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作者：Chen, Jian; Huang, He; Liu, Liming; Xu, Hongyan
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Chongqing University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：In this study, we examine the effect of the differences in both sales ability and reservation utility on the design of the pricing scheme and compensation contract under asymmetric information. Heterogeneity with ability-dependent reservation utility generates conflicted screening and pooling effects that preclude separating and pooling equilibria, respectively; with which agents may work harder under either centralized or delegated pricing scheme than if they were homogeneous and, in certain ...
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作者：Senot, Claire
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：The article Continuity of Care and Risk of Readmission: An Investigation into the Healthcare Journey of Heart Failure Patients won the 2020 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award. This award recognizes the valuable contributions provided by academic research that is anchored in a deep understanding of industries. In this article, I discuss how my interactions with practitioners challenged me and ultimately shaped many critical aspects of the awarded study.
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作者：Sun, Haoyan; Chen, Jianqing; Fan, Ming
作者单位：Lehigh University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Over the years, online retailers have increasingly embraced live chat to improve customer service and facilitate transactions. We examine how online sellers' use of live chat influences their online traffic conversion into sales. Like brick-and-mortar stores, a fundamental task for online stores is to convert traffic into purchases, an important problem in retail service operations management. We argue that live chat can increase online sales conversion by performing the functions of informing...
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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：Chang, Xiangyu; Huang, Yinghui; Li, Mei; Bo, Xin; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：The detection of environmental violators is critical to the long-term adoption of sustainability in supply chain management. However, there exist manufacturing facilities that report false environmental monitoring data, thereby seriously hampering governments' efforts to identify true offenders and to properly intervene. We integrate waste gas data from the world's largest Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) with a publicly available Violation and Punishment Dataset (VPD) to build pre...
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作者：Ma, Siqi; Hao, Li; Aloysius, John A.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Akron; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：A large body of literature has documented gender differences in prosocial behaviors, but little is known about the implications of different gender pairings of partner firm agents for supply chain performance. Using a production decision experiment which features asymmetric information and asymmetric risk sharing, we report three key findings. First, women are more collaborative than men in the role of both buying agents and supply agents. Second, information about counterparts' gender affects...
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作者：Kumar, V.; Kumar, Subodha; Leone, Robert P.
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas Christian University
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作者：Fan, Xiaoshuai; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We examine a (large) manufacturer's bribery decision (to bribe or not to bribe) arising from a procurement auction under disparate corruption pressure when another (small) manufacturer is known to offer the auctioneer (i.e., the intermediary) a bribe in exchange for the right of first refusal. We discover that the large manufacturer should refuse to pay bribes at all times in order to prevent from leaking its private cost information to the small manufacturer and prevent from intensifying the ...
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作者：Zhang, Jiahua; Qi, Lian; Tong, Shilu
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data
摘要：We investigate a dynamic contracting problem in a supply chain with a manufacturer selling a seasonal product through a retailer over two periods. In period 1, which is before the selling season, neither firm knows the demand information. The manufacturer runs on the regular production mode with low production cost but long lead time. In period 2, which refers to the selling season, only the retailer can update the demand information, so information asymmetry exists in the supply chain. The ma...
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作者：Haubitz, Christiane B.; Thonemann, Ulrich W.
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：Inventory optimization approaches typically optimize steady-state performance, but do not consider the transition of an initial state to the optimized state. In this study, we address this transition. Our research is motivated by a company that implemented an improved inventory policy for its spare parts division. The improved policy suggested new base stock levels for the majority of the parts. For parts with increased base stock levels, inventory increases were realized after the part lead t...
