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作者：Zhou, Wenhui; Chao, Xiuli; Gong, Xiting
作者单位：South China University of Technology; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：When facing heterogeneous customers, how should a service firm make its pricing decision to maximize revenue? If discrimination is allowed, then priority schemes and differentiated pricing are often used to achieve that. In many applications, however, the firm cannot or is not allowed to set discriminatory prices, for example, list price in retail stores, online shopping, and gas stations; thus a uniform price must be applied to all customers. This study addresses the optimal uniform pricing p...
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作者：Chen, Xin; Shum, Stephen; Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; City University of Hong Kong; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We analyze a decentralized supply chain with a single risk-averse retailer and multiple risk-averse suppliers under a Conditional Value at Risk objective. We define coordinating contracts and show that the supply chain is coordinated only when the least risk-averse agent bears the entire risk and the lowest-cost supplier handles all production. However, due to competition, not all coordinating contracts are stable. Thus, we introduce the notion of contract core, which reflects the agents' barg...
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作者：Thuerer, Matthias; Stevenson, Mark; Silva, Cristovao; Land, Martin J.; Fredendall, Lawrence D.; Melnyk, Steven A.
作者单位：Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos; Lancaster University; Universidade de Coimbra; University of Groningen; Clemson University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：A lead time that is short, predictable, and reliable is an increasingly important criterion in supplier selection. Although many companies may achieve this through lean implementation, high-variety manufacturers, for example, small and medium-sized make-to-order companies, have found that lean's planning and control techniques do not apply. This article outlines a planning and control concept known as workload control (WLC) that integrates customer enquiry management, including a due-date sett...
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作者：Lin, Yen-Ting; Parlaktuerk, Ali K.; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of San Diego; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We consider two competing supply chains, each consisting of supplier, a manufacturer, and a retailer. The suppliers exert effort to improve product quality, and the retailers sell products competitively. Each manufacturer chooses one of the three strategies: forward integration, backward integration, or no vertical integration. We seek for a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium and study the resulting market structure. Moreover, we characterize the effect of vertical integration on profitability, ...
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作者：Arya, Anil; Gong, Ning; Ramanan, Ram N. V.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Melbourne; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Quality testing by suppliers has significant ramifications for downstream supply chain participants and retail consumers. This article focuses on such implications accounting for the fact that suppliers often enjoy discretion in quality testing and reporting. Under a discretionary testing and reporting environment, we show that a supplier can improve the market's perception of product quality by engaging in self-imposed production cuts. Production cuts dampen supplier incentives to engage in e...
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作者：Biyalogorsky, Eyal; Koenigsberg, Oded
作者单位：Reichman University; University of London; London Business School
摘要：This article presents a model of the design and introduction of a product line when the firm is uncertain about consumer valuations for the products. We find that product line introduction strategy depends on this uncertainty. Specifically, under low levels of uncertainty the firm introduces both models during the first period; under higher levels of uncertainty, the firm prefers sequential introduction and delays design of the second product until the second period. Under intermediate levels ...
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作者：Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; Indian School of Business (ISB); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Many social enterprises and some companies have developed supply chains with the poor as suppliers or distributors to alleviate poverty and to create revenues for themselves. Such supply chains have created new research opportunities because they raise issues fundamentally different from those examined in the existing operations management literature. We report this phenomenon of supply chains with the poor as suppliers or distributors in developing countries and identify operations management...
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作者：Pagell, Mark; Johnston, David; Veltri, Anthony; Klassen, Robert; Biehl, Markus
作者单位：University College Dublin; York University - Canada; Oregon State University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This research examines how organizations simultaneously manage their operations and occupational health and safety. Although both safety and operations scholars conduct research in the same operational settings, they have reached different, yet untested, conclusions about the relationship between creating a safe workplace and creating a productive workplace. The results from a series of 10 case studies show that it is possible to create safe and productive workplaces, but that many facilities ...
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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：Humanitarian aid agencies deliver emergency supplies and services to people affected by disasters. Scholars and practitioners have developed modeling approaches to support aid delivery planning, but they have used objective functions with little validation as to the trade-offs among the multiple goals of aid delivery. We develop a method to value the performance of aid delivery plans based on expert preferences over five key attributes: the amount of cargo delivered, the prioritization of aid ...
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作者：Wang, Zizhuo; Hu, Ming
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Toronto
摘要：Should capacitated firms set prices responsively to uncertain market conditions in a competitive environment? We study a duopoly selling differentiated substitutable products with fixed capacities under demand uncertainty, where firms can either commit to a fixed price ex ante, or elect to price contingently ex post, e.g., to charge high prices in booming markets, and low prices in slack markets. Interestingly, we analytically show that even for completely symmetric model primitives, asymmetri...
