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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Northwestern University
摘要：Click tracking is gaining in popularity, and the practice of web analytics is growing fast. Whether strategic customers are willing to visit a website when they know their clicks may be tracked is an important yet complex problem, which depends on various factors. Using a newsvendor framework, we examine this problem by focusing on the operational factor: how product availability induces strategic customers to voluntarily provide advance demand information. We find that a strong Nash equilibri...
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作者：Tatikonda, Mohan V.; Terjesen, Siri A.; Patel, Pankaj C.; Parida, Vinit
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Ball State University; Lulea University of Technology
摘要：We investigate relationships between operational capabilities and new venture survival. On the basis of operations management and entrepreneurship literature, we develop a contingency framework of operational capabilities especially appropriate at different life phases of a new venture's evolution. We expect that in the first years of a new venture's life, entrepreneurs should emphasize high inventory turnover to preserve working capital, support customer responsiveness, and aid firm adaptabil...
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作者：Ketzenberg, Michael E.; Geismar, Neil; Metters, Richard; van der Laan, Erwin
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：An important difference between both manufacturing and wholesaling vs. retail is the information available concerning inventory. Typically, far less information characterizes retail. Here, an extreme environment of information shortfall is examined. The environment is technically termed unattended points of sale, but colloquially called vending machines. Once inventory is loaded into a machine, information on demand and inventory level is not observed until the scheduled reloading date. Techno...
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作者：Lu, Ye; Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：In this note, we study the price-setting newsvendor problem. We use three conditions, the log-convexity of the coefficient of variation, the log-concavity of the deterministic profit function, and the log-convexity of the random noise's expectation conditional on having leftover inventory to establish the log-concavity of the retailer's expected profit function. This new result is complementary to existing results and removes some assumptions in the pricing and inventory coordination literatur...
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作者：Handley, Sean M.; Gray, John V.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Quality-related incidents involving contract manufacturers (CMs) are becoming increasingly prevalent. The quality management (QM) literature, however, has focused mostly on QM within a single firm. Thus, the need for data-driven research on managing quality with outsourced production is evident. We investigate the use and effectiveness of external failure penalties and audits of CMs' facilities to manage inter-firm quality. Building on agency theory and extant QM literature, this study address...
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作者：van Burg, Elco; van Oorschot, Kim E.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Technology entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth, although entrepreneurs must maintain cooperative ties with the owners of any technology they hope to bring to market. Existing studies show that fairness perceptions have a great influence on this cooperation, but no research investigates its precise mechanisms or dynamic patterns. This study explores the development of 17 ventures that cooperated with a university-owner of technology and thereby identifies different cooper...
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作者：Fransoo, Jan C.; Lee, Chung-Yee
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：With supply chains distributed across global markets, ocean container transport now is a critical element of any such supply chain. We identify key characteristics of ocean container transport from a supply chain perspective. We find that unlike continental (road) transport, service offerings tend to be consolidated in few service providers, and a strong focus exists on maximization of capital intensive resources. Based on the characteristics of ocean container transport as part of global supp...
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作者：Meissner, Joern; Strauss, Arne; Talluri, Kalyan
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University of Warwick; ICREA; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：The network choice revenue management problem models customers as choosing from an offer set, and the firm decides the best subset to offer at any given moment to maximize expected revenue. The resulting dynamic program for the firm is intractable and approximated by a deterministic linear program called the CDLP which has an exponential number of columns. However, under the choice-set paradigm when the segment consideration sets overlap, the CDLP is difficult to solve. Column generation has b...
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作者：Yang, Jian; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：New Jersey Institute of Technology; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：We study a revenue management problem involving competing firms. We assume the presence of a continuum of infinitesimal firms where no individual firm has any discernable influence over the evolution of the overall market condition. Under this nonatomic-game approach, the unanimous adoption of an equilibrium pricing policy by all firms will yield a market-condition process that in turn will elicit the said policy as one of the best individual responses. For both deterministic- and stochastic-d...
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作者：Bhargava, Hemant K.; Kim, Byung Cho; Sun, Daewon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Korea University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Many emerging entrepreneurial applications and services connect two or more groups of users over Internet-based information technologies. Commercial success of such technology products requires astute business practices related to product line design, price discrimination, and launch timing. We examine these issues for a platform firm that serves two marketslabeled as user and developer marketssuch that the size of each market positively impacts participation in the other. In addition, our mod...
