2016

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• Managing R&D Project Shifts in High-Tech Organizations: A Multi-Method Study AI翻译
  作者：Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Linderman, Kevin; Sting, Fabian J.; Benner, Mary J.
  作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
  摘要：High-tech organizations maintain a portfolio of R&D projects that address problems with different levels of complexity. These projects use different strategies to search for technological solutions. Projects refining existing products, processes, and technologies, for instance, employ a local search strategy to improve performance, while projects developing new products, processes, and technologies employ a distant search strategy. However, projects can shift in their levels of complexity due ...
• A State-Feedback Approach to Inventory Control: Analytical and Empirical Studies AI翻译
  作者：Zhao, Yingxue; Zhao, Chuan; He, Mingke; Yang, Changchun
  作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; Beijing Technology & Business University
  摘要：By applying the state feedback principle of control theory, this study develops a state-feedback model that is capable of self-compensation and self-adjustment for inventory control. To be specific, under the state-feedback model, deviation between material order quantity and actual shipment can be dynamically adjusted in response to the actual shipment with the pole-placement state-feedback mechanism. As a result of this merit, the state-feedback model can ensure a more accurate order in each...
• Quality Management in Multi-Level Supply Chains with Outsourced Manufacturing AI翻译
  作者：Dong, Yan; Xu, Kefeng; Xu, Yi; Wan, Xiang
  作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
  摘要：Outsourcing stretches supply chains longer with added contract manufacturers responsible for the manufacturing of parts and final products. Should a firm change its quality management approach as its supply chain becomes longer with outsourced manufacturing? This paper studies a brand owner's optimal choice between two commonly used quality management approaches: an inspection-based approach and an external failure-based approach, in two supply chains - a dyadic supply chain and a multi-level ...
• Gray Markets and Supply Chain Incentives AI翻译
  作者：Shao, Jing; Krishnan, Harish; McCormick, S. Thomas
  作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; University of British Columbia
  摘要：Gray markets are unauthorized channels that distribute a branded product without the manufacturer's permission. Since gray markets are not officially sanctioned by the manufacturer, their existence is assumed to hurt the manufacturer. Yet manufacturers sometimes tolerate or even encourage gray market activities. We investigate the incentives of a manufacturer and its authorized retailer to engage in (or tolerate) gray markets. The firms need to consider the trade-off between the positive effec...
• What Happens When Manufacturers Perform The Retailing Functions? AI翻译
  作者：Li, Jia; Chan, Tat Y.; Lewis, Michael
  作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Washington University (WUSTL); Emory University
  摘要：This study examines the effects of a relatively new channel structure on prices and sales in a large department store, which in recent years has switched the management of many of its product categories from a traditional retailer-managed system to a manufacturer-managed system. We find that the change caused overall retail prices to decrease. However, there was significant heterogeneity in the response across brands. In the cell phone category, brands with high market shares and inelastic dem...
• Product Design Awards and The Market Value of The Firm AI翻译
  作者：Xia, Yusen; Singhal, Vinod R.; Zhang, G. Peter
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
  摘要：Product design has increasingly been recognized as an important source of competitive advantage. This study empirically estimates the impact of effective design on the market value of the firm. We use a firm's receipt of a product design award as a proxy for its design effectiveness. Based on data from 264 announcements of design awards given to commercialized products between 1998 and 2011, we find that award announcements are associated with statistically significant positive stock market re...
• Optimization of Recommender Systems Based on Inventory AI翻译
  作者：Demirezen, Emre M.; Kumar, Subodha
  作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
  摘要：We consider subscription-based rental organizations, such as Netflix, where the satisfaction of customers depends on the availability of requested products. Recommender systems, in a DVD-rental context, are typically used to help customers in finding the right movies for them. Accordingly, the focus in recommender system research is generally on making better predictions of users' ratings. In contrast, we focus on better utilizing these rating estimates in the operations of DVD-rental firms. W...
• Role of Bottom-Up Decision Processes in Improving the Quality of Health Care Delivery: A Contingency Perspective AI翻译
  作者：Senot, Claire; Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Ward, Peter T.
  作者单位：Tulane University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
  摘要：Recent changes to health care reimbursements policy mandate hospitals to improve simultaneously on conformance and experiential quality. Conformance quality measures the level of caregivers' adherence to evidence-based standards of care while experiential quality measures the level of interaction between caregivers and patients. Hospitals operate in regulated environments characterized by heavy top-down control mechanisms that are conducible for improving conformance quality. However, mechanis...
• Reducing Hospital Readmissions by Integrating Empirical Prediction with Resource Optimization AI翻译
  作者：Helm, Jonathan E.; Alaeddini, Adel; Stauffer, Jon M.; Bretthauer, Kurt M.; Skolarus, Ted A.
  作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Hospital readmissions present an increasingly important challenge for health-care organizations. Readmissions are expensive and often unnecessary, putting patients at risk and costing $15billion annually in the United States alone. Currently, 17% of Medicare patients are readmitted to a hospital within 30days of initial discharge with readmissions typically being more expensive than the original visit to the hospital. Recent legislation penalizes organizations with a high readmission rate. The...
• Delegation vs. Control in Supply Chain Procurement under Competition AI翻译
  作者：Bolandifar, Ehsan; Kouvelis, Panos; Zhang, Fuqiang
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Washington University (WUSTL)
  摘要：This paper studies the optimal component procurement strategies of two competing OEMs selling substitutable products. The OEMs outsource their production to a common contract manufacturer, who in turn needs an input from a component supplier. Each OEM may either directly procure the input from the component supplier, or delegate the procurement task to the contract manufacturer. We first analyze the OEMs' procurement game under a non-strategic supplier whose component price is exogenously give...