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作者：Wu, Yaozhong; Ramachandran, Karthik; Krishnan, Vish
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：The rising trend of projects with high-skilled and autonomous contributors increasingly exposes managers to the risk of idiosyncratic individual behaviors. In this article, we examine the effects of an important behavioral factor, an individual's cost salience. Cost salience leads individuals to perceive the cost of immediate effort to be larger than the cost of future effort. This leads to procrastination in early stages and back-loaded effort over the course of the project. We model the prob...
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作者：Balakrishnan, P. V. (Sundar); Pathak, Surya
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell
摘要：Models of innovation diffusion typically depict an inexorable momentum once the process begins to roll. Limited production capacity, however, can place a cap on this process, leading to waiting lines of potential customers, thus diminishing overall service quality and the speed of diffusion. Identifying the minimum production capacity needed for unimpeded and unimpaired diffusion can ensure that there are no customers waiting to adopt the product. We propose a production-capacity-constrained d...
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作者：McCoy, Jessica H.; Lee, Hau L.
作者单位：Nike Inc; Stanford University
摘要：Inefficiency and inequity are two challenges that plague humanitarian operations and health delivery in resource-limited regions. Increasing capacity in humanitarian and health delivery supply chains is one option that has the potential to improve equity while maintaining efficiency. For example, the nonprofit organization Riders for Health has worked to increase capacity by providing reliable transportation to health workers in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa; with more motorcycle hours at ...
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作者：Cai, Xiaoqiang; Zhou, Xian
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Macquarie University
摘要：We consider a problem where a firm produces a variety of fresh products to supply two markets: an export market and a local market. A public transportation service is utilized to deliver the products to the export market, which is cheap, but its schedule is often disrupted severely. Each time this happens, the firm faces the following questions. (i) For a product that has been finished and is waiting for delivery to the export market, should it continue to wait, at an increasing risk of decay,...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Fang, Xiang; Ru, Jun; Wang, Yunzeng
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：We study a decentralized assembly supply chain in which an assembler (she) assembles a set of n components, each produced by a different supplier (he), into a final product to satisfy an uncertain market demand. Each supplier holds private cost information to himself, for which the assembler only has a subjective estimate. Furthermore, the assembler believes that the suppliers' costs follow a joint discrete probability distribution. The assembler aims to design an optimal menu of contracts to ...
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作者：Choo, Adrian S.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This study examines how time spent in problem definition affects problem solving in projects such as Six Sigma projects. Our hypotheses are tested using data collected from 1558 Six Sigma projects in a company. The results show evidence of a U-shaped relationship between the amount of time spent in the Define phase and project duration. This finding suggests that spending too little time on problem definition potentially causes poor problem formulation, which leads to deficient problem solving...
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作者：Moritz, Brent; Siemsen, Enno; Kremer, Mirko
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This research analyzes how individual differences affect performance in judgmental time-series forecasting. Decision makers with the ability to balance intuitive judgment with cognitive deliberation, as measured by the cognitive reflection test, tend to have lower forecast errors. This relationship holds when controlling for intelligence. Furthermore, forecast errors increase for very fast or very slow decisions. We provide evidence that forecast performance can be improved by manipulating dec...
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作者：Kretschmer, Andreas; Spinler, Stefan; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; INSEAD Business School
摘要：School feeding is an established development aid intervention with multiple objectives including education, nutrition, and value transfer. Traditionally run by international organizations in low-income settings, school feeding programs have had a substantial impact in many less-developed countries. However, recent rethinking by the World Bank and the World Food Programme has prompted a shift toward long-term, sustainable solutions that rely more upon local resources, local capacity, and commun...
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作者：Cattani, Kyle D.; Souza, Gilvan C.; Ye, Shengqi
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Online customers expect to wait, sometimes for a delay of many days. At the fulfillment center, there might be an opportunity to fill customer orders earlier than the due date through a cross-docking transaction: rather than picking the item from inventory, the item moves directly from the receiving to the shipping dock, saving shelving and picking transactions. While cross docking reduces shelving and picking costs, it risks changing customer expectations for how soon a product will be delive...
