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作者：Perdikaki, Olga; Kumar, Subodha; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：The performance of a retail store depends on its ability to attract customer traffic, match labor with incoming traffic, and convert the incoming traffic into sales. Retailers make significant investments in marketing activities (such as advertising) to bring customers into their stores and in-store labor to convert that traffic into sales. Thus, a common trade-off that retail store managers face concerns the allocation of a store's limited budget between advertising and labor to enhance store...
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作者：Handley, Sean M.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：Notwithstanding the popularity of outsourcing as a business strategy, the performance benefits realized through outsourcing efforts are observed to be mixed in practice. This leads to important unresolved questions regarding why some firms are able to derive substantial value from their outsourcing initiatives while other firms are left disappointed. This study joins an emerging literature integrating transaction cost economics and capabilities-based perspectives to develop a deeper understand...
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作者：Tang, Wenjie; Girotra, Karan
作者单位：National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We study the use of advance purchase discount (APD) contracts to incentivize a retailer to share demand information with a dual-sourcing wholesaler. We analyze such contracts in terms of two practical considerations that are relevant in this context but have been overlooked by previous work that has largely studied the direct offer of APD to customers: the retailer's information acquisition cost and the wholesaler's limited information about that cost. The wholesaler's limited knowledge of the...
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作者：Villena, Veronica H.; Craighead, Christopher W.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Research on buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs) has often focused on only one side of the relationship and, thus, has tended to overlook asymmetries. Yet, a buyer (supplier) may often deal with a bigger supplier (buyer) or one that has higher levels of trust, respect, and reciprocity. Therefore, we examined how two types of asymmetriessize and relational capitalaffect perceived opportunism and performance. We used dyadic data from 106 buyers and their matched suppliers gathered from a survey a...
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作者：Phadnis, Shardul S.; Sheffi, Yossi; Caplice, Chris; Singh, Mahender
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：The nature of operations executives' strategic cognition, as the antecedent to their choices about operations strategy, remains underexplored in the literature. This mixed-methods study examines executives' thinking about supply chain strategy through the lens of managerial cognition. Our qualitative study at a pharmaceutical distributor, which examined 25 executives' outlook on the future of the turbulent U.S. healthcare sector and their suggestions for adapting the company's supply chain str...
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作者：Kettunen, Janne; Salo, Ahti
作者单位：George Washington University; Aalto University
摘要：In project portfolio selection, the aim is to choose projects which are expected to offer most value and satisfy relevant risk and other constraints. In this study, we show that uncertainties about how much value the projects will offer, combined with the fact that only a subset of the proposed projects will be selected, lead to inaccurate risk estimates about the aggregate value provided by the selected project portfolio. In particular, when downside risks are measured in terms of lower perce...
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作者：Feng, Tianjun; Zhang, Yinghao
作者单位：Fudan University; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
摘要：This study experimentally investigates ordering behavior in the competitive newsvendor problem. We consider a duopoly market setting with two identical newsvendors selling the same perishable goods in a common market. Our experimental results show that average observed orders systematically deviate from the Nash equilibrium, and exhibit a similar pull-to-center pattern as in the classic non-competitive newsvendor experiments: average orders fall below the Nash equilibrium in the high-margin co...
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作者：Schoenherr, Tobias; Bendoly, Elliot; Bachrach, Daniel G.; Hood, Anthony C.
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要：Task interdependence has received a great deal of attention as a critical driver of project dynamics. This study focuses on one of these key dynamics: helping among information technology (IT) implementation project team members. We uniquely distinguish between perceptions of receiving more help than one personally provides to other team members (positive inequity), vs. giving more than one receives (negative inequity). We argue, using an equity theory frame, that members have a tendency to re...
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作者：Jiang, Lifei; Dimitrov, Stanko; Mantin, Benny
作者单位：University of Waterloo
摘要：Can peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces benefit traditional supply chains when consumers may experience valuation risk? P2P marketplaces can mitigate consumers' risk by allowing them to trade mismatched goods; yet, they also impose a threat to retailers and their suppliers as they compete over consumers. Further, do profit-maximizing marketplaces always extract the entire consumer surplus from the online trades? Our two-period model highlights the effects introduced by P2P marketplaces while accou...
