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作者：Reiner, Gerald; Teller, Christoph; Kotzab, Herbert
作者单位：University of Neuchatel; University of Surrey; University of Bremen; Glasgow Caledonian University
摘要：In this article, we examine in-store logistics processes for handling dairy products, from the incoming dock to the shelves of supermarkets and hypermarkets. The efficient execution of the in-store logistics related to such fast-moving, sensitive, and essential items is challenging and crucial for grocery retailers' sales, profits, and image. In our empirical study, we survey in-store logistics processes in 202 grocery supermarkets and hypermarkets belonging to a major retail chain in central ...
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作者：Aflaki, Sam; Kleindorfer, Paul R.; de Miera Polvorinos, Victor Saenz
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This study addresses the challenges of finding and implementing profitable energy efficiency (EE) projects, a critical foundation for sustainable operations. We focus on manufacturing enterprises, but many of our findings apply also to the back office of service operations. Our starting point is that, in nearly every industrial enterprise, there are many profitable EE projects that could be implemented but are not. An oft-cited hindrance to implementation is the lack of an internal management ...
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作者：Thomas, L. Joseph (Joe)
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：I consider a channel with one manufacturer selling the same product to two retailers engaged in imperfect competition. The retailers are asymmetric because one has a lower marginal selling cost (or a higher demand potential) than the other. I design the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism, whereby the manufacturer must offer the same contract options to both retailers. I fully characterize the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism for varying degrees of retailer asymmetry and competiti...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Ozdemir, Oznur; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Akdeniz University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：In this study, we compare two common forms of product take-back legislation implementation: (i) manufacturer-operated systems, where the state imposes certain take-back objectives on manufacturers, and (ii) state-operated systems, where manufacturers or consumers finance take-back through recovery fees. We show that their impacts on different stakeholders, that is, social welfare, manufacturers, consumers, and the environment, can be significantly different and stakeholder preferences for thes...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G., Jr.; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：We analyze the market entry problem faced by startups that must integrate their service or product with one or more complementary technologies. The problem is especially challenging when the complementary technologies have uncertain cost reduction potentials. The entrepreneurship literature suggests that startups should pursue focused strategies for various reasons, including bounded rationality and budget constraints, but generally overlooks startups entering markets with complementary techno...
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作者：Andradottir, Sigrun; Ayhan, Hayriye; Down, Douglas G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; McMaster University
摘要：A fundamental aspect of designing systems with dedicated servers is identifying and improving the system bottlenecks. We extend the concept of a bottleneck to networks with heterogeneous, flexible servers. In contrast with a network with dedicated servers, the bottlenecks are not a priori obvious, but can be determined by solving a number of linear programming problems. Unlike the dedicated server case, we find that a bottleneck may span several nodes in the network. We then identify some char...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：We study the impact of product recovery on a firm's product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer's valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does not reuse quality inducing components or material but it is overall profitable (e.g., cell phone recy...
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作者：Bhargava, Hemant K.; Kim, Byung Cho; Sun, Daewon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Korea University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Many emerging entrepreneurial applications and services connect two or more groups of users over Internet-based information technologies. Commercial success of such technology products requires astute business practices related to product line design, price discrimination, and launch timing. We examine these issues for a platform firm that serves two marketslabeled as user and developer marketssuch that the size of each market positively impacts participation in the other. In addition, our mod...
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作者：Gokpinar, Bilal; Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating increased geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to product development operations. In this empirical study of a large auto manufacturer, we examine the operational performance implications of splitting the design of vehicle subsystems across multiple geographic...
