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作者：Chen, Jiayu; Qi, Anyan; Dawande, Milind
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Problem definition: A key question in socially responsible supply networks is as follows: When firms audit some, but not all, of their respective suppliers, how do the degree centralities of the suppliers (i.e., the number of firms to which they supply) affect their auditing priority from the viewpoint of the firms? To investigate, we consider an assembly network consisting of two firms and three suppliers; each firm has one independent supplier that uniquely supplies to that firm and one comm...
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作者：Fang, Xin; Cho, Soo-Haeng
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Problem definition: This paper studies two cooperative approaches of firms in managing social responsibility violations of their supplier: auditing a common supplier jointly (joint auditing) and sharing independent audit results with other firms (audit sharing). We study this problem in a market with externalities and a large number of firms. Academic/practical relevance: With numerous firms procuring their materials and parts worldwide, there are many cases in which overseas suppliers violate...
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作者：Chen, Li; Yao, Shiqing; Zhu, Kaijie
作者单位：Cornell University; Monash University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Problem definition: Although they enjoy low costs in sourcing from emerging economies, global brands also face serious brand and reputation risks from their suppliers' noncompliance with environmental and labor standards. Such a supplier problem can be viewed as a process quality problem concerning how products are sourced and produced. Academic/practical relevance: Addressing this problem is a key component of many global companies' responsible sourcing programs. A common approach is to use a...
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作者：Kalkanci, Basak; Plambeck, Erica L.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Stanford University
摘要：Problem definition: Under what conditions and how can a buying firm, by committing to publish a list of its suppliers and/or the identities and violations of terminated suppliers, increase its expected profit and supplier responsibility? Academic/practical relevance: This paper contributes to a recent thrust in the operations-management literature on how various sorts of transparency influence social and environmental responsibility in a supply chain. In practice, companies are under pressure ...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Valdes, Leon; Zheng, Yanchong
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Problem definition: We examine how a profit-driven firm (she) can motivate better social responsibility (SR) practices by a supplier (he) when these practices cannot be perfectly observed by the firm. We focus on the firm's investment in the supplier's SR capabilities. To capture the influence of consumer demands, we incorporate the potential for SR information to be disclosed by the firm or revealed by a third party. Academic/practical relevance: Most firms have limited visibility into the SR...
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作者：Berenguer, Gemma; Shen, Zuo-Jun (max)
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The operations management (OM) community is paying increasing attention to the analysis of nonprofit operations. However, what is it about this type of operation that makes it particularly interesting to OM scholars? We address this question by studying the objectives, actors, and main activities of nonprofit operations and the most common challenges they face. In addition, we suggest tactical and operational strategies to address these challenges by considering works in the for-profit sector ...
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作者：Oraiopoulos, Nektarios; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：Problem definition: Is a committee composed of more or less cognitively diverse members better at approving the good projects and rejecting the bad ones? Academic/practical relevance: We contribute to the operations management literature by accounting for the fact that critical selection decisions are often made by a committee rather than a single decision maker. Understanding how the magnitude of diversity affects the decision quality of such a committee is an important consideration for prac...
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作者：Kok, A. Gurhan; Shang, Kevin; Yucel, Safak
作者单位：Koc University; Duke University; Georgetown University
摘要：Problem definition: There is an ongoing debate on how providing a subsidy for one energy source affects the investment level of other sources. Academic/practical relevance: To investigate this issue, we study a capacity investment problem for a utility firm that invests in renewable and conventional energy, with a consideration of two critical factors. First, conventional sources have different levels of operational flexibility-inflexible (e.g., nuclear and coal) and flexible (e.g., natural ga...
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作者：Du, Lilun; Li, Qing
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Problem definition: Service providers often recruit a large number people over a short period of time, a practice known as high-volume recruitment. In this study, we describe a data-driven approach that can be used to streamline the recruitment process and aid decision making. The recruitment process consists of two stages: screening and interview. All candidates are evaluated in the screening stage, but only those with sufficiently high screening scores are short-listed for an interview. Afte...
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作者：Bandi, Chaithanya; Gupta, Diwakar
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Problem definition: We consider two problems faced by an operating room (OR) manager: (1) how many baseline (core) staff to hire for OR suites, and (2) how to schedule surgery requests that arrive one by one. The OR manager has access to historical case count and case length data, and needs to balance the fixed cost of baseline staff and variable cost of overtime, while satisfying surgeons' preferences. Academic/practical relevance: ORs are costly to operate and generate about 70% of hospitals...
