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作者：Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：I consider a channel with one manufacturer selling the same product to two retailers engaged in imperfect competition. The retailers are asymmetric because one has a lower marginal selling cost (or a higher demand potential) than the other. I design the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism, whereby the manufacturer must offer the same contract options to both retailers. I fully characterize the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism for varying degrees of retailer asymmetry and competiti...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Ozdemir, Oznur; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Akdeniz University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：In this study, we compare two common forms of product take-back legislation implementation: (i) manufacturer-operated systems, where the state imposes certain take-back objectives on manufacturers, and (ii) state-operated systems, where manufacturers or consumers finance take-back through recovery fees. We show that their impacts on different stakeholders, that is, social welfare, manufacturers, consumers, and the environment, can be significantly different and stakeholder preferences for thes...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G., Jr.; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：We analyze the market entry problem faced by startups that must integrate their service or product with one or more complementary technologies. The problem is especially challenging when the complementary technologies have uncertain cost reduction potentials. The entrepreneurship literature suggests that startups should pursue focused strategies for various reasons, including bounded rationality and budget constraints, but generally overlooks startups entering markets with complementary techno...
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作者：Andradottir, Sigrun; Ayhan, Hayriye; Down, Douglas G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; McMaster University
摘要：A fundamental aspect of designing systems with dedicated servers is identifying and improving the system bottlenecks. We extend the concept of a bottleneck to networks with heterogeneous, flexible servers. In contrast with a network with dedicated servers, the bottlenecks are not a priori obvious, but can be determined by solving a number of linear programming problems. Unlike the dedicated server case, we find that a bottleneck may span several nodes in the network. We then identify some char...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：We study the impact of product recovery on a firm's product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer's valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does not reuse quality inducing components or material but it is overall profitable (e.g., cell phone recy...
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作者：Bhargava, Hemant K.; Kim, Byung Cho; Sun, Daewon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Korea University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Many emerging entrepreneurial applications and services connect two or more groups of users over Internet-based information technologies. Commercial success of such technology products requires astute business practices related to product line design, price discrimination, and launch timing. We examine these issues for a platform firm that serves two marketslabeled as user and developer marketssuch that the size of each market positively impacts participation in the other. In addition, our mod...
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作者：Gokpinar, Bilal; Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating increased geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to product development operations. In this empirical study of a large auto manufacturer, we examine the operational performance implications of splitting the design of vehicle subsystems across multiple geographic...
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作者：Arya, Anil; Mittendorf, Brian
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Recent years have seen a drastic transformation in the organization of wholesale and retail markets. Where once clear distinctions between wholesale suppliers and retail competitors existed, now an era of blurring boundaries has emerged. This transformation has been marked by the introduction of online channels for suppliers to provide products directly to consumers while, at the same time, traditional retailers too persist. Thus, retailers are both wholesale customers and retail competitors o...
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作者：Kuo, Chia-Wei; Ahn, Hyun-Soo; Aydin, Goker
作者单位：National Taiwan University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This article examines the choice of pricing policy (posted pricing or negotiation) toward end customers in a supply chain. Many retailers actively decide whether or not to encourage negotiation on the shop floor. Of course, the retailer's pricing policy influences not only the retailer's profit, but also the profits of the manufacturers who sell through the retailer. However, little is known about the forces that shape the pricing policy when two self-interested parties interact in a supply ch...
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作者：Hausman, Warren H.; Lee, Hau L.; Subramanian, Uma
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University; The World Bank
摘要：This paper studies the impact of logistics performance on global bilateral trade. Taking a supply chain perspective, logistics performance refers to cost, time, and complexity in accomplishing import and export activities. We draw on a data set compiled by the World Bank containing specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of time, cost, and variability in time. Numerous researchers have shown that logistics performance is statistically significantly related to the volume...
