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作者：Villena, Veronica H.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The increasing number of scandals about supplier violations of environmental and social regulations has put multinational companies' (MNCs) reputations at risk. Customers make MNCs accountable for such violations, regardless of whether the violations involve tier-one or lower-tier suppliers. To address this pressure, some MNCs require their tier-one suppliers to comply with their sustainability requirements and ask them to cascade such requirements to their (lower-tier) suppliers. This researc...
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作者：Feldman, Jacob; Paul, Alice
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Brown University
摘要：We study the classic assortment optimization problem in which a retailer seeks the revenue maximizing set of products to offer to each arriving customer. This study relates two variants of this assortment problem: the space constrained assortment problem, in which the retailer has a limit on the total space of the offered assortment, and the fixed cost assortment problem, in which the retailer incurs a fixed cost for each offered product. In particular, we develop an approximation scheme for t...
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作者：Deo, Sarang; Jain, Aditya
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：Many service environments such as outpatient departments comprise repeated episodes of finite duration wherein customers arriving during an episode must be served before the end of that episode. Scheduling resources and customer arrivals in such settings involves trading off customer wait against resources' time and effort. We hypothesize that this trade-off leads to a slow first, fast later pattern of system speed, which allows build-up of inventory earlier for more efficient utilization of f...
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作者：Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU); Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：Cloud providers such as Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft are leasing their computing resources to various businesses providing them an alternative to investing in expensive hardware. Although recent information systems research has examined pricing-related issues in cloud computing, several important questions still remain. For example, how should buyers decide on the capacity portfolio of private and public clouds? What is the impact of the buyer's demand uncertainty on the capacity portfolio decis...
