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作者：Dong, Chuanwen; Li, Dong
作者单位：heSam Universite; ESCP Business School; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：How to decarbonize transportation, which is now, unfortunately, the largest source of carbon emissions among all sectors? The entire industry is heavily driven by economies of scale. When more freight is collected in a lane, it can be shifted to a greener transport mode (e.g., from less-than-truckload to full-truckload, and further to rail transport), and costs and emissions are saved. To support firms achieving such benefits, we develop novel supply chain contracting models that capture suppl...
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作者：Gao, Long; Zhang, Wei; Chen, Youhua Frank; Fei, Xinyue
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; Zhejiang University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Dynamic treatment regimes improve health outcomes by tailoring each treatment to a patient's evolving condition, but they also allow providers to learn and game the system over time. How should insurers pay? We study this new class of reimbursement problems, where the provider can privately learn and manipulate the progression of the patient's condition. (i) We characterize the optimal payment policy: it internalizes two intertemporal effects of each treatment, and rewards provider honesty wit...
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作者：Park, Young Soo; Lee, Yun Shin; Siemsen, Enno
作者单位：Kookmin University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Bath
摘要：We examine when and how task division improves performance for inventory planning. Specifically, we consider a decentralized inventory management context with two interdependent subtasks: preparing a forecast and setting a service level. Using a behavioral experiment, we reveal that the task challenge moderates the relationship between task division and performance. Our findings indicate that task division improves performance when the task becomes more challenging, such as under high demand u...
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作者：Villa, Sebastian; Castaneda, Jaime Andres; Urrea, Gloria
作者单位：University of New Mexico; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Maintaining a high service level with customers involves a fundamental tradeoff between investing in inventory and investing in expediting the shipping of the additional units needed to achieve that service level. We use a multi-method approach to show how and when ordering decisions are influenced by different levels of expediting costs and target service levels. First, we derive a mathematical model that provides a closed-form solution to this tradeoff. Second, we run a behavioral study to s...
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作者：Jiang, Yang; Tan, Yong; Chen, Xi
作者单位：Nanjing University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Referral programs have received increasing attention as a way to enhance project fundraising in crowdfunding. To improve operational efficiency and performance, many crowdfunding platforms allow users to exert more effort (referral effort) when making referrals. In this paper, we study the impact of users' referral efforts on referral outcomes, using a unique data set from a reward-based crowdfunding platform. We analyze three types of referral effort beyond merely sharing the referral link, n...
