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作者：Waguespack, David M.; Fleming, Lee
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Harvard University
摘要：This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that participation might increase a startup's chances of a liquidity event: gaining endorsement of the startup's technology standard, openly developing the startup's technology within the community (but not necessarily gaining endorsement), simply attending physical meetings of the community, an...
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作者：Boone, Christophe; Hendriks, Walter
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Maastricht University
摘要：Past research on the relationship between top management team (TMT) compositional diversity and organizational performance has paid insufficient attention to the nature of TMT team processes in interaction with TMT diversity. We fill this gap by studying how three team mechanisms (collaborative behavior, accurate information exchange, and decision-making decentralization) moderate the impact of TMT diversity on financial performance of 33 information technology firms. We focus on two fundament...
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作者：Yang, Zhibin (Ben); Aydin, Goeker; Babich, Volodymyr; Beil, Damian R.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We study a manufacturer that faces a supplier privileged with private information about supply disruptions. We investigate how risk-management strategies of the manufacturer change and examine whether risk-management tools are more or less valuable in the presence of such asymmetric information. We model a supply chain with one manufacturer and one supplier, in which the supplier's reliability is either high or low and is the supplier's private information. On disruption, the supplier chooses ...
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作者：Zhang, Zhe George
作者单位：Western Washington University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：This paper analyzes a waiting line system that is motivated by the operations of border-crossing stations between the United States and Canada. There are two main conflicting goals in such a system: high security level, which often leads to a longer line; and good customer service, which requires a shorter line. Thus, unlike other queueing systems, maintaining the average queue length within a certain range is the primary objective. This is achieved using a staffing policy, called congestion-b...
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作者：Bensoussan, Alain; Mookerjee, Radha; Mookerjee, Vijay; Yue, Wei T.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Diagnostic knowledge-based systems are used in a variety of application domains to support classification decisions. The effectiveness of such systems often decreases as the application environment or user preferences change over time. Hence, frequent adjustments to the system knowledge by a human expert become necessary. We study the problem of determining the optimal amount of effort that should be exerted to maintain the system over a planning horizon (finite or infinite). Using the receive...
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作者：Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco S.
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：We investigate the impact of rivals' product innovation and new advertising on a firm's financial market value in mature product markets. Our test bed is the carbonated soft drink market between 1999 and 2003, a period characterized by a near duopoly between Coca-Cola and Pespi. Empirically, we focus on new product announcements as a proxy of product innovation and on filed trademarks as a measure of new advertising. We find that rival product announcements decrease a firm's financial market v...
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作者：Zhang, Min; Batta, Rajan; Nagi, Rakesh
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：This paper discusses the notion of work flow congestion in the context of material handling equipment interruptions in a manufacturing or warehousing facility. Development of a combination of probabilistic and physics-based models for workflow interruptions permits evaluation of the expected link travel time. The problem is then of routing in a way that minimizes total expected travel time. The rerouting problem is modeled as a multicommodity flow problem with link capacity design. A greedy up...
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作者：Novak, Sharon; Stern, Scott
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Northwestern University
摘要：This paper examines complementarity among vertical integration decisions in automobile product development. Though most research assumes that contracting choices are independent of each other, contracting complementarity arises when the returns to a single vertical integration decision are increasing in the level of vertical integration associated with other contracting choices. First, effective coordination may depend on the level of (noncontractible) effort on the part of each agent; contrac...
