2023

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• Addressing distributional shifts in operations management: The case of order fulfillment in customized production AI翻译
  作者：Senoner, Julian; Kratzwald, Bernhard; Kuzmanovic, Milan; Netland, Torbjorn H.; Feuerriegel, Stefan
  作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Munich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
  摘要：To meet order fulfillment targets, manufacturers seek to optimize production schedules. Machine learning can support this objective by predicting throughput times on production lines given order specifications. However, this is challenging when manufacturers produce customized products because customization often leads to changes in the probability distribution of operational data-so-called distributional shifts. Distributional shifts can harm the performance of predictive models when deployed...
• Offset or reduce: How should firms implement carbon footprint reduction initiatives? AI翻译
  作者：Roemer, Nils; Souza, Gilvan C.; Troester, Christian; Voigt, Guido
  作者单位：University of Hamburg; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Kuhne Logistics University; University of Hamburg
  摘要：Carbon emissions reduction initiatives have received considerable attention at the corporate level. Companies such as Daimler, Apple, and Amazon have publicly declared their goal of becoming carbon neutral or net zero in a near future. They are responding to a growing demand for sustainable products and services. Companies have a variety of options for carbon emission reductions available to them, including internal reductions such as adopting renewable energy as well as buying carbon offsets....
• Securing containerized supply chain through public and private partnership AI翻译
  作者：Nikoofal, Mohammad Ebrahim; Pourakbar, Morteza; Gumus, Mehmet
  作者单位：Toronto Metropolitan University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; McGill University
  摘要：Global trade is seafaring commerce; 90% of traded goods are carried by maritime transport, which has become vulnerable to security risks. This has led governments to initiate security programs serving tens of thousands of members worldwide. This paper studies the government's incentive design and the interaction between Customs inspection capacity and the incentives offered in security programs. Using the theory of incentives, we investigate the value of a partnership in improving the security...
• Managing concurrency in cyclical projects under stochastic task environments: Vaccine development projects during pandemics AI翻译
  作者：Murthy, Nagesh N. N.; Nagaraja, Haikady N. N.; Berenji, Hossein Rikhtehgar
  作者单位：University of Oregon; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Pacific University
  摘要：Aggressive overlapping of stochastic activities during phases of vaccine development has been critical to making effective vaccines for COVID-19 available to the public, at pandemic speed. In cyclical projects wherein activities can be overlapped, downstream tasks may need rework on account of having commenced prior to receiving requisite information that is only available upon completion of upstream task(s). We provide a framework to understand the interplay between stochastic overlap duratio...
• Sooner or later? A study of report timing AI翻译
  作者：Menon, Rahul; Nan, Lin
  作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
  摘要：This study examines the optimal reporting time a regulator should choose for firms to report their information when the firms' effort choices influence the outcome of projects. Our analysis shows that, the regulator's optimal choice of reporting time to maximize overall efficiency is contingent on a trade-off between motivating a firm's effort to improve the outcome and saving the liquidation value for the creditor to reduce the firm's financing cost. We also find that to induce the firm's eff...
• Optimizing resource allocation in service systems via simulation: A Bayesian formulation AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Weiwei; Gao, Siyang; Chen, Wenjie; Du, Jianzhong
  作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; City University of Hong Kong; Southern University of Science & Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology; Fudan University
  摘要：The service sector has become increasingly important in today's economy. To meet the rising expectation of high-quality services, efficiently allocating resources is vital for service systems to balance service qualities with costs. In particular, this paper focuses on a class of resource allocation problems where the service-level objective and constraints are in the form of probabilistic measures. Further, process complexity and system dynamics in service systems often render their performan...
• Effects of store fixture shape at retail checkout: Evidence from field and online studies AI翻译
  作者：Zhang, Xiaoling; Zhang, Ke; Li, Shibo; Koenitz, Damien
  作者单位：Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; Shanghai University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Shanghai University
  摘要：Previous research from both marketing and operations management has shown that servicescape design, as an effective retail operations strategy, can significantly influence consumers' purchases. We extend this literature by investigating how fixture shape, an important environmental factor that has received little attention in previous studies, can influence consumer purchase intentions at retail checkout. Findings from a field study and three online experiments consistently suggest that tower-...
• Switching to profitable outside options under supplier encroachment AI翻译
  作者：Liang, Liang; Chen, Jingxian; Yao, Dong-qing
  作者单位：Hefei University of Technology
  摘要：In practice, manufacturers may encroach on retail markets through a variety of methods, one being through the use of an online channel direct to the consumers, called encroachment. Current research typically assumes that downstream retailers retain procurement from the encroaching supplier. In reality, however, retailers may have the option of switching suppliers after encroachment. By considering a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer with outside options, this paper a...
• The implications of pay transparency in the presence of over- and underconfident agents AI翻译
  作者：Fan, Xiaoshuai; Wu, Qingye; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S.
  作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  摘要：Many companies are under pressure to improve pay transparency; however, its impact on their agents and principals remains unclear. As a way to investigate the upside and downside of pay transparency, we conduct our study based on a scenario in which agents have cognitive bias (namely, over- or underconfident). We also capture the notion of social comparisons behavior (namely, behind-averse and ahead-seeking) that occurs under pay transparency. By exploring a one-principal-two-agent model, we f...
• The weight of the crowd, social information credibility, and firm strategy AI翻译
  作者：Ghosh, Bikram P.; Galbreth, Michael R.
  作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
  摘要：When considering a purchase, consumers often augment their private information about a product with anonymous online social information (reviews, etc.). We examine the impact on firm strategy of how consumers weight these two information sources-private and social-in their purchase decisions. An increase in weight on private information always results in higher prices at the interior equilibrium. However, the effects on profits, consumer, and total surplus are nonmonotonic: all increasing with...