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作者：Guo, Liang; Li, Tian; Zhang, Hongtao
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; East China University of Science & Technology
摘要：We investigate strategic information sharing in two competing channels. The retailer in a channel can ex post decide whether to share private demand information with his upstream manufacturer after the content of information becomes known. We find that a retailer discloses low demand and withholds high demand to induce lower wholesale prices from his manufacturer. We show that a retailer should share less information when the retail market becomes more competitive, but should disclose more inf...
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作者：Tong, Chunyang; Rajagopalan, Sampath
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Southern California
摘要：In many services, for example, website or landscape design, the value or quality derived by a customer depends upon the service time, and this valuation differs across customers. Customers procure the service based on the expected value to be delivered, prices charged, and the timeliness of service. We investigate the performance of the optimal pricing scheme as well as two commonly used pricing schemes (fixed fee and time-based pricing) for such services on important dimensions such as revenu...
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作者：Kremer, Mirko; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; INSEAD Business School
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作者：Zhou, Sean X.; Chao, Xiuli
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We consider a periodic-review inventory system with regular and expedited supply modes. The expedited supply is faster than the regular supply but incurs a higher cost. Demand for the product in each period is random and sensitive to its selling price. The firm determines its order quantity from each supply in each period as well as its selling price to maximize the expected total discounted profit over a finite or an infinite planning horizon. We show that, in each period if it is optimal to ...
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作者：Cachon, Gerard P.
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作者：Ergun, Oezlem; Gui, Luyi; Heier Stamm, Jessica L.; Keskinocak, Pinar; Swann, Julie
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Kansas State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Humanitarian supply chains involve many different entities, such as government, military, private, and non-governmental organizations and individuals. Well-coordinated interactions between entities can lead to synergies and improved humanitarian outcomes. Information technology (IT) tools can help facilitate collaboration, but cost and other barriers have limited their use. We document the use of an IT tool to improve last-mile supply distribution and data management in one of many camps for i...
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作者：Bischak, Diane P.; Robb, David J.; Silver, Edward A.; Blackburn, Joseph D.
作者单位：University of Calgary; Tsinghua University; University of Auckland; Vanderbilt University
摘要：In this article, we investigate the (R, S) periodic review, order-up-to level inventory control system with stochastic demand and variable leadtimes. Variable leadtimes can lead to order crossover, in which some orders arrive out of sequence. Most theoretical studies of order-up-to inventory systems under variable leadtimes assume that crossovers do not occur and, in so doing, overestimate the standard deviation of the realized leadtime distribution and prescribe policies that can inflate inve...
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作者：Mehra, Amit; Seidmann, Abraham; Mojumder, Probal
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); University of Rochester; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：A software product becomes less valuable for its consumers over time due to technological and economic obsolescence. As a result, firms have an opportunity to introduce and sell upgrades that provide higher utility to consumers compared to an older and out-of-date software product. In a market that is growing and consists of homogeneous customers, we prove that the optimal upgrade intervals are monotonically increasing throughout the product's life cycle solely because of demand and cost consi...
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作者：Andritsos, Dimitrios A.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Motivated by an increasing adoption of evidence-based medical guidelines in the delivery of medical care, we examine whether increased adherence to such guidelines (typically referred to as higher process quality) is associated with reduced resource usage in the course of patient treatment. In this study, we develop a sample of US hospitals and use cardiac care as our context to empirically examine our questions. To measure a patient's resource usage, we use the total length of stay, which inc...
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作者：Shunko, Masha; Debo, Laurens; Gavirneni, Srinagesh
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Chicago; Cornell University
摘要：Taking advantage of low tax rates using transfer pricing and taking advantage of low production costs using offshoring are two strategies multinational firms (MNFs) use to increase profits. We identify an important trade-off that MNFs face in setting their transfer prices: the conflict between (i) the incentive role and (ii) the tax role of the transfer price. For MNFs, we find the profit-maximizing transfer-pricing strategies that motivate divisional management to (i) make good sourcing decis...
