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作者：MacDonald, Corinne; Gunn, Eldon A.
作者单位：Dalhousie University
摘要：A framework for the analysis of manufacturing systems operating under a production authorization card (PAC) system is outlined. The PAC system provides a single model, which encompasses a broad variety of control strategies, including Kanban and CONWIP. This paper describes a framework for the performance analysis and comparison of both specific and families of control strategies. The framework starts with system performance measures estimated by simulation. These simulations in turn provide t...
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作者：Sosic, Greys
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：In their recent paper, Nagarajan and Sosic study an assembly supply chain in which n suppliers sell complementary components to a downstream assembler, who faces a price-sensitive deterministic demand. Suppliers may form alliances, and each alliance then sells a kit of components to the assembler and determines the price for that kit. The assembler buys the components (kits) from the alliances and sets the selling price of the product. Nagarajan and Sosic consider three modes of competition-su...
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作者：Toktay, L. Beril; Wei, Donna
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：For firms remanufacturing their products, the total life-cycle costs and revenues from new and remanufactured products determine their profitability. In many firms, manufacturing/sales and remanufacturing/remarketing operations are carried out in different divisions. Each division is responsible for only part of the product's life cycle. Practices regarding transfer pricing across divisions vary significantly among companies, affecting the life-cycle profit performance of the product. In this ...
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作者：Ji, Yonghua; Kumar, Subodha; Mookerjee, Vijay S.; Sethi, Suresh P.; Yeh, Denny
作者单位：University of Alberta; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Fu Jen Catholic University
摘要：We develop an optimal control model to maximize the net value provided by a software system over its useful life. The model determines the initial number of features in the system, the level of dynamic enhancement effort, and the lifetime of the system. The various factors affecting these optimal choices are systems characteristics (e.g., complexity, age, quality), user learning, and process maturity. We also consider that there is a time lag between the addition of a feature and the realizati...
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作者：Chen, Chien-Ming; Delmas, Magali
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Aggregation of corporate social performance (CSP) metrics poses a major challenge to researchers and practitioners. This study provides a critical evaluation of current aggregation approaches and proposes a new methodology based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compute a CSP index. DEA is independent of subjective weight specifications and provides an efficiency index to benchmark the CSP of firms. Using CSP data from 2190 firms in three major industries from the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Do...
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作者：Bendoly, Elliot
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：In models of optimal decision making, assumptions about managerial behavior are often made with the hope that the prescriptions offered by these models will be effective in practice, even if actual behavior occasionally strays from these assumptions. However, recent revenue management (RM) research has demonstrated what appear to be systematic deviations from normative models of decision making. These deviations can even be observed in relatively simple RM contexts. We suggest that technical e...
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作者：Kort, Peter M.; Zaccour, Georges
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Antwerp; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Tilburg University
摘要：Deciding to open the source code of a software product has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the firm loses the revenue from the software. The advantage is that the users' network can contribute to the quality of the software code, which increases the demand for the software and for a complementary product. Demand for the complementary product also goes up, because demand for a product increases when the price of its complement decreases, and under open source, the price o...
