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作者：Bhattacharya, Shantanu; Hasija, Sameer; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We analyze the efficacy of different asset transfer mechanisms and provide policy recommendations for the design of humanitarian supply chains. As a part of their preparedness effort, humanitarian organizations often make decisions on resource investments ex ante because doing so allows for rapid response if an adverse event occurs. However, programs typically operate under funding constraints and donor earmarks with autonomous decision-making authority resting with the local entities, which m...
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作者：Chen, Wei; Dawande, Milind; Janakiraman, Ganesh
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We study several finite-horizon, discrete-time, dynamic, stochastic inventory control models with integer demands: the newsvendor model, its multi-period extension, and a single-product, multi-echelon assembly model. Equivalent linear programs are formulated for the corresponding stochastic dynamic programs, and integrality results are derived based on the total unimodularity of the constraint matrices. Specifically, for all these models, starting with integer inventory levels, we show that th...
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作者：Kunnumkal, Sumit
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：In this study, we present new approximation methods for the network revenue management problem with customer choice behavior. Our methods are sampling-based and so can handle fairly general customer choice models. The starting point for our methods is a dynamic program that allows randomization. An attractive feature of this dynamic program is that the size of its action space is linear in the number of itineraries, as opposed to exponential. It turns out that this dynamic program has a struct...
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作者：Zhang, Guoqiang Peter; Yu, Jifeng; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：Despite the widely held belief of the importance of innovation, the connection between innovation and firm performance is empirically inconclusive, partially owing to the limitations of existing innovation measures, which tend to ignore the effectiveness of innovation programs. In this study, we use the winning of innovation awards as a proxy for the effective execution of innovation. We conducted event-study analyses based on data from more than 1000 publicly traded firms that won innovation ...
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作者：Bala, Ram; Krishnan, V.; Zhu, Wenge
作者单位：Santa Clara University; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：Distributed product development is becoming increasingly prevalent in a number of industries. We study how the global distribution of product development impacts the profit-maximizing product line that a firm offers. Specifically, we formulate a model to understand the linkage between cost arbitrage as a driver of distributed development and consequent market implications such as customer perceived quality loss to remotely developed products. Analysis of the model reveals that a firm should ex...
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作者：Kouvelis, Panos; Tian, Zhongjun
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：In this article, we study a firm's interdependent decisions in investing in flexible capacity, capacity allocation to individual products, and eventual production quantities and pricing in meeting uncertain demand. We propose a three-stage sequential decision model to analyze the firm's decisions, with the firm being a value maximizer owned by risk-averse investors. At the beginning of the time horizon, the firm sets the flexible capacity level using an aggregate demand forecast on the envelop...
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作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; Deng, Mingcherng; Huang, Ke-Wei
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); National University of Singapore
摘要：We consider a two-stage principal-agent screening environment in a decentralized supply chain with retailers, distributors, and a supplier. The retailers possess private information regarding their local market profitabilities. The distributors can partially observe the retailers' profitabilities and are heterogeneous with regard to the precision of that information. The supplier determines the level of production, but knows neither the local market profitabilities nor the precision of the dis...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Besiou, Maria; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; INSEAD Business School
摘要：The work of international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) frequently involves operating in remote locations, decentralized decision-making, and the simultaneous implementation of development and disaster response programs. A large proportion of this work is funded by earmarked donations, since donors often exhibit a preference for the programs they are willing to fund. From extensive research involving qualitative descriptions and quantitative data, and applying system dynamics methodology, ...
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作者：Wu, Xiaole; Niederhoff, Julie A.
作者单位：Fudan University; Syracuse University
摘要：This paper studies the impact of fairness concerns on supply chain performance (SCP) in the two-party newsvendor setting. We extend prior fairness analysis to a wide range of demand distributions, and also allow the degree and definition of fairness to assume a broader range of preferences than those in prior literature. Contrary to prior literature, we find that if the retailer's ideal allocation to the supplier is not sufficiently large, regardless of demand variability, a fair-minded retail...
