Production and Operations Management

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• Monetization on Mobile Platforms: Balancing in-App Advertising and User Base Growth AI翻译
  作者：Ji, Yonghua; Wang, Ruibing; Gou, Qinglong
  作者单位：University of Alberta; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong
  摘要：Monetizing the growth of mobile platforms is increasingly important as more and more users adopt mobile platforms such as the Google's Android OS and the Apple's iOS. In this study, we use a differential game theoretical model to study the problem of joint advertising investment and in-app advertising adoption decisions by platform owners and app developers on a mobile platform. A key finding is that a platform owner may delay or even not offer an in-app advertising program if the revenue from...
• An Approach for Managing Operating Assets for Humanitarian Development Programs AI翻译
  作者：Fard, Milad Keshvari; Eftekhar, Mahyar; Papier, Felix
  作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; ESSEC Business School
  摘要：Every year, humanitarian organizations assign a sizable portion of their limited financial resources to procure, operate and maintain operating assets, without which service delivery would be nearly impossible. In this study, using vehicles to represent operating assets, we identify policies for sizing and allocating operational capacity to minimize the expected deprivation costs in a humanitarian development context. First, we develop a stochastic dynamic programming model, and then an effici...
• Disruptive Innovation, Market Entry and Production Flexibility in Heterogeneous Oligopoly AI翻译
  作者：Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Flath, Christoph M.; Trigeorgis, Lenos
  作者单位：Cranfield University; University of Wurzburg; University of Cyprus; University of London; King's College London
  摘要：We develop a model of oligopoly competition involving innovation effort, market entry and production flexibility under demand uncertainty. Several heterogeneous firms make efforts to develop new prototypes; if they succeed, they hold a shared option to enter a new market under stochastic demand. We derive analytic results for the Markov perfect equilibrium accounting for development effort, market entry and production decisions and complement these by numerical analyses. Firm value-which embed...
• Same or Different? An Aesthetic Design Question AI翻译
  作者：Li, Krista J.; Liu, Yan
  作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
  摘要：Should brands selling status goods design high-end and low-end products to look the same or different? In this paper, we study how brands make this aesthetic design differentiation decision. We first empirically analyze the impact of a brand's aesthetic design differentiation on consumers' preferences for the brand's products using seven years of data of a status good (i.e., cars). We find that consumers prefer high-end products of a brand to look more differentiated but prefer low-end product...
• To Adapt or Design: An Emerging Market Dilemma for Automakers AI翻译
  作者：Jonnalagedda, Sreelata; Saranga, Haritha
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  摘要：Multinational automakers tend to be biased toward adapting products designed for their primary markets to emerging or secondary markets. The preference for such adapted product design (APD) approach arises from reduced costs associated with product design and development. However, the growing importance of emerging markets combined with the recognition of their idiosyncratic needs have led automakers to consider an alternative product development approach that simultaneously incorporates the n...
• Does Forecast-Accuracy-Based Allocation Induce Customers to Share Truthful Order Forecasts? AI翻译
  作者：Pekgun, Pelin; Park, Minseok; Keskinocak, Pinar; Janakiram, Mani
  作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Intel Corporation; Intel USA
  摘要：Through a behavioral study, we investigate buyers' strategic order forecasting behavior in a multi-period setting under a forecast accuracy-based allocation policy, where the supplier allocates (proportionally) more inventory to the buyer with the better order forecast accuracy in case of scarce supply. We developed an interactive game that simulates a supply chain in which one supplier sells a key component to two buyers, who in turn sell to consumers. In each period, buyers share forecasts o...
• Service Center Staffing with Cross-Trained Agents and Heterogeneous Customers AI翻译
  作者：Coban, Elvin; Heching, Aliza; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
  作者单位：Ozyegin University; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA; Carnegie Mellon University
  摘要：We model a real-world service center with cross-trained agents serving customer requests that are heterogeneous with respect to complexity and priority levels: High priority requests preempt low priority requests and low-skilled agents can only serve less complex requests, while high skilled agents can serve all requests. Our main aim is to dynamically assign requests to agents considering the priority and complexity levels of requests. We model this system as a Markov chain that is infinite i...
• Socially Optimal Contracting between a Regional Blood Bank and Hospitals AI翻译
  作者：Paul, Anand; Rajapakshe, Tharanga; Mallik, Suman
  作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Kansas
  摘要：Motivated by the operational challenges faced by a Regional Blood Bank (RBB) in distributing the blood (and related products) among the hospitals in its service area, we study socially optimal contracting decisions of an RBB serving multiple hospitals. The supply of blood can be uncertain and insufficient to satisfy the total orders from hospitals. In the face of supply uncertainty, hospitals tend to over-order to compensate for a potential supply shortfall. When all hospitals inflate their or...
• Sourcing Contract under Countervailing Incentives AI翻译
  作者：Gan, Xianghua; Feng, Qi; Sethie, Suresh P.
  作者单位：Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：We study a retailer's sourcing contract when the supplier's reservation profit (offered by his outside options) depends on his cost, which is privately known to only the supplier. An interesting discovery from our analysis is that supply chain coordination may be achieved despite the information asymmetry between the two firms regarding the supplier's type (i.e., his cost). This happens when the marginal contribution of the supplier's cost efficiency to the trade matches with the supplier's ma...
• Service Level Constrained Inventory Systems AI翻译
  作者：Jiang, Yuchen; Shi, Cong; Shen, Siqian
  作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Motivated by the importance of service quality in nowadays customer business environment, we focus on inventory optimization under probabilistic service level constraints, namely, the alpha service level (also known as the ready rate) or the beta service level (also known as the fill rate). Under service level constraints, we consider two canonical stochastic inventory models: (i) the classical inventory control model with backlogging and (ii) the remanufacturing inventory control model with r...