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作者：Lin, Yen-Ting; Parlaktuerk, Ali K.; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of San Diego; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We consider two competing supply chains, each consisting of supplier, a manufacturer, and a retailer. The suppliers exert effort to improve product quality, and the retailers sell products competitively. Each manufacturer chooses one of the three strategies: forward integration, backward integration, or no vertical integration. We seek for a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium and study the resulting market structure. Moreover, we characterize the effect of vertical integration on profitability, ...
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作者：Cohen, Morris A.
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作者：Feng, Tianjun; Zhang, Fuqiang
作者单位：Fudan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This article studies the impact of modular assembly on supply chain efficiency. In the modular assembly approach, a manufacturer acquires pre-assembled modules from its suppliers, rather than the individual components, as in the traditional assembly approach. We analyze the competitive behavior of a two-stage modular assembly system consisting of a manufacturer, and a supplier who pre-assembles two components into a module. The firms can choose their own inventory policies and we show the exis...
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作者：Rusmevichientong, Paat; Shmoys, David; Tong, Chaoxu; Topaloglu, Huseyin
作者单位：University of Southern California; Cornell University; Cornell University
摘要：We consider assortment optimization problems under the multinomial logit model, where the parameters of the choice model are random. The randomness in the choice model parameters is motivated by the fact that there are multiple customer segments, each with different preferences for the products, and the segment of each customer is unknown to the firm when the customer makes a purchase. This choice model is also called the mixture-of-logits model. The goal of the firm is to choose an assortment...
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作者：Spearman, Mark L.
摘要：The Principle of Least Action is the foundational principle of fundamental physics. Application of this principle to the supply chain naturally results in an uncertainty principle linking variation in production to variation in net-inventory. The model also provides an easy means of determining the stationary distribution of net-inventory for a variety of control strategies. The formalism results in a control strategy that outperforms commonly used control methods.
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作者：Crocker, Keith J.; Letizia, Paolo
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：This study characterizes the class of Pareto optimal returns policies between a manufacturer and a retailer who receives consumer returns. The manufacturer may take a costly hidden action that reduces the expected number of products returned by consumers, which when realized is hidden information known only to the retailer. When faced with consumer returns, the retailer must decide whether to send the product back to the manufacturer, who harvests a low salvage value, or to engage in costly re...
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作者：Zschocke, Mark S.; Mantin, Benny; Jewkes, Elizabeth M.
作者单位：University of Waterloo
摘要：Although project portfolio management has been an active research area over the past 50 years, budget allocation models that consider competition are sparse. Faced with the competition, firms contemplating budget allocation for their project portfolio cannot limit their attention to the returns from their projects' target markets, as is the case for monopoly firms, but must also anticipate the competitive effects on these returns. Assuming firms allocate their budgets between projects offering...
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作者：Balakrishnan, Anantaram; Sundaresan, Shankar; Zhang, Bo
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden
摘要：Although online shopping is becoming popular, consumers who are unsure about whether to buy a product may find it advantageous to visit a brick-and-mortar retail store to first examine the product before purchasing it. But, after browsing at the store, consumers have the option of switching to an e-tailer to purchase the item at a cheaper price rather than buying at the store. Recent business press refers to this browse-and-switch behavior as showrooming, and attributes to it the declining pro...
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作者：Hammami, Ramzi; Frein, Yannick
作者单位：ESC Rennes School of Business; Universite de Rennes; Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes; Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble; Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：We develop an inventory placement model in the context of general multi-echelon supply chains where the delivery lead time promised to the customer must be respected. The delivery lead time is calculated based on the available stocks of the different input and output products in the different facilities and takes into account the purchasing lead times, the manufacturing lead times, and the transportation lead times. We assume finite manufacturing capacities and consider the interactions of man...
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作者：Wu, Yaozhong; Ramachandran, Karthik; Krishnan, Vish
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：The rising trend of projects with high-skilled and autonomous contributors increasingly exposes managers to the risk of idiosyncratic individual behaviors. In this article, we examine the effects of an important behavioral factor, an individual's cost salience. Cost salience leads individuals to perceive the cost of immediate effort to be larger than the cost of future effort. This leads to procrastination in early stages and back-loaded effort over the course of the project. We model the prob...
