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作者：Guo, Hong; Easley, Robert F.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：We examine the link between network neutrality (NN) and content innovation on the Internet by comparing the impact of NN and packet discrimination (PD) regimes on content innovation. We do this in the context of a two-sided market model that simultaneously considers content provider (CP) and consumer decisions concerning market entry and participation while taking into account consumers' response to network congestion. We find that content innovation flourishes under NN to a greater degree tha...
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作者：Vickery, Shawnee K.; Koufteros, Xenophon; Droege, Cornelia; Calantone, Roger
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Modularity has the potential to impact various facets of new product introduction performance including product development lead time, frequency of new product introduction, on time introduction and product innovation. The impact of modularity on new product introduction performance, however, may vary for different levels of product and process complexity. This study empirically investigates relationships between perceptual measures of product modularity, process modularity, and new product in...
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作者：Jia, Justin; Xu, Susan H.; Guide, V. Daniel R., Jr.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The management of remanufacturing inventory system is often challenged by mismatched supply (i.e., returned units, called cores) and demand. Typically, the demand for remanufactured units is high and exceeds the supply early in a product's lifetime, and drops below the supply late in the lifetime. This supply-demand imbalance motivates us to study a switching strategy to facilitate the decision-making process. This strategy deploys a push mode at the early stage of a product's lifetime, which ...
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作者：Kyparisis, George J.; Koulamas, Christos
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：We consider multitier push assembly systems with sequential supplier decisions and a wholesale price contract. We show that both an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)-Contract Manufacturer (CM) assembly and a modular assembly with sequential supplier decisions are mathematically equivalent to the corresponding traditional assembly. We determine that, in most cases, the first mover supplier realizes a higher profit than the second mover supplier but we also identify the sufficient conditions...
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作者：Chen, Xin; Zhang, Jiawei
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; New York University
摘要：Sharing common production, resources, and services to reduce cost are important for not for profit operations due to limited and mission-oriented budget and effective cost allocation mechanisms are essential for encouraging effective collaborations. In this study, we illustrate how rigorous methodologies can be developed to derive effective cost allocations to facilitate sustainable collaborations in not for profit operations by modeling the cost allocation problem arising from an economic lot...
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作者：Park, Seung Jae; Lai, Guoming; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Ewha Womans University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：This study investigates the value of inventory sharing in the presence of spot and forward markets. We consider a multi-period setting where two firms process a common commodity to meet stochastic demands. They can buy and sell the commodity through both the spot and forward markets. They can also share the commodity if one has leftover inventory while the other has excess demand. We first characterize the equilibrium strategies of the two firms. Our analysis reveals that in such a context, th...
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作者：Ulrich, Karl T.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Wu, Desheng Dash; Luo, Cuicui; Wang, Haofei; Birge, John R.
作者单位：University of Toronto; Reykjavik University; University of Chicago
摘要：The potential for operational efficiency improvement is a key consideration for firms contemplating the consolidation of both internal and external business units. This paper develops a leader-follower game model to assess such potential gains from the merger of different organizations with constrained resources. A profit-sharing strategy and algorithm are proposed to solve the model while maintaining incentive compatibility within each unit's decision-making process. This paper further demons...
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作者：Ak, B. Korcan; Patatoukas, Panos N.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：What is the link between customer-base concentration and inventory efficiencies in the manufacturing sector? Using hand-collected data from 10-K Filings, we find that manufacturers with more concentrated customer bases hold fewer inventories for less time and are less likely to end up with excess inventories, as indicated by the lower likelihood and magnitude of inventory write-downs and reversals. Using disaggregated inventory disclosures, we find that inventory efficiencies primarily flow th...
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作者：Mishra, Anant; Das, Sidhartha R.; Murray, James J.
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on the US federal government to reduce spending and improve the management of its technology projects. Mitigating the adverse impact of risks on the performance of these projects presents a significant challenge for its stakeholders. Our research examines this challenge in two steps. First, we identify and define a set of salient risks in federal technology projectsspecifically, complexity risk and contracting risk in the planning process, an...
