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作者：Du, Jinzhao; Lei, Ying
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Peking University
摘要：Companies that provide a two-sided platform for users to proactively seek a match face great challenges in increasing matching efficiency and ensuring match quality. This paper examines how information designs can be used to improve matching outcomes when users derive utility from a match's vertical attribute (i.e., quality) and its horizontal attribute (i.e., idiosyncratic fit). We consider a game-theoretic model in which competing senders propose matching requests to competing receivers and ...
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作者：Xing, Wei; Ma, Shanshan; Zhao, Xuan; Liu, Liming
作者单位：China University of Petroleum; Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting & Finance; Wilfrid Laurier University; Southern University of Science & Technology
摘要：We study the risk management strategies of two manufacturers that procure a commodity from a supplier to produce a final product and compete in a downstream market. The manufacturers can adopt financial hedging to reduce profit variability or spot trading to mitigate the demand-supply mismatch risk, and they can also combine these two strategies or adopt neither of them. We characterize the equilibria of several representative games where two different risk management strategies are available,...
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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...
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作者：Pun, Hubert; Hou, Pengwen
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Tianjin University of Finance & Economics
摘要：We examine how different strategies can be used to protect global manufacturers from the prevalent issue of supplier copycatting in emerging markets. In particular, using a game-theoretical model, we consider a manufacturer that sells a product to an emerging market, which requires the completion of multiple tasks. The manufacturer can perform any of these tasks in-house or outsource any of them to an emerging market supplier. The former approach carries a higher cost, while the latter puts th...
