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作者：Agrawal, Anupam; Kim, Youngsoo; Kwon, H. Dharma; Muthulingam, Suresh
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：We investigate the optimal strategies for firms to invest in their suppliers when the benefits of such investments can spillover to other firms who also source from the same suppliers. We consider two Bayesian firms that can invest in improving the quality of their shared supplier; the firms do not have complete information on the true quality of the supplier, but they update their beliefs based on the supplier's performance. We formulate the problem as an investment game and obtain Markov per...
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作者：Sheu, Jiuh-Biing
作者单位：National Taiwan University
摘要：This study presents a multi-methodological approach to investigate buyer behavior in quality-dominated multi-sourcing recyclable-material procurement of green supply chains. This work hypothesizes the correlations between buyer perceptions of supply and relational quality, quality attitude, psychological benefits, and willingness to pay. This is followed by conducting a normative analysis, where the postulated hypotheses are incorporated into a buyer behavior model which characterizes buyer de...
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作者：Mishra, Anant; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：George Mason University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：In a technology project, project integration represents the pooling together of complete, interdependent task modules to form a physical product or software delivering a desired functionality. This study develops and tests a conceptual framework that examines the interrelationships between the elements of work design, project integration challenges, and project performance. We identify two distinct elements of work design in technology projects: (i) the type of project organization based on wh...
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作者：Babich, Volodymyr; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We solve a sequential-moves game that involves three players: the franchisor, the entrepreneur, and the banks. The franchisor chooses the contract terms (a one-time franchise fee and a royalty rate for on-going payments). The entrepreneur dynamically decides when to sign this contract, open a store, and apply for debt financing to cover the initial investment. In response to the entrepreneur's application, banks competitively determine loan rates. We find that the franchisor should use royalty...
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作者：Park, John; Kazaz, Burak; Webster, Scott
作者单位：Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Pricing below cost is often classified as dumping in international trade and as predatory pricing in local markets. It is legally prohibited from practice because of earlier findings that it leads to predatory behavior by either eliminating competition or stealing market share. This study shows that a stochastic exchange rate can create incentives for a profit-minded monopoly firm to set price below marginal cost. Our result departs from earlier findings because the optimal pricing decision is...
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作者：Chen, Hao-Wei; Gupta, Diwakar; Gurnani, Haresh
作者单位：California State University System; San Jose State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Wake Forest University
摘要：In this study, we consider a two-retailer, one-supplier supply chain in which retailers satisfy excess demand by offering to directly ship out-of-stock items on an expedited basis at no extra cost to customers. This practice is referred to as the fast-ship option. We consider two scenarios along with the fast-ship option. In the first scenario, retailers transship when out of stock, whereas in the second scenario, they do not. If they do not transship, some customers may perform the search on ...
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作者：Zhang, Yuli; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Song, Shiji
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Tsinghua University
摘要：This paper studies two-stage lot-sizing problems with uncertain demand, where lost sales, backlogging and no backlogging are all considered. To handle the ambiguity in the probability distribution of demand, distributionally robust models are established only based on mean-covariance information about the distribution. Based on shortest path reformulations of lot-sizing problems, we prove that robust solutions can be obtained by solving mixed 0-1 conic quadratic programs (CQPs) with mean-risk ...
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作者：Li, Qingying; Guo, Pengfei; Li, Chung-Lun; Song, Jing-Sheng
作者单位：Donghua University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Duke University
摘要：We consider a make-to-stock, finite-capacity production system with setup cost and delay-sensitive customers. To balance the setup and inventory related costs, the production manager adopts a two-critical-number control policy, where the production starts when the number of waiting customers reaches a certain level and shuts down when a certain quantity of inventory has accumulated. Once the production is set up, the unit production time follows an exponential distribution. Potential customers...
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作者：Marshall, Donna; Metters, Richard; Pagell, Mark
作者单位：University College Dublin; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Operations Management (OM) research on organizational culture has to change to be able to inform practice. Currently, organizational culture research in OM is largely confined to narrow topical and methodological niches and culture is most frequently used as an explanatory variable in quantitative, survey-based research. We argue that the relegation of culture to this niche is due to self-imposed methodological blinders that hobble the OM field. We then present four research imperatives to rei...
