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作者：Deshpande, Vinayak; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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作者：Narayanan, Sriram; Terris, Ed
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：Problem definition: This study examines the impact of disability diversity on the productivity of apparel manufacturing teams in the context of a work integration social enterprise. Two measures of disability diversity are examined: the number of disability categories employed in a production line and the evenness of disability category dispersion among workers employed in an apparel production line. Academic/practical relevance: The problem has both academic and practical relevance. From an a...
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作者：Yu, Jiayi Joey; Tang, Christopher S.; Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Knuckles, James
作者单位：Fudan University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：Problem definition: When donors subsidize products for sale to low-income families, they need to address who to subsidize in the supply chain and to what extent and whether such supply chain structures as retail competition, substitutable products, and demand uncertainty matter. Academic/practical relevance: By introducing and analyzing development supply chains in which transactions are commercial but subsidies are needed for affordability, we explore different supply chain structures, with p...
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作者：Babich, Volodymyr; Lobel, Ruben; Yucel, Safak
作者单位：Georgetown University; Airbnb
摘要：Problem definition: Governments have adopted various subsidy policies to promote investment in renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar panels. The German government uses a feed-in-tariff policy that provides a guaranteed stream of payments for each unit of electricity generated by a household. In contrast, the U.S. government uses a tax-rebate policy that reduces the initial investment cost, and the household receives the retail price for the generated electricity. In this paper, we stu...
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作者：Zhang, Ying; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：Clemson University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Problem definition: We study the optimal seeding policy under rainfall uncertainty in rain-fed agriculture and explore its advantage over commonly used heuristics in practice. Academic/practical relevance: Our work is in the area of agriculture operations, and we focus on the improvement of farmer's expected total profit by optimizing planting schedules. Methodology: We model a farmer's planting problem under limited planting capacity in a finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program. Results: We...
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作者：Lin, Yen-Ting; Sun, Haoying; Wang, Shouglang
作者单位：University of San Diego; University of Kentucky; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Problem definition: A manufacturer takes raw material with an exogenous quality distribution to make a traditional product and a coproduct using material of quality above and below a well-established standard, respectively. The market consists of traditional consumers, who are only willing to pay for a product's consumption value, and some environmentally conscious (i.e., green) consumers, who additionally value the product's material conservation. In this context, we study the firm's optimal ...
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作者：Chen, Jiayu; Qi, Anyan; Dawande, Milind
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Problem definition: A key question in socially responsible supply networks is as follows: When firms audit some, but not all, of their respective suppliers, how do the degree centralities of the suppliers (i.e., the number of firms to which they supply) affect their auditing priority from the viewpoint of the firms? To investigate, we consider an assembly network consisting of two firms and three suppliers; each firm has one independent supplier that uniquely supplies to that firm and one comm...
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作者：Fang, Xin; Cho, Soo-Haeng
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Problem definition: This paper studies two cooperative approaches of firms in managing social responsibility violations of their supplier: auditing a common supplier jointly (joint auditing) and sharing independent audit results with other firms (audit sharing). We study this problem in a market with externalities and a large number of firms. Academic/practical relevance: With numerous firms procuring their materials and parts worldwide, there are many cases in which overseas suppliers violate...
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作者：Chen, Li; Yao, Shiqing; Zhu, Kaijie
作者单位：Cornell University; Monash University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Problem definition: Although they enjoy low costs in sourcing from emerging economies, global brands also face serious brand and reputation risks from their suppliers' noncompliance with environmental and labor standards. Such a supplier problem can be viewed as a process quality problem concerning how products are sourced and produced. Academic/practical relevance: Addressing this problem is a key component of many global companies' responsible sourcing programs. A common approach is to use a...
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作者：Kalkanci, Basak; Plambeck, Erica L.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Stanford University
摘要：Problem definition: Under what conditions and how can a buying firm, by committing to publish a list of its suppliers and/or the identities and violations of terminated suppliers, increase its expected profit and supplier responsibility? Academic/practical relevance: This paper contributes to a recent thrust in the operations-management literature on how various sorts of transparency influence social and environmental responsibility in a supply chain. In practice, companies are under pressure ...
