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作者：Haunschild, PR; Rhee, M
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Hawaii System
摘要：What is the role of volition in organizational learning? Do firms learn better in response to internal procedures or external mandates? Existing literature provides conflicting answers to this question, with some theories suggesting that volition is important for learning because autonomy increases commitment and problem analyses, whereas external mandates tend to produce defensive reactions that are not coupled to the organization in any useful way. Yet, other theories suggest that mandate is...
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作者：Alagoz, O; Maillart, LM; Schaefer, AJ; Roberts, MS
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Living donors are a significant and increasing source of livers for transplantation, mainly because of the insufficient supply of cadaveric organs. We consider the problem of optimally timing a living-donor liver transplant to maximize the patient's total reward, such as quality-adjusted life expectancy. We formulate a Markov decision process (MDP) model in which the state of the process is described by patient health. We derive structural properties of the MDP model, including a set of intuit...
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作者：Katok, E; Roth, AE
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Harvard University; Harvard University
摘要：Most business-to-business (B2B) auctions are used to transact large quantities of homogeneous goods, and therefore use multiunit mechanisms. In the B2B context, bidders often have increasing returns to scale, or synergies. We compare two commonly used auction formats for selling multiple homogeneous objects, both sometimes called Dutch auctions, in a set of value environments that include synergies and potentially subject bidders to the exposure and free-riding problems. We find that the desce...
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作者：Ziedonis, RH
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：How do firms avoid being fenced in by owners of patented technologies used, perhaps unknowingly, in the design or manufacture of their products? This paper examines the conditions under which firms expand their own portfolios of patents in response to potential hold-up problems in markets for technology Combining insights from transactions cost theory with recent scholarship on intellectual property and its exchange, I predict firms will patent more aggressively than otherwise expected when ma...
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作者：Ahuja, RK; Orlin, JB; Pallottino, S; Scaparra, MP; Scutellà, MG
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Pisa
摘要：We present a very large-scale neighborhood (VLSN) search algorithm for the capacitated facility location problem with single-source constraints. The neighborhood structures are induced by customer multiexchanges and by facility moves. We consider both traditional single-customer multi-exchanges, detected on a suitably defined customer improvement graph, and more innovative multicustomer multi-exchanges, detected on a facility improvement graph dynamically built through the use of a greedy sche...
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作者：Kamrad, B; Siddique, A
作者单位：Georgetown University; United States Department of the Treasury; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
摘要：A common theme in the studies of flexible supply contracts has been the producer's profit-maximization problem without regard to the suppliers' reactions. However, suppliers do react and protect their downside against producer's operating policies by revising their strategies in a manner consistent with their profit-maximization objectives. This fact motivates our work. Using a real-options (contingent claims) approach, we analyze and value supply contracts in a setting characterized by exchan...
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作者：Waller, MJ; Gupta, N; Giambatista, RC
作者单位：Tulane University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：Control crews are highly trained teams responsible for monitoring complex systems, performing routine procedures, and quickly responding to nonroutine situations. Previous literature suggests that higher-performing control crews engage in adaptive behavior during high-workload or crisis situations. Other work suggests that higher-performing crews use periods of lower workloads to prepare for future problems. To understand which behaviors performed during which situations better differentiate l...
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作者：Johnson, EJ; Moe, WW; Fader, PS; Bellman, S; Lohse, GL
作者单位：Columbia University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Pennsylvania; University of Western Australia; Accenture
摘要：This paper examines search across competing e-commerce sites. By analyzing panel data from over 10 000 Internet households and three commodity-like products (books, compact discs (CDs), and air travel services), we show that the amount of online search is actually quite limited. On average, households visit only 1.2 book sites, 1.3 CD sites, and 1.8 travel sites during a typical active month in each category. Using probabilistic models, we characterize search behavior at the individual level i...
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作者：Montgomery, AL; Hosanagar, K; Krishnan, R; Clay, KB
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：A primary tool that consumers have for comparative shopping is the shopbot, which is short for shopping robot. These shopbots automatically search a large number of vendors for price and availability. Typically a shopbot searches a predefined set of vendors and reports all results, which can result in time-consuming searches that provide redundant or dominated alternatives. Our research demonstrates analytically how shopbot designs can be improved by developing a utility model of consumer purc...
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作者：Wang, YZ; Jiang, L; Shen, ZJ
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Under a consignment contract with revenue sharing, a supplier decides on the retail price and delivery quantity for his product, and retains ownership of the goods; for each item sold, the retailer deducts a percentage from the selling price and remits the balance to the supplier. In this paper we show that, under such a contract, both the overall channel performance and the performance of individual firms depend critically on demand price elasticity and on the retailer's share of channel cost...
