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作者：Lang, Markus; Deflorin, Patricia; Dietl, Helmut; Lucas, Eric
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：Coordinating knowledge transfer within multi-plant manufacturing networks is a challenging task. Using a computational model, we examine when it is beneficial to create production knowledge within a central unit, the lead factory, and transfer it to geographically dispersed plants. We demonstrate that the knowledge transfer generates a trade-off between a positive cost-saving effect due to fewer adaptations in each plant, and a negative transfer cost effect due to the costly knowledge transfer...
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作者：Liu, Bin; Cai, Gangshu (George); Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：Henan Agricultural University; Santa Clara University
摘要：Advertising is a crucial tool for demand creation and market expansion. When a manufacturer uses a retailer as a channel for reaching end customers, the advertising strategy takes on an additional dimension: which party will perform the advertising to end customers. Cost sharing (co-operative advertising) arrangements proliferate the option by decoupling the execution of the advertising from its funding. We examine the efficacy of cost sharing in a model of two competing manufacturer-retailer ...
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作者：Wang, Zizhuo; Hu, Ming
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Toronto
摘要：Should capacitated firms set prices responsively to uncertain market conditions in a competitive environment? We study a duopoly selling differentiated substitutable products with fixed capacities under demand uncertainty, where firms can either commit to a fixed price ex ante, or elect to price contingently ex post, e.g., to charge high prices in booming markets, and low prices in slack markets. Interestingly, we analytically show that even for completely symmetric model primitives, asymmetri...
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作者：Arya, Anil; Gong, Ning; Ramanan, Ram N. V.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Melbourne; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Quality testing by suppliers has significant ramifications for downstream supply chain participants and retail consumers. This article focuses on such implications accounting for the fact that suppliers often enjoy discretion in quality testing and reporting. Under a discretionary testing and reporting environment, we show that a supplier can improve the market's perception of product quality by engaging in self-imposed production cuts. Production cuts dampen supplier incentives to engage in e...
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作者：Ding, Chao; Rusmevichientong, Paat; Topaloglu, Huseyin
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：We consider the problem faced by a company selling a product with warranty and under partial information about the product reliability. The product can fail from multiple failure types, each of which is associated with an inherently different repair cost. If the product fails within the warranty duration, then the company is required to pay the repair cost. The company does not know the probabilities associated with different failure types, but it learns the failure probabilities as sales occu...
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作者：Feng, Tianjun; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Fudan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This article studies the impact of modular assembly on supply chain efficiency. In the modular assembly approach, a manufacturer acquires pre-assembled modules from its suppliers, rather than the individual components, as in the traditional assembly approach. We analyze the competitive behavior of a two-stage modular assembly system consisting of a manufacturer, and a supplier who pre-assembles two components into a module. The firms can choose their own inventory policies and we show the exis...
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作者：Rusmevichientong, Paat; Shmoys, David; Tong, Chaoxu; Topaloglu, Huseyin
作者单位：University of Southern California; Cornell University; Cornell University
摘要：We consider assortment optimization problems under the multinomial logit model, where the parameters of the choice model are random. The randomness in the choice model parameters is motivated by the fact that there are multiple customer segments, each with different preferences for the products, and the segment of each customer is unknown to the firm when the customer makes a purchase. This choice model is also called the mixture-of-logits model. The goal of the firm is to choose an assortment...
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作者：Spearman, Mark L.
摘要：The Principle of Least Action is the foundational principle of fundamental physics. Application of this principle to the supply chain naturally results in an uncertainty principle linking variation in production to variation in net-inventory. The model also provides an easy means of determining the stationary distribution of net-inventory for a variety of control strategies. The formalism results in a control strategy that outperforms commonly used control methods.
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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：Mantin, Benny; Krishnan, Harish; Dhar, Tirtha
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of British Columbia; Ontario Tech University
摘要：Retailers are increasingly adopting a dual-format model. In addition to acting as traditional merchants (buying and reselling goods), these retailers provide a platform for third-party (3P) sellers to access and compete for the same customers. We investigate the strategic rationale for a retailer to introduce a 3P marketplace. Our analysis provides insights into the growing prevalence of 3P marketplaces. We show that by committing to having an active 3P marketplace, the retailer creates an out...
