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作者：Shockley, Jeff; Merrick, Jason R. W.; Liu, Xiaojin; Smith, Jeffery S.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：Companies across many industries seek to understand how customer ordering impacts supply chain distribution performance. In the US medical supplies industry, wholesalers are uniquely positioned to use information about downstream customers to study and potentially influence buyer policies and practices due to their industry scale and data visibility. In this study, wholesale medical supplies buyers are first examined based on their ordering practices over a 2-year window using the theoretical ...
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作者：Li, Rong; Yang, Liangbin; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Syracuse University
摘要：Facing consumers' growing demand for fast order fulfillment, it is important yet challenging for franchise companies to best incentivize frequent inventory sharing among their independent franchise retailers or dealers to achieve channel coordination. Past literature has only addressed such channel coordination for one-time inventory sharing using contractual agreements, which unfortunately do not work for frequent inventory sharing. In this study, we consider multiple inventory-sharing opport...
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作者：Taube, Florian; Minner, Stefan
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; Technical University of Munich
摘要：We consider a periodic review single-item inventory model under stochastic demand. Every m periods, in the regular order period, fixed order costs are K. In the periods in-between, the intraperiods, higher fixed order costs of L>K$L>K$ apply. The literature on optimal inventory policies under fixed order costs does not account for these time-dependent fixed order costs. By generalizing existing proofs for optimal inventory policies, we close this gap in inventory theory. The optimal inventory ...
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作者：Anderson, David; Bjarnadottir, Margret Vilborg; Ross, David Gaddis
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Employers are under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and their own employees to address gender pay inequity in their compensation structure. However, managers tasked with measuring and closing gender and other pay gaps have few helpful quantitative tools at their disposal. We design and implement an algorithm that measures whether an employer has a pay gap and suggests salary adjustments to close it, all while supporting the employer's goals with respect to equity, culture, and ...
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作者：Urrea, Gloria; Yoo, Eunae
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Online volunteering platforms allow humanitarian organizations (HOs) to recruit volunteers to work remotely on projects of varying urgency. While removing time and space constraints enables HOs to scale up their volunteer force, HOs must manage greater heterogeneity in volunteers' experience. We investigate empirically how volunteers' experience impacts two performance metrics on online volunteering platforms: project completion rate and volunteer retention. In addition, we examine the conditi...
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作者：Bai, Miao; Berg, Bjorn; Sir, Esra Sisikoglu; Sir, Mustafa Y.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Templating strategies specify policies on capacity allocation and appointment booking, which are central to patient access management in outpatient specialty practices (SPs). In the widely implemented partitioned templating strategy, appointment capacity is allocated exclusively to each patient group defined by a combination of patient attributes and medical conditions, which often results in utilization challenges for SPs. Motivated by problems faced by an SP within a large academic medical c...
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作者：Mohamadi, Navid; Bakhishi, Hataw; Transchel, Sandra; Besiou, Maria
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：In 2020, the world started a fight against a pandemic that has severely disrupted commercial and humanitarian supply chains. Humanitarian organizations (HOs), like the World Food Programme (WFP), adjusted their programs in order to manage this pandemic. One such program is cash and voucher assistance (CVA), which is used to bolster beneficiaries' freedom of choice regarding their consumption. In this vein, WFP supports local retailers to provide CVA to beneficiaries who do not have access to a...
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作者：Feldman, Jacob; Jiang, Puping
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：In this paper, we consider an assortment optimization problem in which a platform must choose pairwise disjoint sets of assortments to offer across a series of T stages. Arriving customers begin their search process in the first stage, and progress sequentially through the stages until their patience expires, at which point they make a multinomial logit-based purchasing decision from among all products they have viewed throughout their search process. The goal is to choose the sequential displ...
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作者：Wu, Lezhen; Wu, Xiaole; Zhou, Yu
作者单位：Fudan University; Chongqing University
摘要：Pandemics, trade frictions, and military conflicts may disrupt manufacturers' production capacity. This paper develops a two-period supply chain model with supply disruption risk in the second period to investigate inventory decisions and the manufacturer's commitment strategies. We consider three strategies: no commitment, price commitment, and inventory commitment. Inventory holding within the supply chain is investigated under each strategy, and the dominant strategy is determined by compar...
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作者：Lee, Jaeseok; Jeong, Seongkyoon; Jung, Hyun Ju
作者单位：University of Auckland; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
摘要：Climate change as a global challenge requires collective responses from stakeholders in society. As the main source of energy consumption generating greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2), firms increasingly share their problems and experiences regarding energy saving in interfirm knowledge communities. By distinguishing knowledge sharing from free-riding, we investigate how firms that participate in an interfirm knowledge community for energy saving improve their energy efficiency. We use a unique pane...
