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作者：Chen, CL
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University
摘要：Green product development, which addresses environmental issues through product design and innovation as opposed to the traditional end-of-pipe-control approach, is receiving significant attention from customers, industries, and governments around the world. in this paper we develop a quality-based model for analyzing the strategic and policy issues concerning the development of products with conflicting traditional and environmental attributes. On the demand side of the problem, we use the fr...
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作者：Shane, S
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Research on the creation of new high-technology companies has typically focused either on industry-level factors such as market structure and technology regime or on individual-level factors such as the work experience of entrepreneurs. This study complements these approaches by examining the effect of technological opportunities on firm formation. Ln particular, the study shows that the probability that an invention will be commercialized through firm formation is influenced by its importance...
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作者：Adner, R; Levinthal, D
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The evolution of technology has been a central issue in the strategy and organizations Literature. However, the focus of much of this work has been on what is essentially the supply side of technical change-the evolution of firm capabilities. We present a demand-based view of technology evolution that is focused on the interaction between technology development and the demand environment in which the technology is ultimately evaluated. We develop a formal computer simulation model that explici...
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作者：Tatikonda, MV; Montoya-Weiss, MM
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University
摘要：This paper adopts a multidisciplinary view of innovation by integrating operations and marketing perspectives of product development. The conceptual framework builds on the resource-based view of the firm and organizational information-processing theory to characterize relationships among organizational process factors, product development capabilities, critical uncertainties, and operational/market performance in product development projects. Data from a cross-sectional sample of 120 complete...
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作者：Desai, P; Kekre, S; Radhakrishnan, S; Srinivasan, K
作者单位：Duke University; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Product design decisions substantially affect the cost and revenue drivers. A design configuration with commonality can lower manufacturing cost. However, such a design may hinder the ability to extract price premiums through product differentiation. We explicitly investigate the marketing-manufacturing trade-off and derive analytical implications for three possible design configurations: unique, premium-common, and basic-common. Our model considers two distinct segments of consumers. Some of ...
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作者：Davydov, D; Linetsky, V
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Much of the work on path-dependent options assumes that the underlying asset price follows geometric Brownian motion with constant volatility This paper uses a more general assumption for the asset price process that provides a better fit to the empirical observations. We use the so-called constant elasticity of variance (CEV) diffusion model where the volatility is a function of the underlying asset price. We derive analytical formulae for the prices of important types of path-dependent optio...
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作者：Raghunathan, S
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In a recent paper, Lee, So, and Tang (2000) showed that in a two-level supply chain with non-stationary AR(1) end demand, the manufacturer benefits significantly when the retailer shares point-of-sale (POS) demand data. We show in this paper, analytically and through simulation, that the manufacturer's benefit is insignificant when the parameters of the AR(1) process are known to both parties, as in Lee, So, and Tang (LST). The key-reason for the difference:between our results and those of LST...
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作者：Azoulay, P; Shane, S
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Although economic theory has emphasized that moral hazard and hold-up problems influence the design of contracts, very little is known about the process by which explicit contracts are established and the effect of contractual arrangements on firm performance. This paper attempts to demonstrate that firms are selected for survival on the basis of contracting efficiency. Based on a statistical analysis of 170 new franchise contracts and interviews with the founders of 16 of these new franchise ...
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作者：Randall, T; Ulrich, K
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Using data from the U.S. bicycle industry, we examine the relation among product variety, supply chain structure, and firm performance. Variety imposes two types of costs on a supply chain: production costs and market mediation costs. Production costs include, among other costs, the incremental fixed investments associated with providing additional product variants. Market mediation costs arise because of uncertainty in product demand created by variety. In the presence of demand uncertainty, ...
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作者：Milner, JM; Pinker, EJ
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of Rochester
摘要：Firms increasingly use contingent labor to flexibly respond to demand in many environments. Labor supply agencies are growing to fill this need. As a result, firms and agencies are engaging in long-term contracts for labor supply. We develop mathematical models of the interaction between firms and labor supply agencies when demand and supply are uncertain. We consider two models of labor supply uncertainty, termed productivity and availability uncertainty, and study how each affects the nature...
