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作者：Wang, Kangzhou; Chen, Shouchang; Jiang, Zhibin; Zhou, Weihua; Geng, Na
作者单位：Lanzhou University; Zhejiang University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Manufacturing servitization has become a major trend in industry that is implemented by so called integrated production and service systems (IPSSs) to offer not only products but also their associated services. In this study, we explore the capacity allocation policy for an IPSS that consists of a manufacturing facility and a service center. The IPSS serves two classes of customers, each demanding a specific product produced at the manufacturing facility and, subsequently, the associated servi...
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作者：Chen, Jiguang; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Xiamen University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Motivated by company+farmer farming operations of Wens, New Hope Liuhe, and Huiren, this study formalizes the impact of production-management and resource-providing types of contract farming, in which the buying firm commits to an ex ante procurement price and promises to buy the high-value agricultural product (HVA) from contract farmers. We analyze the buyer's cost reduction effort and its impact on farmer participation to characterize the effect of contract farming on the agricultural produ...
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作者：Ju, Jaehyeon; Cho, Daegon; Lee, Jae Kyu; Ahn, Jae-Hyeon
作者单位：McGill University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：Although spam email messages have been the primary source of cybercrime since the early Internet era, there is no quick fix to this problem. Governments have established anti-spam legislation, but surprisingly, there has been no measurement of policy impact. This study aims to fill the gap by utilizing a quasi-experimental setting in South Korea, where the anti-spam policy was substantially amended in November 2014. A significant change was in the default setting, switching from an opt-out to ...
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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：Tang, Qian; Lin, Mei; Kim, Youngsoo
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：This study empirically examines the effect of offline store entry on a competing online retailer in the footwear industry and investigates how this effect depends on the relative product assortment and price between the offline store and the online retailer. Using transaction data from a large online footwear retailer and offline store entry data from 19 major shoe retail chains and 3 department store chains, we quantify the entry effect of offline stores. Categorizing offline stores by assort...
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作者：Wang, Ningning; Li, Zhuoxin
作者单位：China University of Petroleum; Boston College
摘要：The development of e-commerce has greatly facilitated the practice that suppliers encroach upon the retail realm of downstream retailers through direct channels (e.g., online stores). The literature in this area has investigated profit-maximizing firms, but the role of other organizational structures is not well understood. This study studies supplier encroachment in which the retailer is a dual-purpose corporation that pursues his own profit as well as consumer surplus. We find that the retai...
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作者：Hardcopf, Rick; Shah, Rachna; Dhanorkar, Suvrat
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; Utah State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Spill and pollution (SP) accidents cause significant damage to the natural environment. They also result in financial costs and reputational losses for the offending firm. As such, understanding how firms respond to such crises is of significant interest to firm stakeholders, such as investors, customers, regulators, NGOs, employees, and local communities. In this study, we examine whether publicly disclosed SP accidents cause firms to alter their approach to environmental management, as expre...
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作者：Anokhin, Dmitry; Dehghanian, Payman; Lejeune, Miguel A.; Su, Jinshun
作者单位：George Washington University; George Washington University
摘要：Inspired by the opportunities provided by the Industry 4.0 technologies for smarter, risk-informed, safer, and resilient operation, control, and management of the lifeline critical networks, this study investigates mobility-as-a-service for resilience delivery during natural disasters. Focusing on effective service restoration in power distribution systems, we introduce mobile power sources (MPSs) as the restoration technology of the future, the mobility of which can be harnessed for spatiotem...
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作者：Chakravarty, Amiya K.
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：A rideshare platform acts as an aggregator that connects riders with ride providers (drivers). The drivers are independent workers who share a part of their revenue with the principal, who owns the platform. While drivers have flexible schedules, the fairness of labor contracts and control exercised by the principal have come into question lately. Suggested options include treating the drivers as employees and/or safeguarding a minimum income for them. We study a rideshare platform with blende...
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作者：Hasankhani, Farhad; Khademi, Amin
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：Identifying an efficient and fair allocation of limited donated hearts to patients on the waiting list is one of the top priorities in heart transplantation management. The recent heart allocation rule by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has emphasized medical urgency to address the heart transplant crisis by further dividing the previous sickest patient group into three subgroups. However, there is a significant debate on optimality and fairness of this policy because although it c...
