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作者：Li, Meng; Li, Tao
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Santa Clara University
摘要：Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly changed the supply chain process. In this study, we study the effects associated with AI automation of the retailer's order decision in a decentralized supply chain comprising one supplier and one regretful retailer. In the absence of AI automation, the retailer has a regret bias in that it behaves as though considering the deviation between the realized demand and order quantity, when making an ex ante inventory decision. We find that if profit m...
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作者：Wang, Xunyi; Jiang, Meiling; Han, Wencui; Qiu, Liangfei
作者单位：Baylor University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：The digital technology underlying the concept of Industry 4.0 has brought new disruptive changes to the economy. As an innovative service model, the unique characteristics of the space-sharing economy require the understanding of emotional and psychological aspects in managing such a disruptive service model. We empirically examine the impact of unstructured emotional information that service providers offer (i.e., marketer-generated content) on the popularity and sales of services in space-sh...
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作者：Shen, Bin; Dong, Ciwei; Minner, Stefan
作者单位：Donghua University; Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; Technical University of Munich
摘要：The phenomenon of copycats is common in a wide range of industries. Recently, to indicate product authenticity and combat copycats, many brand name companies (BNCs) have started selling products through retailers. These BNCs deploy a scalable protocol that is integrated into a permissioned blockchain technology (PBT) platform. We examine how PBT combats copycats in the supply chain and how it benefits BNCs. Although PBT implementation helps novice customers identify product authenticity and th...
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作者：Li, Xue; Cai, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jian
作者单位：Beijing Foreign Studies University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; Tsinghua University
摘要：We consider a supply chain consisting of an incumbent national brand manufacturer and a retailer, who wishes to determine the private label encroachment strategy. By investigating the cost-quality trade-off between lower- and higher-quality private labels, we characterize the retailer's optimal encroachment decisions. Intuitively, the retailer would choose to introduce a lower-quality private label when the quality of the national brand is high. However, we find that a higher-quality private l...
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作者：Yang, Nan; Zhang, Renyu
作者单位：University of Miami; New York University; NYU Shanghai; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：We consider a general joint pricing and inventory management model with delayed differentiation, in which a firm serves a market with multiple products made from a generic one. The firm holds inventory for the generic product which is produced using multiple resources. Moreover, the market size, the attractiveness of each product, the firm's productivity, and the procurement cost of each resource all evolve over the planning horizon driven by an exogenous Markov process. Comparative statics an...
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作者：Qiu, Liangfei; Hong, Yili (Kevin); Whinston, Andrew
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
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作者：Zhou, Zenan; Wan, Xiang
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：In this paper, we study the disruptive power of the mobile digital sharing economy to the road freight logistics industry. New information technologies, such as the mobile internet, mobile payment methods, and GPS, have enabled platforms to match freight shippers' demand with carriers' supply by utilizing the convenience and mobility of smartphones. We empirically study the influence of the emergence of mobile digital freight matching platforms in the U.S. on the profitability and stock perfor...
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作者：Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Can technology and operations enable the world to achieve various United Nation Sustainable Development Goals? I provide my own perspective on this question by focusing on the issue of gender equality through the lens of women's economic empowerment. To do so, I use case examples to describe how innovative operations enabled by technologies (mobile phones/online platforms, solar technology, blockchain/AI, and Internet of Things) can empower women to alleviate poverty, reduce hunger by improvin...
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作者：Wang, Peng; Pan, Kai; Yan, Zhenzhen; Lim, Yun Fong
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Bucket brigades are notably used to coordinate workers in production systems. We study a J-station, I-worker bucket brigade system. The time duration for each worker to serve a job at a station is exponentially distributed with a rate that depends on the station's expected work content and the worker's work speed. Our goal is to maximize the system's productivity or to minimize its inter-completion time variability. We analytically derive the throughput and the coefficient of variation (CV) of...
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作者：Wang, Lina; Rabinovich, Elliot; Richards, Timothy J.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University
摘要：Despite a significant rise in consumer interest in local foods, supply constraints limit access to these products in many markets. Online platforms for local foods may help solve these constraints. However, to our knowledge, there is no empirical research on the economic viability of these platforms. We study this problem by analyzing a two-sided platform subject to indirect network effects. If present, these effects will create a virtuous cycle where consumers' demand for products sold throug...
