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作者：Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Should OM research become more relevant? I provide my own perspective on this question and some practical ideas for our community to explore. This article is based on my Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Distinguished Fellow inaugural lecture given at the University of Toronto on June 29, 2015.
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作者：Plambeck, Erica L.; Taylor, Terry A.
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Prominent buyers' brands have been damaged because their suppliers caused major harm to workers or the environment, e.g., through a deadly factory fire or release of toxic chemicals. How can buyers motivate suppliers to exert greater care to prevent such harm? This paper characterizes a backfiring condition under which actions taken by prominent buyers (increasing auditing, publicizing negative audit reports, providing loans to suppliers) motivate a supplier to exert greater effort to pass the...
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作者：Kesavan, Saravanan; Kushwaha, Tarun; Gaur, Vishal
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Cornell University
摘要：This paper examines the differences in the behaviors of high (HIT) and low inventory turnover (LIT) retailers in responding to demand shocks. We identify quantity and price responsiveness as two mediating mechanisms that distinguish how high and low inventory turnover retailers manage demand shocks. Using quarterly firm -level data of 183 U.S. retailers between 1985 and 2012, we find that HIT retailers are able to respond quickly by changing their purchase quantities in response to demand shoc...
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作者：Ha, Albert; Long, Xiaoyang; Nasiry, Javad
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We study a supply chain with manufacturer encroachment in which product quality is endogenous and customers have heterogeneous preferences for quality. It is known that, when quality is exogenous, encroachment could make the retailer better off. Yet, when quality is endogenous and the manufacturer has enough flexibility in adjusting quality, we find that encroachment always makes the retailer worse off in a large variety of scenarios. We also establish that, while a higher manufacturer's cost ...
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作者：Acimovic, Jason; Graves, Stephen C.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Relative to brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers have the potential to offer more options to their customers, with respect to both inventory as well as delivery times. To do this entails the management of a distribution network with more decision options than a traditional retailer. The online retailer, not the customer, decides from where items will ship, by what shipping method, and how or whether multiple-item orders will be broken up into multiple shipments. What is the best way to...
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作者：Lim, Michael K.; Mak, Ho-Yin; Rong, Ying
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Key to the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is the establishment of successful business models based on sound understanding of consumer behavior in adopting this new technology. In this paper, we study the impact of two major barriers to mass adoption of EVs: (i) range anxiety, the concern that the driving range of EVs may be insufficient to meet the driving needs, and (ii) resale anxiety, the concern that used values of EVs may deteriorate quickly. Using a stylized model calibrated to...
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作者：Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
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作者：Birge, John R.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This paper, based on my remarks at the 2013 MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award ceremony, describes my views on the interface between operations and finance and the lessons that each field can gain from considering their interactions. The key points are that, whereas operational models often avoid financial considerations such as the role of investors and other market participants, both firm and market financial activity can have a significant effect on the impact of operational decisions. Some of...
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作者：Gurvich, Itai; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Motivated by the trend toward more collaboration in work flows, we study networks where some activities require the simultaneous processing by multiple types of multitasking human resources. Collaboration imposes constraints on the capacity of the process because multitasking resources have to be simultaneously at the right place. We introduce the notions of collaboration architecture and unavoidable bottleneck idleness to study the maximal throughput or capacity of such networks. Collaboratio...
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作者：Bernstein, Fernando; DeCroix, Gregory A.
作者单位：Duke University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：In this paper we examine the impact of different types of advance demand information on firm profit and on the benefits of resource flexibility. Specifically, we consider a firm that must choose capacities of resources that will be used to satisfy stochastic demand for multiple products, where demands follow a multivariate normal distribution. Prior to the capacity decision, the firm receives information revealing either the total volume of demand across products or the mix of demand between p...
