for Science & Technology; University of Science & Technology Beijing; Fudan University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This study investigates firms' R&D cooperation behavior in a supply chain where two firms first cooperate in R&D investments and then decide the production quantity according to a wholesale price contract. By using a concept named contribution level that measures a firm's technological contribution to the R&D cooperation in the supply chain, we show that both firms can achieve win-win via cartelization only if their contribution levels are Pareto matched, i.e., when each firm's contribution le...
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作者：Kesavan, Saravanan; Kushwaha, Tarun
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：In this article, we analyze how retailers change their inventory investment behavior in response to macroeconomic shocks. We examine if service level, as measured by the ratio of stockout to inventory holding costs, can explain the differences in observed behavior across retailers. We use data on macroeconomic indicators and quarterly filings of US public retailers from 1985 to 2009 to estimate a dynamic model of short- and long-term impact of macroeconomic shocks on inventory investment. Our ...
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作者：Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Recent years have witnessed the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. In this study, we investigate the optimal procurement design with supply disruptions and heterogeneous beliefs between the buyer and the supplier. We examine the impact of information asymmetry on the supplier's belief, the control right of the backup production, and the verifiability of supply disruption. The belief heterogeneity creates speculative gains and losses because the buyer an...
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作者：Mamani, Hamed; Moinzadeh, Kamran
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We consider a continuous review inventory system where delivery lead times can be managed by expediting in-transit orders shipped from the supplier. First, we propose an ordering/expediting policy and derive expressions for evaluating the operating characteristics of such systems. Second, using extensive numerical experiments, we quantify the benefits of such an expediting policy. Third, we investigate a number of managerial issues. Specifically, we analyze the impact of the number of expediti...
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作者：Kremer, Mirko; Minner, Stefan; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Technical University of Munich; INSEAD Business School
摘要：The value of demand information underlies many supply chain strategies that aim at better matching supply and demand. This study reports on the results of a laboratory experiment designed to estimate the behavioral value of demand information. Relative to the commonly assumed benchmark of a rational risk-neutral decision maker, we find that decision makers are consistently willing to pay too much for the option to eliminate the risk of supply not matching demand. Contrary to intuition, we show...
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作者：Kurtulus, Muemin; Nakkas, Alper; Uelkue, Sezer
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); Georgetown University
摘要：This research investigates the value of category captainship (a management practice in which a retailer relies on a manufacturer for recommendations regarding strategic category management decisions) in retail supply chains. We consider a setting where the scope of category management is limited to assortment decisions and demand enhancing activities. We assume that the retailer selects a category captain among multiple competing manufacturers with privately known capabilities for driving cate...
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作者：Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Heinrich, Timo
作者单位：University of Duisburg Essen
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作者：Odegaard, Fredrik; Roos, Pontus
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Increasingly many firms have started to implement programs intended to improve the workers' health and the psychosocial work-environment, as well as other attributes of labor quality. Motivated by the need for evaluating to what extent the programs affect a firm's productivity performance, this study discusses a model for analyzing the contribution of labor quality attributes toward firm productivity. To assess the contribution from the labor quality attributes, we model firm productivity as t...
