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作者:Valogianni, Konstantina; Ketter, Wolfgang; Collins, John; Zhdanov, Dmitry
作者单位:IE University; University of Cologne; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要:A transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is widely assumed to be an important step along the road to environmental sustainability. However, large-scale adoption of EVs may put electricity grids under critical strain, since peaks in electricity demand are likely to increase radically. Efforts to manage demand peaks through pricing schemes may create new peaks at low-price periods, if large numbers of EV owners use smart charging to benefit from low prices. This effect is expected to be amplified...
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作者:Song, Peijian; Wang, Quansheng; Liu, Hefu; Li, Qi
作者单位:Nanjing University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Zhejiang Gongshang University
摘要:The buy-online-and-pickup-in-store (BOPS) service has been widely treated by retailers as an important omni-channel initiative. However, few studies have attempted to quantify the impact of BOPS usage on subsequent purchase behaviors or examine the critical roles of offline stores in the value generation of BOPS. Thus, through 25,724 BOPS instances used by 16,202 unique customers via a hybrid retailer, this study investigated the impact of customers' BOPS usage on their online and offline purc...
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作者:Yoo, Eunae; Rabinovich, Elliot; Gu, Bin
作者单位:University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Boston University
摘要:Information is a perishable resource that is costly to produce and distribute to stakeholders. To ensure the rapid and broad diffusion of this resource, humanitarian organizations (HOs) have become increasingly intent on building larger follower networks on social media platforms. Our study examines the growth of these networks, particularly in response to the sharing of social media content originally produced by the HOs during periods of normalcy and emergency. To analyze this phenomenon, we...
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作者:Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Kumar, Subodha; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:We analyze a case where two competing firms, a personalizing firm that makes product recommendations and a non-personalizing firm that does not recommend products, compete with each other and may participate in a data sharing alliance (in which the non-personalizing firm shares its data with the personalizing firm). The customer is strategic as she first visits the personalizing firm to find out what product to purchase among the recommended ones and purchases the product eventually from one o...
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作者:Nakkas, Alper; Alan, Yasin; Kurtulus, Mumin
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Vanderbilt University
摘要:Category captainship (CC) is a supply chain practice in which a retailer collaborates with a manufacturer to develop and implement a category management strategy. We examine the role of retail competition in CC implementations by analyzing a game-theoretic setting with two competing retailers. We first consider a benchmark model in which both retailers adopt traditional category management. Then, we consider a CC model in which the focal retailer implements CC. Comparing the equilibrium outcom...
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作者:Shi, Tianqin; Chhajed, Dilip; Wan, Zhixi; Liu, Yunchuan
作者单位:California State University System; San Jose State University; California State University System; San Jose State University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Hong Kong; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要:We consider a firm consisting of two divisions, one responsible for designing and manufacturing new products and the other responsible for remanufacturing operations. The firm will sell these new and remanufactured products either directly to the consumer (direct selling) or through an independent retailer (indirect selling). Our study demonstrates that a firm's organizational structure can affect its marketing decisions. Specifically, a decentralized firm with separate manufacturing and reman...
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作者:Esenduran, Gokce; Hill, James A.; Noh, In Joon
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Each year, global consumers dispose of 20 million-50 million tons of electronic products, including laptops, tablets, and, most commonly, cell phones. Realizing the residual value in used electronics, consumers frequently look for ways to sell their devices, whereas independent parties (IPs) such as Gazelle and NextWorth and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Apple compete in acquiring them. These firms also compete with online marketplaces such as eBay, which offer a channel for ...
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作者:Mehrotra, Mili; Natarajan, Karthik, V
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:The below-par progress toward the Millennium Development Goals in many developing countries has been attributed to the low availability of good quality health care services and to the demand-side barriers to access. In this study, we analyze an incentive design problem faced by a budget-constrained humanitarian organization managing a health care service program (e.g., maternal health or HIV services) with different emphasis on the two measures of quality-structural and process. Incentives off...
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作者:Songhori, Mohsen Jafari; Nasiry, Javad
作者单位:University of Twente; McGill University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要:Developing a complex new product requires the firm both to deconstruct that product into subsystems and to create an organizational structure aligned with the product architecture. However, empirical evidence indicates that misalignments do occur and are usually one of two general forms: a hidden dependency, which is a missing link between teams responsible for two interacting subsystems; or spurious communications between two teams that interact even though their respective subsystems are not...
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作者:Zhang, Hailun; Zhang, Jiheng; Zhang, Rachel Q.
作者单位:The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要:The two fundamental decisions in the management of perishable inventory are how much new inventory to order and how much old inventory to clear before expiration. These decisions are known to be difficult due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose policies that are much simpler and easier to implement than existing ones in the literature. Our analysis revealed interesting insights into the circumstances under which perishability is negligible. This intuition not only leads to the construct...