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作者：Ju, Jaehyeon; Cho, Daegon; Lee, Jae Kyu; Ahn, Jae-Hyeon
作者单位：McGill University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：Although spam email messages have been the primary source of cybercrime since the early Internet era, there is no quick fix to this problem. Governments have established anti-spam legislation, but surprisingly, there has been no measurement of policy impact. This study aims to fill the gap by utilizing a quasi-experimental setting in South Korea, where the anti-spam policy was substantially amended in November 2014. A significant change was in the default setting, switching from an opt-out to ...
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作者：Guo, Xiaolong; Zheng, Shengming; Yu, Yugang; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Bundling strategies have been widely adopted by online retail platforms that use agency selling, where suppliers pay a commission fee to the platform to gain access and sell directly to consumers. We study the optimal bundling strategy for a retail platform through which two independent suppliers distribute their products. The suppliers first set their product prices, and, subsequently, the platform decides whether to offer the two products as a bundle and, if so, the price of the bundled prod...
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作者：Leung, Woon Sau; Sun, Jiong
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Using data involving customer-supplier relationships and a large sample of US publicly listed firms, our study documents a negative and statistically significant relationship between economic policy uncertainty and firms' customer-base concentration. The negative relation is predominant in firms with higher inventory efficiency and those operating in competitive, high-R&D, and nondurable industries. Customer-base diversification is further shown to enhance firm performance during periods of in...
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作者：Bunn, Derek W.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This is an invited commentary on the perspective paper by Sheridan Titman concerning the drivers of risk transmission across supply chains that have fundamental commodity inputs.
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作者：Li, Guo; Tian, Lin; Zheng, Hong
作者单位：Beijing Institute of Technology; Beijing Institute of Technology; Fudan University
摘要：In recent years, the rapid development of online marketplaces has given rise not only to co-opetitive relationships between sellers but also to information asymmetries between online marketplaces and sellers. This study studies information sharing in an e-commerce setting consisting of an online marketplace, an upstream manufacturer and a reseller, where the online marketplace possesses superior demand information, while the manufacturer and reseller engage in a co-opetitive structure. The res...
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作者：Wang, Tong; Yan, Xiaoyue; Yang, Chaolin
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Cornell University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：In this study, we study a hybrid RDC-DC serial inventory system where the regional distribution center (RDC) replenishes its stock from an outside supplier (OS), while the distribution center (DC) faces random demand and replenishes its stock from the RDC. Unlike in the traditional serial system, the DC itself can replenish its inventory from outside as well. We firstly derive structural properties for the optimal long-run average cost and the optimal stationary policy by vanishing discount ap...
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作者：Wang, Liao
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
摘要：We study production planning in a multi-product setting, in which demand for each product depends on multiple financial assets (such as commodities, market indices, etc). In addition to the production quantity decision at the beginning of the planning horizon, there is also a real-time hedging decision throughout the horizon; and we optimize both decisions jointly. With a mean-variance problem formulation, we first derive the optimal hedging strategy, given the production quantities. This lead...
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作者：Dhanorkar, Suvrat; Siemsen, Enno
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Important discretionary tasks such as quality improvement, process compliance, and energy efficiency (EE) require constantly focusing the attention of decision-makers. Using a combination of archival data analysis and a field study, we show how nudges in the form of reminders can serve as a simple yet powerful managerial lever to focus attention on such tasks and increase the likelihood that these tasks will be completed. We study the effectiveness of reminders in the context of EE tasks in ma...
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作者：Wang, Kangzhou; Chen, Shouchang; Jiang, Zhibin; Zhou, Weihua; Geng, Na
作者单位：Lanzhou University; Zhejiang University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Manufacturing servitization has become a major trend in industry that is implemented by so called integrated production and service systems (IPSSs) to offer not only products but also their associated services. In this study, we explore the capacity allocation policy for an IPSS that consists of a manufacturing facility and a service center. The IPSS serves two classes of customers, each demanding a specific product produced at the manufacturing facility and, subsequently, the associated servi...
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作者：Chen, Jiguang; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Xiamen University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Motivated by company+farmer farming operations of Wens, New Hope Liuhe, and Huiren, this study formalizes the impact of production-management and resource-providing types of contract farming, in which the buying firm commits to an ex ante procurement price and promises to buy the high-value agricultural product (HVA) from contract farmers. We analyze the buyer's cost reduction effort and its impact on farmer participation to characterize the effect of contract farming on the agricultural produ...
