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作者：Liu, Fang; Song, Jing-Sheng; Tong, Jordan D.
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Duke University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Stockpiling inventory is an essential strategy for building supply chain resilience. It enables firms to continue operating while finding a solution to an unexpected event that causes a supply disruption or demand surge. While extremely valuable when actually deployed, stockpiles incur large holding costs and usually provide no benefits until such a time. To help to reduce this cost, this study presents a new approach for managing stockpiles. We show that if leveraged intelligently, stockpiles...
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作者：Riccobono, Francesca; Bruccoleri, Manfredi; Grossler, Andreas
作者单位：University of Palermo; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：This study explores whether the negative impact of groupthink concurrence-seeking behavior (GTB) on business process reengineering (BPR) projects is affected by group members personal traits and interpersonal ties within the group. To this purpose we conduct and present the results of a longitudinal controlled field experiment over 18 BPR projects lasting 3months and involving 18 teams comprising 71 first-year MBA students. The main contribution of this study is twofold. First, we explicitly c...
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作者：Besbes, Omar; Saure, Denis
作者单位：Columbia University; Universidad de Chile
摘要：The role of assortment planning and pricing in shaping sales and profits of retailers is well documented and studied in monopolistic settings. However, such a role remains relatively unexplored in competitive environments. In this study, we study equilibrium behavior of competing retailers in two settings: (i) when prices are exogenously fixed, and retailers compete in assortments only; and (ii) when retailers compete jointly in assortment and prices. For this, we model consumer choice using a...
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作者：Xu, Yunjian; Shi, Cong; Duenyas, Izak
作者单位：Singapore University of Technology & Design; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We study the scheduling of multiple tasks under varying processing costs and derive a priority rule for optimal scheduling policies. Each task has a due date, and a non-completion penalty cost is incurred if the task is not completely processed before its due date. We assume that the task arrival process is stochastic and the processing rate is capacitated. Our work is motivated by both traditional and emerging application domains, such as construction industry and freelance consulting industr...
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作者：de Vries, Jelle; de Koster, Rene; Stam, Daan
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：On a daily basis, thousands of employees suffer from severe occupational accidents worldwide. These accidents not only lead to negative consequences for the physical and mental health of employees, but also to high costs for companies and the society as a whole. A large share of these accidents take place in warehouses. Prior research has demonstrated the critical role of leadership, and especially safety-specific transformational leadership (SSTL), in reducing warehouse accidents. Yet several...
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作者：Spiliotopoulou, Eirini; Donohue, Karen; Cagri Guerbuez, Mustafa
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Inventory decisions made at a centralized level often rely on demand forecast information passed from regional managers within a supply chain. Such managers often have unique insights into the demand patterns at their local sites that can help inform how much inventory to order for the system as a whole. Problems can arise with this setup, however, if these managers have incentives to misreport their forecasts and the central planner (CP), in turn, mistrusts this information. The goal of our r...
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作者：Hu, Bin; Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We study a manufacturer's optimal multiple-sourcing strategies when some but not all suppliers face risks of complete supply disruptions. Using an approximate model, we show that the optimal unreliable orders are ranked by a simple and intuitive criterion, and are invariant of minor market size changes. Furthermore, when ordering from one reliable and one unreliable supplier, we show that the total order quantity and its allocation between the two suppliers are independent decisions. We then t...
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作者：Davis, Andrew M.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：In this study, I investigate supply chain contracts in a setting where a supplier uses its inventory to directly satisfy a retailer's demand. These pull contracts have increased in popularity in practice but have not been studied experimentally. In a controlled laboratory setting, I evaluate a wholesale price contract and two coordinating contracts. The data suggest that the benefit of the two coordinating contracts over the wholesale price contract is less than the standard theory predicts, a...
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作者：Schmenner, Roger W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：This study names a pantheon of entrepreneurs and managers who have introduced a range of far-reaching productivity innovations throughout modern history. The thread tying together all of the innovations, in whatever sector of the economy one examines, is the theory of swift, even flow. The study argues why swift, even flow explains the power and long-lasting nature of these innovations and why other factors thought by some to affect productivity fall short.
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作者：Ovchinnikov, Anton; Moritz, Brent; Quiroga, Bernardo F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：We investigate newsvendor ordering behavior under competition. We present a laboratory experiment that documents the behavioral ordering regularities in competitive newsvendor environments, and an analytical model extending the standard theory of newsvendor competition by including an optimal best-response policy for competing with a behaviorally biased newsvendor. We test the effectiveness of this policy using an out-of-sample experiment and find that it results in improved market share, serv...
