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作者：El Ouardighi, Fouad; Khmelnitsky, Eugene; Sethi, Suresh P.
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; Tel Aviv University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This paper investigates how the optimization of policymaker interventions against an epidemic disease is affected by contextual factors related to (i) a cost-centered approach to countering the epidemic, (ii) eventual correlative popular discontent, and (iii) growing social fatigue engendered by nontherapeutic interventions. Three nontherapeutic policies-mobility restrictions (MR), securing social interactions (SSI), and a combination of both (MR + SSI)-are compared in terms of effectiveness a...
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作者：Ozen, Ulas; Slikker, Marco; Sosic, Greys
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; University of Southern California
摘要：We study a special class of cooperative games with transferable utility (TU), called m-attribute games. Every player in an m-attribute game is endowed with a vector of m attributes that can be combined in an additive fashion; that is, if players form a coalition, the attribute vector of this coalition is obtained by adding the attributes of its members. Another fundamental feature of m-attribute games is that their characteristic function is defined by a continuous attribute function pi-the va...
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作者：Xiang, Yi; Soberman, David; Gatignon, Hubert
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; University of Toronto; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Understanding the patterns of demand evolution for a new category is important for firms to effectively manage capacity planning, market and service operations, and research and development. Our objective is to analyze how marketing at the industry level affects the evolution of primary demand in different stages of the product life cycle. We characterize the aggregate marketing activities in two constructs: marketing breadth and competitive spread. The first construct reflects the spread of s...
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作者：Ergin, Elcin; Gumus, Mehmet; Yang, Nathan
作者单位：McGill University; Cornell University
摘要：This study offers an empirical investigation of inventory and sales dynamics in a large-scale retail network setting. We infer the impact of product shortages on sales in neighboring outlets using unique data from a large fast fashion retailing chain and an Instrumented Difference-in-Differences (DDIV) methodology. Our analysis reveals that sales for a particular item at a focal store increases when that same item experiences stock-outs in neighboring stores. Our empirical findings suggest tha...
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作者：Lo, Chris K. Y.; Tang, Christopher S.; Zhou, Yi
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Monash University
摘要：Do firms suffer from negative long-term business performance after being exposed for violating environmental regulations? We empirically examine this question using all 1542 environmental incidents committed by 418 public Chinese manufacturers listed on the Shanghai/Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2013. We use the Coarsened Exact Matching to match a sample firm with (exposed) environmental incidents with a control firm that exhibits the same characteristics in our sample. Our comparative ...
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作者：Khanjari, Neda; Duenyas, Izak; Iravani, Seyed M. R.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Camden; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：This research considers situations in which buyers pay to reserve their suppliers' capacity for future use. The study specifically explores whether suppliers should provide transfer rights, allowing buyers unable to use all of their reserved capacity to transfer the excess to another buyer, and whether they should charge a transfer fee. The study finds that, in most cases, the supplier maximizes financial outcomes when the buyer releasing the excess capacity keeps most of the retail-level prof...
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作者：Mandl, Christian; Nadarajah, Selvaprabu; Minner, Stefan; Gavirneni, Srinagesh
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Technical University of Munich; Cornell University
摘要：Storage assets are critical for physical trading of commodities under volatile prices. State-of-the-art methods for managing storage facilities such as the reoptimization heuristic (RH), which are part of commercial software, approximate a Markov Decision Process (MDP) assuming full information regarding the state and the stochastic commodity price process and hence suffer from informational inconsistencies with observed price data and structural inconsistencies with the true optimal policy, w...
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作者：Qu, Xinxue (Shawn); Lotfi, Aslan; Jain, Dipak C.; Jiang, Zhengrui
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Richmond; China Europe International Business School; Nanjing University
摘要：In the presence of successive product generations, most consumers are repeat buyers who may decide to purchase a future product generation even before its release. Therefore, after a new product generation enters the market, its sales often exhibit a declining pattern, which renders traditional diffusion models unsuitable for characterizing consumers' decisions on upgrade timing. In this study, we propose an Exponential-Decay proportional hazard model (Expo-Decay model) to predict consumers' t...
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作者：Abdulla, Huseyn; Abbey, James D.; Ketzenberg, Michael
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Due to the ongoing and dramatic growth in the volume of consumer returns, retailers continue to struggle with the trade-off in returns service strategies between implementing stricter return policies to lower operational costs and environmental footprint versus providing customers with lenient return policies to positively stimulate customers' value perceptions and patronage intentions. This paper argues that effective management of this trade-off requires a deep understanding of the process t...
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作者：Chang, Hsihui; Liu, Sheng; Mashruwala, Raj
作者单位：Drexel University; Northeastern Illinois University; University of Calgary
摘要：Prior studies report mixed evidence on the impact of customers' bargaining power on supplier performance. We shed light on this mixed evidence by considering the moderating role of strategic fit. A strategically aligned supplier can provide long-term benefits to the customer. As a result, powerful customers may trade off the short-term benefits obtained through supplier concessions with the long-term benefits derived from strategic fit. Thus, strategic fit can mitigate the negative impact of c...
