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作者：Bensoussan, Alain; Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Rivera, Alejandro
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong; emlyon business school
摘要：A renewable energy site can expand its power generation capacity by an endogenous amount but may also want to shut down to save on fixed operating costs and interest payments if the market prospects deteriorate. We model such circumstances and derive managerial implications that help us explain real-world conundrums, illustrating the intricate interactions between the operational decision to build up capacity and the financial decision to exit an industry. Shutting down may be delayed in the h...
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作者：Sachs, Anna-Lena; Becker-Peth, Michael; Minner, Stefan; Thonemann, Ulrich W.
作者单位：Lancaster University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Technical University of Munich; University of Cologne
摘要：Human decision making in the newsvendor context has been analyzed intensively in laboratory experiments, where various decision biases have been identified. However, it is unclear whether the biases also exist in practice. We analyze the ordering decisions of a manufacturer who faces a multiproduct newsvendor problem with an aggregate service-level constraint. We find that the manufacturer broadly exhibits the same biases as subjects in the laboratory and is prone to another bias that has not ...
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作者：Zaerpour, Farzad; Bijvank, Marco; Ouyang, Huiyin; Sun, Zhankun
作者单位：University of Winnipeg; University of Calgary; University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Emergency department (ED) overcrowding and long patient wait times have become a worldwide problem. We propose a novel approach to assigning physicians to shifts such that ED wait times are reduced without adding new physicians. In particular, we extend the physician rostering problem (PRP) by including heterogeneity among emergency physicians in terms of their productivity (measured by the number of new patients seen in 1 hour) and by considering the stochastic nature of patient arrivals and ...
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作者：Liu, Zibo; Lin, Zhijie; Zhang, Ying; Tan, Yong
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University; University of Auckland
摘要：Prior literature has focused primarily on offline sampling of physical goods and online sampling of information goods, whereas a new form of sampling campaign-physical goods sampling via online channels-receives little attention. Leveraging a rich data set from Taobao, a large e-commerce platform in China, this study strives to understand the mechanisms of physical goods sampling via online channels. Specifically, we investigate (1) how the sampling size (number of free samples provided) acts ...
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作者：Spiliotopoulou, Eirini; Donohue, Karen; Cagri Gurbuz, Mustafa
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We study the impact of three well-known inventory allocation mechanisms, including proportional, linear, and uniform, on the ordering behavior of retailers serviced from a central distribution center. Based on the allocation mechanism, retailers may have an incentive to adjust (either inflate or deflate) their orders to gain a more favorable allocation, a behavior that may reduce allocation efficiency from a system perspective. We find that while all three mechanisms are centrally optimal unde...
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作者：Kumar, Subodha; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Since the inaugural issue published in 1992, Production and Operations Management has grown phenomenally in terms of the number of submissions and publications and journal impact factor. In this 30th-anniversary issue of the journal, contributing authors examine the past and the future of operations management (OM) research, addressing emerging issues arising from innovations, sustainability, social responsibility, technology management, healthcare management, cybersecurity, and retail operati...
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作者：Yan, Zhijun; Kuang, Lini; Qiu, Liangfei
作者单位：Beijing Institute of Technology; Tsinghua University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：With the growth of online mental healthcare platforms, health professionals have been providing online consultation services during their spare time. However, little is known about the prosocial behaviors of health professionals on these platforms and their effect on professionals' economic performance. In this research, we aim to identify and quantify the main effect of prosocial behaviors (i.e., offering free services) on future economic performance and the potential mediation effects of rel...
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作者：Jiao, Yifan; Tang, Christopher S.; Wang, Jingqi
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：In the context of free-to-play (FTP) mobile games, this paper seeks to examine one question: Which factors affect a player's play duration or in-app purchases (of virtual items)? This research question has not been examined in the research literature. But it is an important one because the revenue of an FTP game developer is based on in-app ads watched by players (which depend on play duration) and in-app purchases. Using different regression models to analyze weekly data associated with 100,0...
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作者：Bansal, Saurabh; Muthulingam, Suresh
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The United States has long recognized the potential of improved energy efficiency to profitably reduce energy consumption in manufacturing. The Department of Energy (DOE) has also recognized the potential and initiated several programs to enhance energy efficiency in manufacturing. Despite the attention, studies point out that many energy-efficiency opportunities remain unexploited. Increasingly, scholars have emphasized that behavioral factors could facilitate the uptake of energy-efficiency ...
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作者：Suurmond, Robert; Menor, Larry J.; Wynstra, Finn
作者单位：Maastricht University; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：We study service triads by examining the member-to-member exchanges underpinning service formation, functioning, and feedback. A service triad comprises two serviced customers from the supplier's standpoint and two service providers from the end user's standpoint, which can cause operational complexity and challenges. We view the service triad as an operating entity and study four information-rich cases to improve our understanding of this operational complexity. Leveraging scholarly knowledge...
