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作者：Qi, Wei; Li, Lefei; Liu, Sheng; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：McGill University; Tsinghua University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Two socioeconomic transformations, namely, the booms in the sharing economy and retail e-commerce, lead to the prospect where shared mobility of passenger cars prevails throughout urban areas for home delivery services. Logistics service providers as well as local governments are in need of evaluating the potentially substantial impacts of this mode shift, given their economic objectives and environmental concerns. This paper addresses this need by providing new logistics planning models and m...
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作者：Guajardo, Jose A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The nonresidential solar energy market has grown rapidly in the United States. Companies considering the adoption of solar energy have an important choice: whether to purchase the system (direct ownership, or DO) or opt for an agreement with a service provider that offers third-party ownership (TPO). Although this decision is financially very important, empirical research comparing the two models from an operational perspective has been scarce. These issues are particularly relevant considerin...
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作者：Lo, Chris K. Y.; Tang, Christopher S.; Zhou, Yi; Yeung, Andy C. L.; Fan, Di
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Macau University of Science & Technology
摘要：We examine firms listed on the Shanghai/Shenzhen Stock Exchange to investigate stock market reactions to 294 Chinese manufacturing firms involved in 618 environmental incidents between 2006 and 2013. Through our event studies, we find empirical evidence of a significantly negative stock market reaction to announcements of environmental incidents. Our empirical analysis reveals that Chinese firms with a higher government share (of ownership) and recognition of social responsibility tend to be l...
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作者：Lin, Yen-Ting; Parlaktuerk, Ali K.; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of San Diego; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We consider a manufacturer serving a retailer that sells its product to customers over two periods. Each firm determines its unit price. The retailer orders the product from the manufacturer prior to the beginning of the selling periods. We consider two types of customers: (1) strategic customers who take their future options into account and time their purchases accordingly and (2) myopic customers who consider only their current options. We compare the resulting equilibria for these two scen...
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作者：Nikoofal, Mohammad E.; Guemues, Mehmet
作者单位：Toronto Metropolitan University; McGill University
摘要：Despite the many benefits of outsourcing, firms are still concerned about the lack of critical information regarding both the risk levels and actions of their suppliers, who are usually just a few links away. Usually, companies manage supply chain risks by deferring payments to suppliers until after the delivery has been made. Even though the deferred payment approach shunts the risk from the buyer to the supplier, recent supply chain failures suggest that it does not necessarily eliminate the...
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作者：Cohen, Morris A.; Cui, Shiliang; Ernst, Ricardo; Huchzermeier, Arnd; Kouvelis, Panos; Lee, Hau L.; Matsuo, Hirofumi; Steuber, Marc; Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Georgetown University; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; Washington University (WUSTL); Stanford University; Kobe University; Santa Clara University
摘要：Problem definition: Manufacturing firms are undergoing restructuring defined by a collection of adjustments and decisions, which affect the source and destination of manufactured products throughout the firm's global supply chain network. We report on a comprehensive picture of manufacturing sourcing on a global basis. Academic/practical relevance: With dynamic changes in global economic, political, and technological conditions, the design of global supply chain strategies has become criticall...
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作者：Davis, Andrew M.; Leider, Stephen
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Suppliers are often reluctant to invest in capacity if they believe that they will be unable to recover their investment costs in subsequent transactions with buyers. In theory, a number of different contracts can solve this issue and induce first-best investment levels by the supplier. In this study, we investigate the performance of these contracts in a two-tier supply chain. We develop an experimental design where retailers and suppliers bargain over contract terms-and have the ability to m...
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作者：Guajardo, Jose A.; Cohen, Morris A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The decisions of whether and how to adopt service differentiation are at the core of a firm's service operations strategy. This paper proposes a framework for service differentiation that highlights the identification and use of operating segments as a central component in the delivery of differentiated services. The notion of operating segments and the general empirical methodology to identify them proposed in this paper integrally considers the consumer's preferences and operational capabili...
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作者：Cui, Yao; Duenyas, Izak; Sahin, Ozge
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：We consider a setting where the firm sells a main service (e.g., air travel) and an ancillary service (e.g., in-flight meal) to two types of consumers: high type (e.g., business travelers) and low type (e.g., leisure travelers). The firm decides whether to unbundle the ancillary service from the main service and charge separate prices for different service components. We study the interaction between the optimal ancillary unbundling strategy and the firm's use of main service price discriminat...
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作者：Nasrollahzadeh, Amir Ali; Khademi, Amin; Mayorga, Maria E.
作者单位：Clemson University; North Carolina State University
摘要：In this study, we develop a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance dispatching and relocation. In addition to ambulance redeployment, we consider a general dispatching and relocation strategy by which the decision maker has the option to (i) select any available ambulance to dispatch to a call or to queue the call and (ii) send an idle ambulance to cover the location of an ambulance just dispatched to a call. We formulate the problem as a stochastic dynamic program, and, becau...
