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作者：Leung, Woon Sau; Li, Jing; Sun, Jiong
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; Tsinghua University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：We investigate whether labor unionization of customer firms affects the operating performance of their dependent suppliers. Using a sample of U.S. union elections, our regression discontinuity tests show that passing a union election leads to a 6.9 percentage-point decline in supplier operating margin in the following year. Such negative effects are more pronounced for customers with stronger bargaining power vis-a-vis dependent suppliers. Additional tests show that the reduced supplier operat...
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作者：Lin, Mei; Pan, Xiajun Amy; Zheng, Quan
作者单位：Singapore Management University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：Two-sided platforms are often coupled with exclusive hardware products that connect two sides of users, the consumers of the hardware product (i.e., buyers) and the application developers (i.e., sellers). The hardware product in the platform business model introduces three important issues that are not yet well understood in the literature of platform pricing: potentially downward-trending production cost, product quality improvements, and consumers' strategic behaviors. Using analytical model...
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作者：Hu, Bin; Mai, Yunke; Pekec, Sasa
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Kentucky; Duke University
摘要：When an innovator outsources the manufacturing of an innovative product to a contract manufacturer (CM) which is also a competitor in the end market, the potential innovation spillover may be a serious concern. We study an innovator's outsourcing decision under spillover risks with an emphasis on theex anteuncertain values of innovations, and distinguish between technical innovations which can only spill over through outsourcing and non-technical innovations which can also spill over in the ma...
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作者：Hekimoglu, Mert Hakan; Kazaz, Burak
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Syracuse University
摘要：Earlier publications indicate that the price of young wines cannot be estimated accurately through weather conditions. Considering that a majority of fine wine is sold in the form of wine futures, even before the wine is bottled, determining realistic prices for these wine futures accurately is one of the most critical decisions. Surveys of leading wine merchants and industry experts exhibit significant departures from the realized market prices. We develop a pricing model for fine wines using...
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作者：Li, Rong
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Retailers such as Best Buy are reinventing their supply chains for the era of Omnichannel with new strategies like ship-from-store-to-store (SFSTS) where stores are also used as shipping points. Under the SFSTS practice, to fill the demand (offline and online) from a customer region, two or more nearby stores of the retailers' frequently replenish from each other as well as from a distribution center (DC) to better prepare inventory before the demand arrives. We study how to best replenish the...
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作者：Karatzas, Antonios; Papadopoulos, Georgios; Godsell, Janet
作者单位：University of East Anglia; University of East Anglia; University of Warwick
摘要：Manufacturers moving into services must design a service delivery system that can effectively and efficiently support their product-service offerings. Commonly, such manufacturers outsource customer service and support to independent service suppliers, while maintaining the ownership and control of certain service units. Despite the increasing number of studies in service triads investigating ways that may improve service performance and customer satisfaction, the dynamics of mixed-ownership s...
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作者：Tan, Tom F.; Staats, Bradley R.
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We first theoretically identify the factors that may impact individuals' routing decisions before empirically examining a large operational dataset in a casual restaurant setting. Analytical models have identified various routing algorithms for service operations management. Although each model may offer advantages over others, they all make a key assumption - decision makers will actually follow the algorithms, if implemented. However, in many settings routing is not done by a computer that i...
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作者：Xiao, Binqing; Xiao, Wenqiang
作者单位：Nanjing University; New York University
摘要：In this study, we characterize the optimal compensation scheme for a firm that sells a single product with a limited stocking quantity through a sales agent. Our focus is on understanding how the supply-demand mismatch costs affect the firm's optimal compensation scheme. There are two main findings. First, under the deterministic demand response, the classical optimality result of the convex increasing compensation scheme breaks with the consideration of supply-demand mismatch costs. Instead, ...
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作者：Park, Chong Hyun; Berenguer, Gemma
作者单位：Sejong University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：Inspired by the World Food Programme's activity in the post-civil war food crisis in Angola, this study proposes a systematic approach to address the location distribution problem in not-for-profit settings, where a limited volume of supply has to be allocated to different demand regions. The use of utility functions is key in our framework because it allows the decision-maker to establish priorities by representing the heterogeneous effects of distributing supply to different demand locations...
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作者：Anh Ninh; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Lariviere, Martin A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University
摘要：Most pricing and revenue management models have at their core an optimization problem; one needs to determine the optimal price or quantity to maximize a profit or revenue function. To ensure tractability, conditions that assure the objective function has a unique solution are enormously helpful. So far, several technical assumptions have been proposed for the continuous case, but comparatively little attention has been given to the discrete counterpart despite its prevalence in practice. Thus...
