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作者：Pang, Zhan; Shen, Houcai; Cheng, T. C. E.
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作者：Bansal, Saurabh; Transchel, Sandra
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：The manufacturing complexity of many high-tech products results in a substantial variation in the quality of the units produced. After manufacturing, the units are classified into vertically differentiated products. These products are typically obtained in uncontrollable fractions, leading to mismatches between their demand and supply. We focus on product stockouts due to the supply-demand mismatches. Existing literature suggests that when faced with product stockouts, firms should satisfy all...
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作者：Chao, Raul O.; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C., Jr.; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Many large organizations use a stage-gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage-gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no-go decisions. This decentralized decision making results in an agency problem because the idea quality in early stages is unknown to the executive and the project manager must exert unobservable development effort in later stages. In ...
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作者：Hutchison-Krupat, Jeremy; Chao, Raul O.
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Most organizations employ collaborative teams to manage innovation projects. Although the use of collaborative innovation teams is a good starting point, an organization's ability to innovate can be enhanced by managing risk-taking behavior through monetary incentive schemes and through an organizational culture that tolerates failure. This article reports the results of two controlled experiments aimed at understanding how tolerance for failure and incentives impact the decisions of individua...
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作者：Lim, Yun Fong; Wu, Yue
作者单位：Singapore Management University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：It is challenging to maximize and maintain productivity of a U-line with discrete stations under the impact of variability. This is because maximizing productivity requires assigning workers to suitable tasks and maintaining productivity requires sufficient flexibility in task assignment to absorb the impact of variability. To achieve this goal, we propose an operating protocol to coordinate workers on the U-line. Under the protocol the system can be configured such that its productivity is ma...
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作者：Tang, Sammi Y.; Gurnani, Haresh; Gupta, Diwakar
作者单位：University of Miami; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Supply disruptions are all too common in supply chains. To mitigate delivery risk, buyers may either source from multiple suppliers or offer incentives to their preferred supplier to improve its process reliability. These incentives can be either direct (investment subsidy) or indirect (inflated order quantity). In this study, we present a series of models to highlight buyers' and suppliers' optimal parameter choices. Our base-case model has deterministic buyer demand and two possibilities for...
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作者：Easton, Fred F.
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Although cross-trained workers offer numerous operational advantages for extended-hour service businesses, they must first be scheduled for duty. The outcome from those decisions, usually made a week or more in advance, varies with realized service demand, worker attendance, and the way available cross-trained workers are deployed once the demands for service are known. By ignoring the joint variability of attendance and demand, we show that existing workforce scheduling models tend to oversta...
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作者：Besiou, Maria; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; INSEAD Business School
摘要：The work of international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) frequently involves operating in remote locations, decentralized decision-making, and the simultaneous implementation of development and disaster response programs. A large proportion of this work is funded by earmarked donations, since donors often exhibit a preference for the programs they are willing to fund. From extensive research involving qualitative descriptions and quantitative data, and applying system dynamics methodology, ...
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作者：Wu, Xiaole; Niederhoff, Julie A.
作者单位：Fudan University; Syracuse University
摘要：This paper studies the impact of fairness concerns on supply chain performance (SCP) in the two-party newsvendor setting. We extend prior fairness analysis to a wide range of demand distributions, and also allow the degree and definition of fairness to assume a broader range of preferences than those in prior literature. Contrary to prior literature, we find that if the retailer's ideal allocation to the supplier is not sufficiently large, regardless of demand variability, a fair-minded retail...
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作者：Guo, Liang; Li, Tian; Zhang, Hongtao
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; East China University of Science & Technology
摘要：We investigate strategic information sharing in two competing channels. The retailer in a channel can ex post decide whether to share private demand information with his upstream manufacturer after the content of information becomes known. We find that a retailer discloses low demand and withholds high demand to induce lower wholesale prices from his manufacturer. We show that a retailer should share less information when the retail market becomes more competitive, but should disclose more inf...
