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作者：Wu, Lezhen; Wu, Xiaole; Yi, Shuyue
作者单位：Fudan University
摘要：Due to the U.S.-China trade war, multinational firms may develop new contract manufacturers outside China to hedge against high tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. market. However, tariffs exhibit high uncertainty in recent years and developing a contract manufacturer incurs costs; hence, it is challenging to decide whether to develop a new contract manufacturer. We study two competing firms' contract manufacturer development decisions in a sequential game. First, we find that multinational...
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Lei; Li, Qiyang; Zeng, Fanzhuo
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Jinan University; Fuzhou University; University of Southampton; Solent University
摘要：Restaurants have traditionally operated offline only, but the growth of food delivery platforms has prompted a shift toward online sales. In practice, consumers who share digital coupons offered by the platforms (e.g. Uber Eats and Meituan) in social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat) will be rewarded for the social traffic, which effectively attracts many restaurants to open online store. However, this also leads to intensified competition with the restaurant's physical (offline) s...
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作者：Awaysheh, Amrou; Narayanan, Sriram; Jacobs, Brian W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Pepperdine University
摘要：Using factory-level data from a large multinational manufacturer, we examine the effects of both organizational experience and knowledge transfer on an increasingly critical environmental performance measure, the consumption of water required for manufacturing. We estimate the direct effects on water consumption from in-factory cumulative production experience and the vicarious learning from peer factories in the same product category. We consider vicarious learning from three potential source...
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作者：Golara, Sina; Dooley, Kevin J.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Noting the significant shift in the manufacturing sector towards services in recent decades, this study examines the potential of service operations as a source of customer insight. We study whether regular customer exposure during service operations can drive commercially significant and patentable innovation. Furthermore, we highlight the underexplored heterogeneity in the knowledge-generating potential of service activities. Using the media richness theory, we argue that more contact-intens...
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作者：Yang, Cong; Huh, Woonghee Tim
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：We consider a periodic-review single-product multi-echelon inventory problem with instantaneous replenishment. In each period, the decision-maker makes ordering decisions for all echelons. Any unsatisfied demand is back-ordered, and any excess inventory is carried to the next period. In contrast to the classic inventory literature, we assume that the information of the demand distribution is not known a priori, and the decision-maker observes demand realizations over the planning horizon. We p...
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作者：Ahn, Hyun Soo; Cetinkaya, Eren; Duenyas, Izak; Zhang, Mengzhenyu
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of London; University College London
摘要：This paper studies how capacity collaboration can benefit two competing firms. We consider a two-stage model where capacity decisions are made in the first stage when there are significant uncertainties about market conditions, and then production decisions are made in the second stage after most of these uncertainties are resolved. We vary the degree of collaboration between the two firms in their capacity and production decisions, examining multiple models and comparing the outcomes. We find...
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作者：Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu; Gopal, Ram
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of Warwick
摘要：Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology has opened up possibilities for product design collaborations between device providers and customers. To enable an environment of cocreation, device providers are now renting 3D printers via the 3D-as-a-Service (3DaaS) model. Although prior research has examined pricing and quality issues in the traditional manufacturing setup, these studies have not analyzed such decisions in the 3D printing supply chain setting, where end users possess the ability t...
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作者：Kim, Hyunsoo; Jung, Hyun Ju; Lee, Chul Ho
作者单位：Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：The literature in sustainability has emphasized external pressures as a main driver of firms' environmental responsibility. However, under similar external pressures, some firms search for environmental technology, while others do not. By focusing on information and communication technology (ICT) firms, we try to answer the question of when firms are motivated to search for renewable energy technology. Drawing on the framework of the behavioral theory of the firm, we propose that a mismatch be...
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作者：Banker, Rajiv D.; Huang, Rong; Li, Xiaorong; Yan, Yan
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Fudan University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Queens College NY (CUNY)
摘要：This study investigates the impact of firms' strategic positioning on cost structure. Using textual analysis based on 10-K filings, we capture business strategy along three dimensions: product leadership, customer intimacy, and operational excellence. Firms pursuing the product leadership strategy emphasize innovation and confront high congestion risk caused by rapid growth. We find that these firms display a more rigid cost structure by incurring higher strategic fixed investments in R&D and ...
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作者：Zhang, Wenchang; Liu, Chewei; Ming, Liu; Cheng, Yue
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKU Shenzhen); Peking University
摘要：Live-streaming commerce, a combination of live streaming and e-commerce on social media platforms, has been a huge phenomenon over the past few years. Recently, the lucky draw (also known as sweepstakes) stands out as one of the most popular promotion innovations for traffic acquisition in live-streaming commerce. As a non-price-based operational lever, lucky draws offer not only utilitarian benefits (i.e., winning rewards) but also social values that engage and entertain participants (i.e., p...
