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作者：Hora, Manpreet; Dutta, Dev K.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire
摘要：To achieve technology innovation and commercialization (TIC) success under complex, protracted, and uncertain product development cycles, entrepreneurial firms engage in downstream alliance partnerships with mainstream industry players. In this study, we examine two specific characteristics of the entrepreneurial firm's downstream alliance portfolio (depth and scope) and their impact on TIC success. Employing a sample of 728 biotech firms and their partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, w...
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作者：Bloomfield, Robert J.; Kulp, Susan L.
作者单位：Cornell University; George Washington University
摘要：Two laboratory experiments on a single-echelon inventory task show that inventory durability interacts with transit lags to create order volatility that exceeds demand volatility. Thus, inventory durability and transit lags cause managers to deviate from inventory decision optimality. Durability creates a large increase in order volatility because players adjust orders insufficiently to reflect current inventory and backlogs, much as they adjust orders insufficiently to reflect holding and bac...
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作者：Abbey, James D.; Guide, V. Daniel R., Jr.; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Modular design allows several generations of products to co-exist in the installed base as product designs change to take advantage of improved performance via modular upgrades. Use of a common base platform and modular design approach allows a firm to offer updates for improved performance and flexibility via remanufacturing when products have multiple lifecycles. However, as the product evolves through multiple lifecycles, the large pool of product variants leads to the curse of product prol...
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作者：Kouvelis, Panos; Munson, Charles L.; Yang, Shilei
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Washington State University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：Using predictive global sensitivity analysis, we develop a structural equations model to abstract from the details of a large-scale mixed integer program (MIP) to capture essential design trade-offs of global manufacturing and distribution networks. We provide a conceptual framework that describes a firm's network structure along three dimensions: market focus, plant focus, and network dispersion. Normalized dependent variables are specified that act as proxies for a company's placement into o...
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作者：Victorino, Liana; Verma, Rohit; Wardell, Don G.
作者单位：University of Victoria; Cornell University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：This study examines the effect that verbal scripts have on customer perceived service quality for two distinct service process types. We designed a video experiment that varied the level of verbal scripting for standardized and customized service encounters. We found that in standardized service encounters, an increase in the level of verbal scripting had no effect on perceived service quality. However, for customized encounters, perceived service quality was impacted. More specifically, a pre...
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作者：Inderfurth, Karl; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：Otto von Guericke University
摘要：The use of screening contracts is a common approach to solve supply chain coordination problems under asymmetric information. One main assumption in this context is that managers without specific incentives would rather use their private information strategically than reveal it truthfully. This harms supply chain performance. This study investigates the impact of information sharing in a principal-agent setting that is typical for many supply chain transactions. We conduct a laboratory experim...
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作者：Shepherd, Dean A.; Patzelt, Holger
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Technical University of Munich
摘要：In this article, we introduce the notion of operational entrepreneurshipthe selection and management of transformation processes for recognizing, evaluating, and exploiting opportunities for potential value creationto offer examples of research opportunities at the interface of entrepreneurship and operations management. Specifically, we believe that operations management has been under-utilized for gaining a deeper understanding of (i) the knowledge and motivation required for opportunity rec...
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作者：Osadchiy, Nikolay; Gaur, Vishal; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Emory University; Cornell University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We present a method for forecasting sales using financial market information and test this method on annual data for US public retailers. Our method is motivated by the permanent income hypothesis in economics, which states that the amount of consumer spending and the mix of spending between discretionary and necessity items depend on the returns achieved on equity portfolios held by consumers. Taking as input forecasts from other sources, such as equity analysts or time-series models, we cons...
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作者：Perdikaki, Olga; Swaminathan, Jayashankar
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：There is a growing trend in the retail industry to improve customer experience. In this article, we study retailer-initiated strategies to increase consumer valuation for a product under duopoly. In such a setting, it is possible that a consumer's valuation may be increased by one retailer; however, the consumer may decide to buy the product from the competitor. We consider a two-stage game where retailers first decide whether to invest in improvements in customer valuation and then engage in ...
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作者：Hall, Nicholas G.; Liu, Zhixin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We consider the allocation of limited production capacity among several competing agents through auctions. Our focus is on the contribution of flexibility in market good design to effective capacity allocation. The application studied is a capacity allocation problem involving several agents, each with a job, and a facility owner. Each agent generates revenue by purchasing capacity and scheduling its job at the facility. Ascending auctions with various market good designs are compared. We intr...
