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作者：Altug, Mehmet Sekip
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Gray markets are created by unauthorized retailers selling manufacturer's branded products. Similar to international gray markets, domestic gray markets are a growing phenomenon whose impact on supply chains is not clear. We consider a supply chain with one manufacturer and several authorized retailers who face a newsvendor problem and a domestic gray market. While a gray market provides an opportunity for retailers to clear their excess inventory (inventory-correction effect), it also can be ...
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作者：Meistering, Malte; Stadtler, Hartmut
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：In practice, deterministic, multi-period lot-sizing models are implemented in rolling schedules since this allows the revision of decisions beyond the frozen horizon. Thus, rolling schedules are able to take realizations and updated forecasts of uncertain data (e.g., customer demands) into account. Furthermore, it is common to hold safety stocks to ensure given service levels (e.g., fill rate). As we will show, this approach, implemented in rolling schedules, often results in increased setup a...
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作者：Gu, Tiantian; Sanders, Nada R.; Venkateswaran, Anand
作者单位：Northeastern University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：This study explores how suppliers adjust their relation-specific investments (RSI) in response to the different risk-taking incentives provided by the customer firm to its CEO, during normal and transition periods. We investigate this relation using 17,553 customer-supplier transactions over the 1993-2013 period. We find strong evidence consistent with the risk-taking argument. Specifically, we find that an increase in the risk-taking incentives of customer CEOs leads to a decline in suppliers...
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作者：Li, Rong; Ryan, Jennifer K.; Zeng, Zhi
作者单位：Nankai University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：We consider supplier-facilitated transshipments for achieving supply chain coordination in a single supplier, multi-retailer distribution system with non-cooperative retailers. The previous transshipment literature has focused on coordination through retailer-negotiated transshipments and thus does not consider the supplier's decision-making. In contrast, in this study, we assume the supplier is an active participant in the system and we seek to understand how the supplier can facilitate the i...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Hora, Manpreet
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Organizational learning includes processes of creating, retaining and transferring knowledge and has implications for the performance and competitiveness of organizations. Given the knowledge-based view of resources inherent in management of technology (MOT), in this study, we adopt an organizational learning framework that considers knowledge to be embedded in three major components of organizationsmembers, tasks and toolsand the networks formed by crossing them. We present research related t...
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作者：Guan, Xu; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Wuhan University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This study investigates the interactions between a manufacturer's information acquisition and quality disclosure strategies in a supply chain setting in which the manufacturer privately knows his product quality but is uncertain about consumer preferences. We argue that the manufacturer should treat his information acquisition and quality disclosure decisions as an integrated process because these decisions can significantly influence a retailer's rational inferences about product quality and ...
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作者：Chau, Ngan N.; Desiraju, Ramarao
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University Nebraska Kearney; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：When network effects are important and technology is rapidly improved, this study explores the relative optimality of five product introduction strategies of a durable goods manufacturer: (1) replacement, (2) skipping, (3) a delayed line, (4) shelving, and (5) line-extension. Using a two-period analytical model, we show how the type of compatibility-either full or backward compatibility-and the magnitude of the network effect influence the manufacturer's preference for the above strategies. Ou...
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作者：Bicer, Isik; Seifert, Ralf W.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：We consider a manufacturer without any frozen periods in production schedules so that it can dynamically update the schedules as the demand forecast evolves over time until the realization of actual demand. The manufacturer has a fixed production capacity in each production period, which impacts the time to start production as well as the production schedules. We develop a dynamic optimization model to analyze the optimal production schedules under capacity constraint and demand-forecast updat...
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作者：Phadnis, Shardul S.; Fine, Charles H.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study examines the tradeoffs in sourcing and sales strategies (i.e., upstream and downstream supply chain strategies) by considering them as components of an integral end-to-end supply chain strategy. We evaluate four end-to-end supply chain strategies under various scenarios using a newsvendor model, and compare the model's predictions against the prescriptions in Fisher's () framework, which recommends cost-efficient supply chains for functional products and responsive supply chains for...
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作者：Dong, Ciwei; Ng, Chi To; Cheng, T. C. E.
作者单位：Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：In this article, we study the electricity time-of-use (TOU) tariff for an electricity company with stochastic demand. The electricity company offers the flat rate (FR) and TOU tariffs to customers. Under the FR tariff, the customer pays a flat price for electricity consumption in both the peak and non-peak periods. Under the TOU tariff, the customer pays a high price for electricity consumption in the peak period and a low price for electricity consumption in the non-peak period. The electrici...
