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作者：Andradottir, Sigrun; Ayhan, Hayriye; Down, Douglas G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; McMaster University
摘要：A fundamental aspect of designing systems with dedicated servers is identifying and improving the system bottlenecks. We extend the concept of a bottleneck to networks with heterogeneous, flexible servers. In contrast with a network with dedicated servers, the bottlenecks are not a priori obvious, but can be determined by solving a number of linear programming problems. Unlike the dedicated server case, we find that a bottleneck may span several nodes in the network. We then identify some char...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：We study the impact of product recovery on a firm's product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer's valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does not reuse quality inducing components or material but it is overall profitable (e.g., cell phone recy...
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作者：Davies, Jane; Joglekar, Nitin
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Boston University
摘要：Supply chain integration is increasingly seen as a method to obtain flexibility and, consequently, to provide competitive advantage for firms within a supply chain. Product modularity, either in concert with or independent of such integration, can also produce flexibility for firms within a supply chain. In this proof-of-concept research, we explore whether the supply chain network affects each constituent firm's market valuation and how decisions regarding the level of supply chain integratio...
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作者：Feng, Qi; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We analyze contracting behaviors in a two-tier supply chain system consisting of competing manufacturers and competing retailers. We contrast the contracting outcome of a Stackelberg game, in which the manufacturers offer take-it-or-leave-it contracts to the retailers, with that of a bargaining game, in which the firms bilaterally negotiate contract terms via a process of alternating offers. The manufacturers in the Stackelberg game possess a Stackelberg-leader advantage in that the retailers ...
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作者：Gong, Yeming (Yale); de Koster, Rene B. M.; Frenk, J. B. G. (Hans); Gabor, Adriana F.
作者单位：emlyon business school; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Sabanci University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Self-storage is a booming industry. Both private customers and companies can rent temporary space from such facilities. The design of self-storage warehouses differs from other facility designs in its focus on revenue maximization. A major question is how to design self-storage facilities to fit market segments and accommodate volatile demand to maximize revenue. Customers that cannot be accommodated with a space size of their choice can be either rejected or upscaled to a larger space. Based ...
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作者：Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan; Narayanan, Sriram; Luo, Yadong; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of Miami; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Sun Yat Sen University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：As emerging markets increasingly rely on service businesses through offshore outsourcing, we examine the role of governance control mechanisms in improving performance among business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in India. Using data collected from 205 emerging market-based BPO service providers in India, we examine the antecedents and consequences of establishing governance control mechanisms in BPO service providers. Specifically, we examine how structural (use of contracts wit...
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作者：Billington, Corey; Davidson, Rhoda
摘要：Open innovation, fuelled by the rise of the Internet, has made it feasible and cheaper for firms to open themselves up to a wide range of external sources of innovative ideas. The explosive growth of open innovation intermediary networks, such as InnoCentive or Linked-in, enables the rapid pairing of firms seeking knowledge to address a wide range of business challenges (seekers) with other firms or individuals who already have relevant knowledge (solvers or knowledge brokers). These intermedi...
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作者：Gaimon, Cheryl; Bailey, Jennifer
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We synthesize research from operations management, entrepreneurship, organizational science, and strategy to investigate the performance-enhancing benefits of knowledge management activities throughout the entrepreneurial process of a high-tech venture from idea conception to commercialization. We adopt a dynamic learning perspective of entrepreneurship to understand how knowledge management activities change throughout four phases of the venture's life cycle. We introduce a framework that ide...
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作者：Shi, Ruixia; Zhang, Jun; Ru, Jun
作者单位：University of Richmond; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：In this study, we use a game-theory-based framework to model power in a supply chain with random and price-dependent demand and examine how power structure and demand models (expected demand and demand shock) affect supply chain members' performance. We demonstrate that whether a firm benefits from its power depends on the expected demand model but not on demand shock model. A firm benefits from its power only for linear but not for constant elasticity expected demand. The impact of power stru...
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作者：Ba, Sulin; Lisic, Ling Lei; Liu, Qindong; Stallaert, Jan
作者单位：University of Connecticut; George Mason University; Dow Chemical Company
摘要：We study the stock market reaction to announcements of global green vehicle innovation over a 14-year time span (1996-2009) using the event study methodology. We document that the stock market generally reacts positively to automakers' announcements of environmental innovations, consistent with prior research on the wealth effects of innovation announcements. Our results indicate that crucial green product development decisions such as innovation type and market segment choices exert direct in...
