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作者：Zhang, Zhe George; Yin, Xiaoling
作者单位：Lanzhou University; Simon Fraser University; Western Washington University; Zhejiang Gongshang University
摘要：This study considers a public service system consisting of two service providers with different service capacities and qualities, such as healthcare or transportation systems. Such a system is called a two-tier service system (TTS). The service provider with higher service capacity and quality charges a higher price and is called a charge service provider, denoted by CSP, while the other service provider charges a lower price and is called a free service provider, denoted by FSP. We study the ...
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作者：Schiffels, Sebastian; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; University of Hamburg
摘要：We study a supply chain setup in which a buyer has private end customer demand information that she can share with the supplier. The demand information is relevant to the supplier's capacity decision. We address the question of whether the supplier benefits from installing nonlinear capacity reservation contracts rather than wholesale price contracts. We contribute to the literature by providing the first internally valid comparison of both contracts with human decision makers. We setup an exp...
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作者：Zheng, Quan; Pan, Xiajun Amy; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Conventional wisdom suggests that by including a decoy product in the choice set for consumers, a firm can drive consumers to select more profitable non-decoy products. Explanations offered to explain such outcomes are rooted in the psychology of consumer behavior. A scan of retail practice, however, indicates that decoys might also be included in a product assortment for economic reasons. For example, products with very low sales potential are often included in offerings by bricks-and-mortar ...
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作者：Fayezi, Sajad; Benstead, Amy; Gold, Stefan; Klassen, Robert; Van Wassenhove, Luk
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland; University of Manchester; Universitat Kassel; Western University (University of Western Ontario); INSEAD Business School
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作者：Rea, David; Froehle, Craig; Masterson, Suzanne; Stettler, Brian; Fermann, Gregory; Pancioli, Arthur
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
摘要：Fairness is a natural concern when model-based decisions affect human beings. In personnel-management decisions, employees' perceptions of fairness depend both upon the decision processes as well as the resulting outcomes. Acting as a key part of decision processes, operational models often emphasize equality, or sameness, of outcomes among individuals. Fair outcomes, as a manifestation of distributive justice, involve balancing two competing aspects: equality and equity. Equity, in opposition...
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作者：Goldberg, David A.; Reiman, Martin, I; Wang, Qiong
作者单位：Cornell University; Columbia University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：It has long been recognized that many inventory models most relevant to practice are inherently high-dimensional, and hence generally believed to become computationally intractable as certain problem parameters grow large (suffering from the curse of dimensionality). In the last decade, asymptotic analysis has shown that in many interesting settings such problems can actually be well-approximated by much simpler optimization problems, leading to new algorithms and insights. In this survey, we ...
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作者：Hao, Zhongyuan; Jiang, Li
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Amid the rapid development of technology, an increasing number of suppliers sell directly as well as through the retail channel, competing with retailers in the market with uncertain demand. Each firm has exclusive access to a signal useful in updating market forecast. The quality of the signal received exclusively by a supplier is low when it adheres to the retail channel but improves after it engages in direct selling. Firms communicate signals along two directions. Competing suppliers or re...
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作者：Corbett, Charles
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作者：Rahmani, Morvarid; Gui, Luyi; Atasu, Atalay
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of California System; University of California Irvine; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We study recycling technology choice, a critical factor that has received little attention in the context of extended producer responsibility, and its interaction with product design-for-recycling in driving the environmental benefits of recycling systems. Collective recycling systems have long been criticized for restricting the environmental benefits of extended producer responsibility because of free riding issues among producers, which can undermine incentives for product design-for-recycl...
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作者：Chakravarty, Amiya K.
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：Agencies that provide relief to disaster survivors raise funds from diversified sources, such as foundations, private donors, and lenders. The output of a relief operation, such as lives saved, is a function of several factors: disaster intensity, relief agency's effectiveness, and the size of donor fund. In an uncertain funding environment with delays, a stop-gap loan can help decrease deprivation at the onset of disaster. When funding materializes, surplus fund net of loan and interest facil...
