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作者：Urrea, Gloria; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.; Besiou, Maria
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：We study volunteer management at a charity storehouse operated by a large faith-based organization. The storehouse runs entirely on volunteer efforts. We investigate the role of volunteer experience and storehouse congestion in the preparation of orders using a multi-method approach. First, we conduct a field study to explore these relationships and collect data at the level of volunteers' teams. These teams can pair volunteers with either different levels of experience (mixed pairing) or equa...
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作者：Pekgun, Pelin; Park, Minseok; Keskinocak, Pinar; Janakiram, Mani
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Intel Corporation; Intel USA
摘要：Through a behavioral study, we investigate buyers' strategic order forecasting behavior in a multi-period setting under a forecast accuracy-based allocation policy, where the supplier allocates (proportionally) more inventory to the buyer with the better order forecast accuracy in case of scarce supply. We developed an interactive game that simulates a supply chain in which one supplier sells a key component to two buyers, who in turn sell to consumers. In each period, buyers share forecasts o...
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作者：Huang, Fengfeng; Guo, Pengfei; Wang, Yulan
作者单位：University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Consider a situation where a service provider serves two types of customers, sophisticated and naive. Sophisticated customers are well-informed of service-related information and make their joining-or-balking decisions strategically, whereas naive customers do not have such information and rely on online rating information to make such decisions. We demonstrate that under certain conditions a service provider can increase its profitability by simply dancing its price, that is, replacing the st...
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作者：Wang, Qi; Feng, Juan; Jiang, Xuping; Xie, Jinhong
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; City University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This study investigates a novel mechanism-multiple-winner award rules-that are widely used in e-procurement auctions and crowdsourcing sites. In many e-procurement auctions, the auctioneer (i.e., the buyer) specifies three rules before the auction starts: (i) the size of the finalist set (from which the winner[s] will be chosen); (ii) the number of winners; and (iii) the allocation of the contract among the winners. We examine how these three rules affect auction performance using a dataset of...
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作者：Sharma, Luv; Queenan, Carrie; Ozturk, Orgul
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Health care organizations have substantially invested in Health Information Technology (HIT) as part of an effort to improve quality. However, many hospitals fail to generate positive returns on this significant investment, based on reimbursements for quality measures through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given the high cost of lawsuits, we investigate if HIT adoption reduces lawsuits, and their attendant costs, as another consideration in HIT payoffs. We use operational transparency theory t...
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作者：Ji, Ran; Kamrad, Bardia
作者单位：George Mason University; Georgetown University
摘要：Using a contingent claims framework, we develop a single period model in the context of an exchange option in a discounted value maximization setting. Given this framework, we study the classic problem of determining stockpiling levels prior to demand realization when the procured/produced levels are subject to random yield variations. In this set up, both demand and yield variables are modeled as Wiener processes. A pure noise (zero drift) process initially models yield dynamics. Later, we co...
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作者：Gan, Xianghua; Feng, Qi; Sethie, Suresh P.
作者单位：Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We study a retailer's sourcing contract when the supplier's reservation profit (offered by his outside options) depends on his cost, which is privately known to only the supplier. An interesting discovery from our analysis is that supply chain coordination may be achieved despite the information asymmetry between the two firms regarding the supplier's type (i.e., his cost). This happens when the marginal contribution of the supplier's cost efficiency to the trade matches with the supplier's ma...
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作者：Wu, Qi; Muthuraman, Kumar; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper studies the effects of bank credit availability, trade credit and the capital cost on inventory decisions. There are two competing theories on the effect of bank credit lines on investments. While one (Lins et al. 2010) suggests that the primary role played by undrawn credit is to finance new opportunities, the other (Acharya et al. 2014) suggests that undrawn credit serves primarily as a bank monitored liquidity insurance. We attempt to resolve these two conflict views in the conte...
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作者：Guo, Hong; Zhao, Xuying; Hao, Lin; Liu, De
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Reward advertising is an emerging monetization mechanism for app developers in which consumers choose to view ads in exchange for apps' premium content. We provide the first economic analysis of reward advertising by studying the implications of offering reward ads, either by itself, or in conjunction with direct selling of premium content. We find that the condition for offering reward ads is surprisingly simple, and it is often optimal to offer reward ads jointly with direct selling of premi...
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作者：Scott, Alex
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Buyers often procure distinct goods and services from the same supplier. Accordingly, business exchanged in one setting may affect exchanges between the buyer and supplier in other settings. We study how business procured via online business-to-business (B2B) auctions is affected by business exchanged between the buyer and supplier concurrent to the auctions (concurrent business). Using two transactional datasets, one with auctions held by a large buyer of transportation services over a 4-year...
