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作者：Huo, Baofeng; Zhao, Xiande; Zhou, Honggeng
作者单位：Zhejiang University; China Europe International Business School; South China University of Technology; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire
摘要：Information sharing in supply chains has become an important topic over the past decade. This study uses data from 617 Chinese manufacturing firms to investigate the relationships among competitive environments, supply chain information sharing (SCIS), and supply chain performance. The results of structural equation modeling analysis show that (i) international competition is positively related to all three types of SCIS whereas local competition is not significantly related to any of the thre...
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作者：Ge, Zehui; Hu, Qiying; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：University of Shanghai for Science & Technology; University of Science & Technology Beijing; Fudan University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This study investigates firms' R&D cooperation behavior in a supply chain where two firms first cooperate in R&D investments and then decide the production quantity according to a wholesale price contract. By using a concept named contribution level that measures a firm's technological contribution to the R&D cooperation in the supply chain, we show that both firms can achieve win-win via cartelization only if their contribution levels are Pareto matched, i.e., when each firm's contribution le...
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作者：Shan, Jun; Yang, Shitao; Yang, Shilei; Zhang, Jin
作者单位：Nankai University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：In this study, we investigate the bullwhip effect in China using data on over 1200 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2002 to 2009. Specifically, we estimate the ratio of the volatility of production to the volatility of demand as a proxy for the bullwhip effect. Our results show that more than two-thirds of the companies we studied exhibit the bullwhip effect. We also find that several hypotheses proposed in the existing literature are supported by firm-level d...
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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：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：Froehle, Craig M.; White, Denise L.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
摘要：An increasing barrier to productivity in knowledge-intensive work environments is interruptions. Interruptions stop the current job and can induce forgetting in the worker. The induced forgetting can cause re-work; to complete the interrupted job, additional effort and time is required to return to the same level of job-specific knowledge the worker had attained prior to the interruption. This research employs primary observational and process data gathered from a hospital radiology department...
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作者：Gu, Bin; Ye, Qiang
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Harbin Institute of Technology
摘要：With the growing influence of online social media, firms increasingly take an active role in interacting with consumers in social media. For many firms, their first step in online social media is management responses, where the management responds to customers' comments about the firm or its products and services. In this article, we measure the impact of management responses on customer satisfaction using data retrieved from a major online travel agency in China. Applying a panel data model t...
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作者：Cai, Gangshu (George); Chen, Xiangfeng; Xiao, Zhiguo
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Fudan University; Fudan University
摘要：This study investigates the roles of bank and trade credits in a supply chain with a capital-constrained retailer facing demand uncertainty. We evaluate the retailer's optimal order quantity and the creditors' optimal credit limits and interest rates in two scenarios. In the single-credit scenario, we find the retailer prefers trade credit, if the trade credit market is more competitive than the bank credit market; otherwise, the retailer's preference of a specific credit type depends on the r...
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作者：Lin, Liguo; Moon, Jon J.; Yin, Haitao
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Korea University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：In contrast to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, the Trade-Up Hypothesis holds that international integration helps improve firms' environmental performance in developing countries. Using firm-level data from Shanghai, this article examines how international linkages, in the form of foreign direct investment or international trade, affect firms' environmental compliance and performance. We find that firms with international linkage via ownership exhibit better compliance with environmental regul...
