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作者：Bakshi, Nitin; Kleindorfer, Paul
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper considers the problem of disruption risk management in global supply chains. We consider a supply chain with two participants, who face interdependent losses resulting from supply chain disruptions such as terrorist strikes and natural hazards. The Harsanyi-Selten-Nash bargaining framework is used to model the supply chain participants' choice of risk mitigation investments. The bargaining approach allows a framing of both joint financing of mitigation activities before the fact and...
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作者：Cai, Gangshu (George); Chao, Xiuli; Li, Jianbin
作者单位：Kansas State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Tsinghua University; Huazhong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Few papers have explored the optimal reserve prices in the name-your-own-price (NYOP) channel with bidding options in a multiple channel environment. In this paper, we investigate a double-bid business model in which the consumers can bid twice in the NYOP channel, and compare it with the single-bid case. We also study the impact of adding a retailer-own list-price channel on the optimal reserve prices. This paper focuses on achieving some basic understanding on the potential gain of adding a ...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Sarvary, Miklos
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Product and waste take-back is becoming more regulated by countries to protect the environment. Such regulation puts an economic burden on firms, while creating fairness concerns and potentially even missing its primary target: environmental benefits. This research discusses the economic and environmental impacts of extended producer responsibility type of legislation and identifies efficiency conditions. It is shown that the right policy would (i) make producers responsible for their own wast...
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作者：Chung, Wenming; Swink, Morgan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas El Paso; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：The objectives of this research are first to empirically replicate Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) utilization taxonomies identified in foregoing research, second to investigate the relationship between patterns of AMT utilization and manufacturing capabilities attainment, and third to explore differences in context, and performance across AMT groups. Theories of performance frontiers and capability progression provide the basis for our hypotheses. Data were collected from 224 U.S. man...
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作者：Qi, Lian; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Snyder, Lawrence V.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Lehigh University
摘要：We consider a continuous-review inventory problem for a retailer who faces random disruptions both internally and externally (from its supplier). We formulate the expected inventory cost at this retailer and analyze the properties of the cost function. In particular, we show that the cost function is quasi-convex and therefore can be efficiently optimized to numerically find the optimal order size from the retailer to the supplier. Computational experiments provide additional insight into the ...
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作者：Pagell, Mark; Gobeli, David
作者单位：York University - Canada; Oregon State University
摘要：Managers are increasingly faced with pressure to think not just about profits, but also about their organization's environmental and social performance. This research provides a first examination of operational managers' experiences with and attitudes about employee well-being and environmental issues, how these factors impact employee well-being and environmental performance, and how the three performance measures interrelate. We use violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
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作者：Lacourbe, Paul; Loch, Christoph H.; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; INSEAD Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper examines the optimal product portfolio positioning for a monopolist firm in a market where consumers exhibit vertical differentiation for product performance and horizontal differentiation for product feature. Our key results are as follows: (i) Variable costs drive vertical differentiation. In the presence of significant volume-dependent manufacturing costs, the optimal portfolio contains a mix of vertically and horizontally differentiated products and an increase in the variable c...
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作者：Holt, Charles C.
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作者：Sommer, Svenja C.; Loch, Christoph H.
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Designing incentive contracts that constructively guide employee efforts is a particularly difficult challenge in novel innovation initiatives, where unforeseen events may occur. Empirical studies have observed a variety of incentive structures in innovation settings: time and material contracts (compensation for executing orders), downside protection (target-driven incentives with protection from unexpected risks), and upside rewards (additional remuneration for pursuing opportunities). This ...
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作者：Kulkarni, Vidyadhar G.; Kumar, Subodha; Mookerjee, Vijay S.; Sethi, Suresh P.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We develop variations of the M|G|1 queue to model the process of software maintenance within organizations and use these models to compute the optimal allocation of resources to software maintenance. User requests are assumed to arrive following a Poisson process and a binomial distribution is used to model duplication of requests. We obtain expressions for expected queue lengths with an exponential server using an N-policy for an integer N >= 1. We also obtain the optimal batching size and me...
