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作者：Iyer, Ananth; Saranga, Haritha; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We study the linkages between firm-level quality initiatives such as quality management systems (QMS) and total quality management (TQM) and output productivity in the Indian auto component industry. We use externally validated quality certification and quality awards as proxies for QMS and TQM, respectively, as it is difficult to directly measure the QMS and TQM efforts of firms. We use an unbalanced panel of 220 firms and a balanced panel of 73 firms from the Indian auto component industry o...
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作者：Feng, Baichun; Yao, Tao; Jiang, Bin
作者单位：University of Memphis; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; DePaul University
摘要：The market-based adjustable contract for customized goods or services has emerged in outsourcing practices. Its objective is to minimize the operational risks inherent in today's volatile environment of operations. Our research reveals several important properties of this contract through a continuous-time analytical approach. Specifically, we consider the determination of this contract between two risk-averse firms through a Nash bargaining process. We derive the optimal adjusting mechanism a...
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作者：Davies, Jane; Joglekar, Nitin
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Boston University
摘要：Supply chain integration is increasingly seen as a method to obtain flexibility and, consequently, to provide competitive advantage for firms within a supply chain. Product modularity, either in concert with or independent of such integration, can also produce flexibility for firms within a supply chain. In this proof-of-concept research, we explore whether the supply chain network affects each constituent firm's market valuation and how decisions regarding the level of supply chain integratio...
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作者：Feng, Qi; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We analyze contracting behaviors in a two-tier supply chain system consisting of competing manufacturers and competing retailers. We contrast the contracting outcome of a Stackelberg game, in which the manufacturers offer take-it-or-leave-it contracts to the retailers, with that of a bargaining game, in which the firms bilaterally negotiate contract terms via a process of alternating offers. The manufacturers in the Stackelberg game possess a Stackelberg-leader advantage in that the retailers ...
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作者：Gong, Yeming (Yale); de Koster, Rene B. M.; Frenk, J. B. G. (Hans); Gabor, Adriana F.
作者单位：emlyon business school; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Sabanci University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Self-storage is a booming industry. Both private customers and companies can rent temporary space from such facilities. The design of self-storage warehouses differs from other facility designs in its focus on revenue maximization. A major question is how to design self-storage facilities to fit market segments and accommodate volatile demand to maximize revenue. Customers that cannot be accommodated with a space size of their choice can be either rejected or upscaled to a larger space. Based ...
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作者：Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan; Narayanan, Sriram; Luo, Yadong; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of Miami; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Sun Yat Sen University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：As emerging markets increasingly rely on service businesses through offshore outsourcing, we examine the role of governance control mechanisms in improving performance among business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in India. Using data collected from 205 emerging market-based BPO service providers in India, we examine the antecedents and consequences of establishing governance control mechanisms in BPO service providers. Specifically, we examine how structural (use of contracts wit...
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作者：Tatikonda, Mohan V.; Terjesen, Siri A.; Patel, Pankaj C.; Parida, Vinit
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Ball State University; Lulea University of Technology
摘要：We investigate relationships between operational capabilities and new venture survival. On the basis of operations management and entrepreneurship literature, we develop a contingency framework of operational capabilities especially appropriate at different life phases of a new venture's evolution. We expect that in the first years of a new venture's life, entrepreneurs should emphasize high inventory turnover to preserve working capital, support customer responsiveness, and aid firm adaptabil...
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作者：Ketzenberg, Michael E.; Geismar, Neil; Metters, Richard; van der Laan, Erwin
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：An important difference between both manufacturing and wholesaling vs. retail is the information available concerning inventory. Typically, far less information characterizes retail. Here, an extreme environment of information shortfall is examined. The environment is technically termed unattended points of sale, but colloquially called vending machines. Once inventory is loaded into a machine, information on demand and inventory level is not observed until the scheduled reloading date. Techno...
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作者：Lu, Ye; Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：In this note, we study the price-setting newsvendor problem. We use three conditions, the log-convexity of the coefficient of variation, the log-concavity of the deterministic profit function, and the log-convexity of the random noise's expectation conditional on having leftover inventory to establish the log-concavity of the retailer's expected profit function. This new result is complementary to existing results and removes some assumptions in the pricing and inventory coordination literatur...
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作者：Billington, Corey; Davidson, Rhoda
摘要：Open innovation, fuelled by the rise of the Internet, has made it feasible and cheaper for firms to open themselves up to a wide range of external sources of innovative ideas. The explosive growth of open innovation intermediary networks, such as InnoCentive or Linked-in, enables the rapid pairing of firms seeking knowledge to address a wide range of business challenges (seekers) with other firms or individuals who already have relevant knowledge (solvers or knowledge brokers). These intermedi...
