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作者：Benjaafar, S; Cooper, WL; Kim, JS
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Samsung
摘要：We study inventory pooling in systems with symmetric costs where supply lead times are endogenously generated by a finite-capacity production system. We investigate the sensitivity of the cost advantage of inventory pooling to various system parameters, including loading, service levels, demand and production time variability, and structure of the production system. The analysis reveals differences in how various parameters affect the cost reduction from pooling and suggests that these differe...
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作者：Chen, ZL; Vairaktarakis, GL
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Motivated by applications in the computer and food catering service industries, we study an integrated scheduling model of production and distribution operations. In this model, a set of jobs (i.e,, customer orders) are first processed in a processing facility (e.g., manufacturing plant or service center) and then delivered to the customers directly without intermediate inventory. The problem is to find a joint schedule of production and distribution such that an objective function that takes ...
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作者：Forman, C
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：The diffusion of Internet technology among firms is widely considered to be one of the primary factors behind the rapid economic growth of the 1990s. However, little systematic study has examined the variation in firm decisions to adopt the Internet. I explore the sources of this variation by examining Internet adoption decisions in a very large sample of organizations in the finance and services sector in 1998. I show how prior information technology (IT) investments land workplace organizati...
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作者：Zhao, H; Deshpande, V; Ryan, JK
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：An increasing number of manufacturers have started to pursue a strategy that promotes inventory sharing among the dealers in their distribution network. In this paper we analyze a decentralized dealer network in which each independent dealer is given the flexibility to share his inventory. We model inventory sharing as a multiple demand classes problem in which each dealer faces his own customer demand with high priority, and inventory-sharing requests from other dealers with low priority. Ass...
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作者：Burnetas, A; Ritchken, P
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：This article investigates the role of option contracts in a supply chain when the demand curve is downward sloping. We consider call (put) options that provide the retailer with the right to reorder (return) goods at a fixed price. We show that the introduction of option contracts causes the wholesale price to increase and the volatility of the retail price to decrease. In general, options are not zero-sum games. Conditions are derived under which the manufacturer prefers to use options. When ...
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作者：Ho, TH; Weigelt, K
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The trust-building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multistage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. In each stage, also, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be trustworthy by sharing them. Players are strangers because they do not know the identity of others and, they will not play them again. Thus, there is no prospect of future interaction to induce trusting behav...
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作者：Geng, XJ; Stinchcombe, MB; Whinston, AB
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Consumers' average value for information goods, websites, weather forecasts, music, and news declines with the number consumed. This paper provides simple guidelines to optimal bundling marketing strategies in this case. If consumers' values do not decrease too quickly, we show that bundling is approximately optimal. If consumers' values to subsequent goods decrease quickly, we show by example that one should expect bundling to be suboptimal.
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作者：Cabral, LMB; Villas-Boas, M
作者单位：New York University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study oligopoly price competition between multiproduct firms-firms whose products interact in the profit function. Specifically, we focus on the impact of intrafirm product interactions on the level of equilibrium profits. This impact may be decomposed in two different ways: (a) a direct effect (keeping the competitors' actions fixed) plus a strategic effect (i.e., through the competitors' actions); or, alternatively, (b) a competitive advantage effect (change in firm i only) plus an imitat...
