Production and Operations Management

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• The Coordination-Information Bubble in Humanitarian Response: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Investigations AI翻译
  作者：Comes, Tina; Van de Walle, Bartel; Van Wassenhove, Luk
  作者单位：Delft University of Technology; INSEAD Business School
  摘要：Humanitarian disasters are highly dynamic and uncertain. The shifting situation, volatility of information, and the emergence of decision processes and coordination structures require humanitarian organizations to continuously adapt their operations. In this study, we aim to make headway in understanding adaptive decision-making in a dynamic interplay between changing situation, volatile information, and emerging coordination structures. Starting from theories of sensemaking, coordination, and...
• Illegal Content Monitoring on Social Platforms AI翻译
  作者：Jain, Tarun; Hazra, Jishnu; Cheng, T. C. Edwin
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：Illegal content uploads on social platforms have grown rapidly in recent years. While previous research has studied various enforcement efforts to remove illegal content, we consider such enforcement efforts in the setting where the content is sold through a platform firm. Furthermore, we consider the situation in which along with the subscription-based legal content on the platform, there is free illegal content that may generate revenues through advertisements for the platform. Specifically,...
• Enhancing the Financial Returns of R&D Investments through Operations Management AI翻译
  作者：Yiu, L. M. Daphne; Lam, Hugo K. S.; Yeung, Andy C. L.; Cheng, T. C. E.
  作者单位：Macau University of Science & Technology; University of Liverpool; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：Although much research has been carried out to examine various contextual issues and moderating factors for successful R&D investments, very little research has been conducted to explore the role of a firm's operational and process characteristics. In this study, we explore how firms could possibly enhance the financial returns of R&D investments through quality management, using Six Sigma implementation as an example, and efficiency improvement, using the stochastic frontier estimation of rel...
• Optimizing Store-Brand Quality: Impact of Choice of Producer and Channel Price Leadership AI翻译
  作者：Liao, Bo; Yano, Candace A.; Trivedi, Minakshi
  作者单位：Western Digital Corporation; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Texas Christian University
  摘要：There is a vast literature on optimizing store brand quality, but it does not address the individual and joint effects of sourcing and pricing power; this is the focus of our paper. We study a retailer's store-brand quality-positioning problem under three sourcing structures and two types of price leadership. The three sources are in-house (IH), a leading national-brand manufacturer (NBM) with a competing product, and a strategic third-party manufacturer (3M). We consider two forms of price le...
• Strategic Capacity Planning Problems in Revenue-Sharing Joint Ventures AI翻译
  作者：Levi, Retsef; Perakis, Georgia; Shi, Cong; Sun, Wei
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
  摘要：We study strategic capacity investment problems in joint ventures (JVs) with fixed-rate revenue-sharing contracts. We adopt a game-theoretical approach to study two types of JVs depending on how individual resources determine the effective capacity of a JV. With complementary resources, the effective capacity of a JV is constrained by the most scarce resource. We show that multiple Nash equilibria could exist. Nevertheless, there exists a unique Strong Nash equilibrium. We show that there is a...
• Price and Lead time Disclosure Strategies in Inventory Systems AI翻译
  作者：Kostami, Vasiliki
  作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
  摘要：We consider a firm that faces the following pricing and leadtime disclosure decision. Either, (i) offer the same price to all arriving customers and disclose no leadtime information, in which case customers know only an expected leadtime, or, (ii) vary the price dynamically based on the current inventory status, and disclose leadtime information dynamically. The second option allows the firm to offer a price discount for a long leadtime, and to offer a short leadtime when it has a large invent...
• Robust Vehicle Pre-Allocation with Uncertain Covariates AI翻译
  作者：Hao, Zhaowei; He, Long; Hu, Zhenyu; Jiang, Jun
  作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore
  摘要：Motivated by a leading taxi operator in Singapore, we consider the idle vehicle pre-allocation problem with uncertain demands and other uncertain covariate information such as weather. In this problem, the operator, upon observing its distribution of idle vehicles, proactively allocates the idle vehicles to serve future uncertain demands. With perfect information of demand distribution, the problem can be formulated as a stochastic transportation problem. Yet, the non-stationarity and spatial ...
• Mitigating the Double-Blind Effect in Opaque Selling: Inventory and Information AI翻译
  作者：Li, Qing; Tang, Christopher S.; Xu, He
  作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Huazhong University of Science & Technology
  摘要：Opaque selling is a marketing strategy under which firms sell end-of-the-season inventory of different products as a single opaque good and customers find out the specific products they actually get only after they have made the purchase. Opaque selling entails a double-blind process: customers do not know the inventory level of each product, and the seller does not know their product preferences. This double-blind process can result in customer dissatisfaction when customers do not receive th...
• Appointment Scheduling for a Health Care Facility with Series Patients AI翻译
  作者：Yu, Siyun; Kulkarni, Vidyadhar G.; Deshpande, Vinayak
  作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  摘要：This study focuses on determining the appointment scheduling for healthcare facilities with series patients. Series patients are patients who are scheduled for a series of appointments instead of a single appointment. Examples of healthcare services with series patients include radiotherapy/chemotherapy for cancer, physical therapy, kidney dialysis, diabetes treatment, etc. The aim of this study is to design appointment scheduling policies taking into account revenues per service per patient, ...
• How Decision Complexity Affects Outcomes in Combinatorial Auctions AI翻译
  作者：Adomavicius, Gediminas; Curley, Shawn P.; Gupta, Alok; Sanyal, Pallab
  作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; George Mason University
  摘要：Procurement mechanisms used by businesses have evolved from simple single-item auctions to complex multi-unit, multi-attribute, and multi-object auctions and their combinations. These state-of-the-art mechanisms offer many economic benefits but also introduce challenges such as the increased complexity in decision-making for the participants. Our primary goal in this study is to study how decision complexity affects the economic outcomes and acceptability of an advanced economic mechanism: the...