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作者：Chen, Heng; Solak, Senay
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作者：Grahovac, Jovan; Parker, Geoffrey; Shittu, Ekundayo
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Tulane University; George Washington University
摘要：This study is motivated by examples of outsourcing that are not readily explained by widely established economic theories. We extend recent literature that develops the idea that outsourcing can help firms avoid overinvestment by specifying more precisely the conditions under which this thesis is likely to apply. Our extension is realized through a two-period game theoretic model in which the outsourcing and in-house investments are driven by (1) the cost required to develop a product or proce...
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作者：Bell, David; Gallino, Santiago; Moreno, Antonio
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Dartmouth College; Northwestern University
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作者：Schmidt, William; Gaur, Vishal; Lai, Richard; Raman, Ananth
作者单位：Cornell University; Harvard University
摘要：We analyze a signaling game between the manager of a firm and an investor in the firm. The manager has private information about the firm's demand and cares about the short-term stock price assigned by the investor. Previous research has shown that under continuous decision choices and the Intuitive Criterion refinement, the least-cost separating equilibrium will result, in which a low-quality firm chooses its optimal capacity and a high-quality firm over-invests in order to signal its quality...
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作者：Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Li, Shengli; Liu, Yipeng
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Xi'an Jiaotong University; University of Illinois System
摘要：Limited version, time-locked, and hybrid are three software free trial strategies employed by software firms to exploit increased installed base and/or reduction of consumers' uncertainty about software quality. We develop an analytical model to examine these three software free trial strategies. We find that the hybrid strategy weakly dominates the limited and time-locked versions, and the intensity of the network effects is a key factor determining which strategy is optimal.
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作者：Schmidt, William; Gaur, Vishal; Lai, Richard; Raman, Ananth
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作者：Gray, John V.; Anand, Gopesh; Roth, Aleda V.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Clemson University
摘要：This article examines the influence of ISO 9000 certification on plant-level process compliance, which arguably is its first-order, targeted performance dimension. The empirical setting is the medical device manufacturing industry. Process compliance is measured through Food and Drug Administration inspections of manufacturing plants. We control for several observable factors that possibly affect process compliance by matching certified plants with non-certified plants. Using longitudinal data...
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作者：Shockley, Jeff; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Roth, Aleda V.; Fredendall, Lawrence D.
作者单位：College of Charleston; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Clemson University
摘要：This study uses a service operations management (SOM) strategy lens to investigate chain store retailers' strategic design responsiveness (SDR)-a term that captures the degree to which retailers dynamically coordinate investments in human and structural capital with the complexity of their service and product offerings. Labor force and physical capital are respectively used as proxies for investments in human capital and structural capital, whereas gross margins are proxies for product/service...
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作者：Grahovac, Jovan; Parker, Geoffrey; Shittu, Ekundayo
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作者：Vossen, Thomas W. M.; Zhang, Dan
