M&SOM - Manufacturing AND Service Operations Management

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• Optimizing Local Content Requirements Under Technology Gaps AI翻译
  作者：Cui, Shiliang; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan
  作者单位：Georgetown University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  摘要：Problem definition: We study how the government of a developing country optimizes its local content requirement (LCR) policy to maximize social welfare in a setting where foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) produce and sell multicomponent products in the developing country. The foreign OEMs' local sourcing of components is more costly than global sourcing because of technology gaps between local and global suppliers. Academic/practical relevance: We characterize and compare the opt...
• Improving Microretailer and Consumer Welfare in Developing Economies: Replenishment Strategies and Market Entries AI翻译
  作者：Gui, Luyi; Tang, Christopher S.; Yin, Shuya
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
  摘要：Problem definition: Microretailers in remote rural areas in developing countries face high replenishment costs because of poor road infrastructure and the lack of formal distribution channels. This paper investigates the effectiveness of two innovative replenishment strategies (purchasing cooperatives and nonprofit wholesalers) deployed by nongovernmental organizations to reduce microretailers' replenishment costs and improve consumerwelfare. Academic/practical relevance: The problem is releva...
• Empirical Research in Operations Management: From Field Studies to Analyzing Digital Exhaust AI翻译
  作者：Terwiesch, Christian
  作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：The amount of empirical research in operations management that has been published in this journal and in Management Science has recently witnessed a significant increase. Beyond this increase in numbers, research questions and empirical methodologies have also changed substantially. Whereas empirical research in the 1990s was primarily carried out at the firm, plant, or project level, recent research focuses much more on microlevel phenomena. This shift in the unit of analysis has been made po...
• Patient Prioritization in Emergency Department Triage Systems: An Empirical Study of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) AI翻译
  作者：Ding, Yichuan; Park, Eric; Nagarajan, Mahesh; Grafstein, Eric
  作者单位：University of British Columbia; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Hong Kong; Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
  摘要：Emergency departments (EDs) typically use a triage system to classify patients into priority levels. However, most triage systems do not specify how exactly to route patients across and within the assigned triage levels. Therefore, decision makers in EDs often have to use their own discretion to route patients. Also, how patient waiting is perceived and accounted for in ED operations is not clearly understood. In this paper, using patient-level ED visit data, we structurally estimate the waiti...
• Selling a Product Line Through a Retailer When Demand Is Stochastic: Analysis of Price-Only Contracts AI翻译
  作者：Dong, Lingxiu; Guo, Xiaomeng; Turcic, Danko
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：Problem description: In practice, many consumer products are produced and stocked in product lines rather than in single product variants. The issue is that manufacturers and retailers often do not agree on the product line length (i.e., the number of variants included in the product line). The focus of this study is to understand how product line length and stocking quantities depend on how demand risk is contractually allocated. Academic/practical relevance: Our model combines assortment and...
• Measuring and Exploiting the Impact of Exhibition Scheduling on Museum Attendance AI翻译
  作者：Martinez-de-Albeniz, Victor; Valdivia, Ana
  作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Granada
  摘要：Problem definition: Attendance at a museum fluctuates over time and is largely dependent on the exhibitions on display. Schedules can be adjusted to maximize the museum's objectives. Academic/practical relevance: In this paper, we build a model to study and manage the impact of exhibitions on the number of museum visitors. Methodology: We first estimate the model using data collected from two large museums in Barcelona. We then build an optimization framework in which the museum operator can c...
• Effects of Rescheduling on Patient No-Show Behavior in Outpatient Clinics AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Jiayi; Xie, Jingui; Yang, Kum Khiong; Zheng, Zhichao
  作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Singapore Management University
  摘要：We study the effects of rescheduling on no-show behavior in an outpatient appointment system for both new and follow-up patients. Previous literature has primarily focused on new patients and investigated the role of waiting time on no-show probability. We offer a more nuanced understanding of this costly phenomenon. Using comprehensive clinical data, we demonstrate that for follow-up patients, their no-show probability decreases by 10.9 percentage points if their appointments were rescheduled...
• Dynamic Procurement of New Products with Covariate Information: The Residual Tree Method AI翻译
  作者：Ban, Gah-Yi; Gallien, Jeremie; Mersereau, Adam J.
  作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  摘要：Problem definition: We study the practice-motivated problem of dynamically procuring a new, short-life-cycle product under demand uncertainty. The firm does not know the demand for the new product but has data on similar products sold in the past, including demand histories and covariate information such as product characteristics. Academic/practical relevance: The dynamic procurement problem has long attracted academic and practitioner interest, and we solve it in an innovative data-driven wa...
• Integrated Risk Management for Newsvendors with Value-at-Risk Constraints AI翻译
  作者：Kouvelis, Panos; Li, Rong
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Syracuse University
  摘要：We study a newsvendor problem with profit risk control using value-at-risk (VaR) constraints. When a firm's demand correlates with the price of a tradable financial asset, both financial tools (derivatives) and operational tools (inventory) can be used for profit risk management. Such integrated risk management (IRM) approaches have been studied using various optimization frameworks to reflect the risk aversion of decision-makers. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study IRM in ...
• Dynamic Pricing of Wireless Internet Based on Usage and Stochastically Changing Capacity AI翻译
  作者：Batur, Demet; Ryan, Jennifer K.; Zhao, Zhongyuan; Vuran, Mehmet C.
  作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
  摘要：Problem definition: Inspired by new developments in dynamic spectrum access, we study the dynamic pricing of wireless Internet access when demand and capacity (bandwidth) are stochastic. Academic/practical relevance: The demand for wireless Internet access has increased enormously. However, the spectrum available to wireless service providers is limited. The industry has, thus, altered conventional license-based spectrum access policies through unlicensed spectrum operations. The additional sp...