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作者:Guan, Xu; Wang, Yulan; Yi, Zelong; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位:Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Shenzhen University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要:In this study, we investigate a seller's voluntary disclosure strategy when serving two groups of consumers who arrive sequentially and are reference dependent with respect to product quality. Consumers may be naive or sophisticated, depending on whether they can make rational inferences from the seller's disclosure behavior and an experienced consumer's quality review. We show that when consumers are naive, the seller can strategically withhold high-quality information and disclose low-qualit...
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作者:Gui, Luyi
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要:To tackle the severe pollution caused by electronic waste (e-waste), several developing countries have introduced e-waste legislation based on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). A major challenge to implement EPR in developing countries is the lack of formal recycling infrastructure. In this paper, we study if a collective form of EPR implementation where producers may jointly invest in recycling facilities can promote their incentives to do so. We develop a Nash bargaining model that cap...
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作者:Gupta, Sushil; Starr, Martin K.; Farahani, Reza Zanjirani; Ghodsi, Mahsa Mahboob
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Kingston University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要:In this study, we review POM-based research related to prevention of terrorism. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) terrorist attacks have the potential to be prevented. Consequently, the focus of this study is on security enhancement and improving the resiliency of a nation to prevent terrorist attacks. Accordingly, we review articles from the 25 top journals, [following procedures developed by Gupta et al. (2016)], in the fields of Production and Operations Management...
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作者:Zhang, Ying; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位:Clemson University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:Warehouse solutions in emerging countries near suppliers have been adopted to achieve cost efficiency in offshore procurement. Previous academic literature ignores logistics operations costs in supply chain contracting. In this paper, we study contracting between a retailer in a developed country and a supplier in an emerging country while incorporating total landed cost (including logistics operations costs) in contracting. The retailer faces stochastic demand and stochastic lead time and det...
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作者:Apte, Aruna; Bacolod, Marigee; Carmichael, Ryan
作者单位:United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
摘要:This study offers a utility framework to identify assets for deployment into humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations. We focus on attributes of the hard assets: capabilities for humanitarian missions, proximity to the affected area, and cost to the organization. We demonstrate the importance of this framework using the case of the United States Navy (USN). On a broader level, we offer a strategy for the decision makers to deploy appropriate assets for executing HADR smart...
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作者:Thurer, Matthias; Fernandes, Nuno O.; Stevenson, Mark
作者单位:Jinan University; Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco; Universidade do Minho; Lancaster University
摘要:Material flow control mechanisms determine: (i) whether an order should be released onto the shop floor; and (ii) whether a station should be authorized to produce. Well-known approaches include Kanban, Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR), Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP), Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization (POLCA), Workload Control (WLC), and Control of Balance by Card Based Navigation (COBACABANA). The literature typically treats these approaches as competing, meaning studies argu...
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作者:de Vries, Harwin; van de Klundert, Joris; Wagelmans, Albert P. M.
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business & Entrepreneurship; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要:The population of truck drivers plays a key role in the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Truck drivers thereby affect the health and lives of many, but also suffer from poor health and significantly reduced life expectancy themselves. Due to professional circumstances, their health service needs are generally not well addressed. Therefore, the non-governmental organization North Star Alliance builds a network of healthcare facilities along the largest trucking...
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作者:Hwang, Elina H.; Krackhardt, David
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要:Effective operations require the coordination of distributed knowledge. Division and distance across teams and specialties form barriers to communication, creating insulated pockets of knowledge along geographic and specialty borders. Such fragmentation can hamper a company's ability to fully utilize existing knowledge, potentially hurting its productivity in the long run. As such, many companies have created internal online knowledge communities, in which employees can exchange solutions in v...
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作者:Sharma, Shrutivandana; Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Sartor, Giorgio
作者单位:Singapore University of Technology & Design; University of Waterloo; SINTEF
摘要:Inventory management in most practical settings faces challenges due to various restrictions on storage and replenishment of products. These restrictions may be posed by budget availability, different production/supply schedules for different products, and limited storage space shared by a number of products-very common in retail, food, and the pharmaceutical industry. Motivated by this, we investigate in this study how simultaneous restrictions on shared storage capacity and product-specific ...
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作者:Jiang, Juncai; Wang, Yu
作者单位:Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; California State University System; California State University Long Beach
摘要:Ideation contests are commonly used across public and private sectors to generate new ideas for solving problems, creating designs, and improving products or processes. In such a contest, a firm or an organization (the seeker) outsources an ideation task online to a distributed population of independent agents (solvers) in the form of an open call. Solvers compete to exert efforts and the one with the best solution wins a bounty. In evaluating solutions, the seeker typically has subjective tas...