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作者：Balakrishnan, P. V. (Sundar); Pathak, Surya
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell
摘要：Models of innovation diffusion typically depict an inexorable momentum once the process begins to roll. Limited production capacity, however, can place a cap on this process, leading to waiting lines of potential customers, thus diminishing overall service quality and the speed of diffusion. Identifying the minimum production capacity needed for unimpeded and unimpaired diffusion can ensure that there are no customers waiting to adopt the product. We propose a production-capacity-constrained d...
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作者：McCoy, Jessica H.; Lee, Hau L.
作者单位：Nike Inc; Stanford University
摘要：Inefficiency and inequity are two challenges that plague humanitarian operations and health delivery in resource-limited regions. Increasing capacity in humanitarian and health delivery supply chains is one option that has the potential to improve equity while maintaining efficiency. For example, the nonprofit organization Riders for Health has worked to increase capacity by providing reliable transportation to health workers in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa; with more motorcycle hours at ...
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作者：Cai, Xiaoqiang; Zhou, Xian
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Macquarie University
摘要：We consider a problem where a firm produces a variety of fresh products to supply two markets: an export market and a local market. A public transportation service is utilized to deliver the products to the export market, which is cheap, but its schedule is often disrupted severely. Each time this happens, the firm faces the following questions. (i) For a product that has been finished and is waiting for delivery to the export market, should it continue to wait, at an increasing risk of decay,...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Jacobs, Brian W.
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：The relationship between emissions reduction and firm financial performance has been studied with mixed results. We consider potential sources of this ambiguity by examining announcements of voluntary emissions reduction (VER) from 1990 to 2009. We measure the stock market reaction associated with VER announcements to estimate the effects of time, emissions type, and whether the reduction was announced ex ante or ex post. We find that the market reaction to VER significantly decreased over tim...
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作者：Narayanan, Sriram; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.; Talluri, Srinivas
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We examine the role of knowledge diversity among unit members on an organizational unit's productivity. Utilizing a proprietary data set of corrective maintenance tasks from a large software-services firm, we investigate the impact of two key within-unit diversity metrics: interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity. We analyze the independent influence of interpersonal diversity and the interactive influence of interpersonal diversity and intrapersonal diversity on organizational unit...
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作者：Vakharia, Asoo J.; Wang, Lan
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We consider a supplier selling to multiple retailers using one of two constant wholesale pricing strategies: a uniform wholesale price (UWP) vs. a retailer-specific wholesale price (RSWP). In line with the prior literature in economics, our initial finding is that as long as retailers are asymmetric, then (a) the supplier and less efficient retailer would prefer the RSWP strategy and (b) the more efficient retailer would prefer the UWP strategy. By examining the total profits of the supply cha...
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作者：Kalkanci, Basak; Chen, Kay-Yut; Erhun, Feryal
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hewlett-Packard; Stanford University
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作者：Karabati, Selcuk; Yalcin, Zehra Bilginturk
作者单位：Koc University; Koc University
摘要：We consider a pricing and short-term capacity allocation problem in the presence of buyers with orders for bundles of products. The supplier's objective is to maximize her net profit, computed as the difference between the revenue generated through sales of products and the production and inventory holding costs. The objective of each buyer is similarly profit maximization, where a buyer's profit is computed as the difference between the time-dependent utility of the product bundle he plans to...
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作者：Fang, Xiang; Ru, Jun; Wang, Yunzeng
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：We study a decentralized assembly supply chain in which an assembler (she) assembles a set of n components, each produced by a different supplier (he), into a final product to satisfy an uncertain market demand. Each supplier holds private cost information to himself, for which the assembler only has a subjective estimate. Furthermore, the assembler believes that the suppliers' costs follow a joint discrete probability distribution. The assembler aims to design an optimal menu of contracts to ...
