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作者：Aflaki, Arian; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.
作者单位：Duke University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This study analyzes the trade-off between funding strategies and operational performance in humanitarian operations. If a Humanitarian Organization (HO) offers donors the option of earmarking their donations, HO should expect an increase in total donations. However, earmarking creates constraints in resource allocation that negatively affect HO's operational performance. We study this trade-off from the perspective of a single HO that maximizes its expected utility as a function of total donat...
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作者：Li, Xiang; Li, Yongjian; Cai, Xiaoqiang; Shan, Jun
作者单位：Nankai University; Nankai University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jinan University
摘要：In recent years, increasing interests have arisen in adding product value through the provision of service. This study considers the problem in which a demand-enhancing service can be provided by different supply chain parties, resulting in four alternative service channels: (a) manufacturer undertaking service, namely M-channel, (b) retailer undertaking service, namely R-channel, (c) manufacturer outsourcing service to third-party (3P), namely M-3P-channel, and (d) retailer outsourcing servic...
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作者：Kor, Yasemin Y.; Mahoney, Joseph T.; Siemsen, Enno; Tan, Danchi
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; National Chengchi University
摘要：Edith Penrose's (1959) classic book, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, made a substantial impact on strategic management research, especially in the context of the resource-based view of the firm, and the ripple effects of her impact continue to unfold today in various disciplines. The book serves as a remarkably rich source of inspiration for scholarly research and a generative source of ideas, which are poised to be further developed. In this study, we examine Penrose's (1959) classic an...
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作者：Starr, Martin K.
作者单位：Rollins College; Columbia University
摘要：The title of this paper might have been Knowledge Creation and Dissemination in the POM Domain. Instead, these accomplished authors (who shall be dubbed with honorable intentions as RSST) define the POM domain as Operations and Supply-Chain Management. Thereby, they leave no doubt that the POM domain spans the entire supply chain from shovels in the mine and seeds in the ground to recycled waste that is remanufactured and sold as new (as well as refurbished) products. RSST declare that sustain...
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作者：Sting, Fabian J.; Loch, Christoph H.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Cambridge
摘要：We study the implementation of operations strategy at six German manufacturers in mature businesses. Search theory argues that vertical coordination (i.e., unilateral top-down adjustment of lower-level search actions) balances stability against the improvement potential enabled by frontline search and also that horizontal coordination (i.e., bilateral adjustment among lower-level search actions) is required to ensure compatibility among the initiatives generated in various organizational subun...
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作者：Zhao, Yukun; Zhao, Xiaobo; Wang, Lihong; Chen, Yefen; Zhang, Xinmeng
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University of Connecticut; Beihang University
摘要：To date, it has not been elucidated whether the strategy method and the direct-response method lead to different behaviors in experiments of economic games. In this study, we investigate this issue under a multi-round setting of the capacity allocation game with both of the elicitation methods. In the first experiment (regular behavioral experiment), subjects are paired to make decisions in a laboratory through a computer network platform. In the second experiment (neuroimaging experiment), th...
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作者：Adida, Elodie; Bakshi, Nitin; DeMiguel, Victor
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of London; London Business School
摘要：We identify market conditions under which intermediaries can thrive in retailer-driven supply chains. Our main finding is that, as a consequence of the retailers' leadership position, intermediaries prefer products for which the supply base (existing production capacity) is neither too narrow nor too broad; that is, less existing capacity can result in more intermediary profit. We also show that our main finding is robust to (i) the presence of horizontal competition among retailers and interm...
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作者：Jacobs, Brian W.; Kraude, Richard; Narayanan, Sriram
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：We examine the relationship between Operational Productivity (OP), Corporate Social Performance (CSP), Financial Performance (FP), and risk. Our sample frame comprises 476 firms in nine US manufacturing industries during the period 1999-2009. We employ DEA-based measures for OP and CSP, two operationalizations for FP to reflect current profitability and market value, and two operationalizations for risk to reflect bankruptcy risk and stock price volatility. We confirm that OP is essential for ...
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作者：Smunt, Timothy L.; Ghose, Sanjoy
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：The flow of jobs within a system is an important operating characteristic that influences system performance. While the majority of previous studies on manufacturing performance consider product flows only as an implicit parameter of the design, we introduce an explicit measure of flow dominance based on entropy and test its efficacy in predicting the performance of manufacturing systems. In computing entropy flow dominance (EFD), we aggregate information embedded in the routings of all produc...
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作者：Gralla, Erica; Goentzel, Jarrod; Fine, Charles
作者单位：George Washington University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：When dealing with urgent, ill-defined problems, such as rapidly evolving emergency situations, operations managers have little time for problem formulation or solution. While the mechanisms by which humans formulate and solve problems have been described, mechanisms for rapid, concurrent formulating and solving are not well understood. This study investigates these mechanisms through a field study of transportation planning in a humanitarian response setting. The findings show that the problem...
