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作者：Subramanian, Ravi; Gupta, Sudheer; Talbot, Brian
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Simon Fraser University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation focuses on the life-cycle environmental performance of products and has significant implications for management theory and practice. In this paper, we examine the influence of EPR policy parameters on product design and coordination incentives in a durable product supply chain. We model a manufacturer supplying a remanufacturable product to a customer over multiple periods. The manufacturer invests in two design attributes of the product that ...
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作者：Mukhopadhyay, Samar K.; Su, Xuemei; Ghose, Sanjoy
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); California State University System; California State University Long Beach; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：We study a distribution channel where a manufacturer relies on a sales agent for selling the product, and for investing in the most appropriate marketing effort. The agent's effort is hard to monitor. In addition, the cost of effort is the agent's private information. These impose challenges to the manufacturer in its endeavor to influence the agent's marketing effort provisions and to allocate profit between the two parties. We propose two contract forms. The franchise fee contract is a two-p...
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作者：Oliva, Rogelio; Watson, Noel
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Harvard University
摘要：To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating on the forecasting approach around which the process revolves. Our analysis focuses on the forecasting process and how it mediates and accommodates the functional biases that can impair the forecast accuracy. We categorize the s...
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作者：Castillo, Ignacio; Ingolfsson, Armann; Sim, Thaddeus
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Alberta; Le Moyne College
摘要：We consider two capacity choice scenarios for the optimal location of facilities with fixed servers, stochastic demand, and congestion. Motivating applications include virtual call centers, consisting of geographically dispersed centers, walk-in health clinics, motor vehicle inspection stations, automobile emissions testing stations, and internal service systems. The choice of locations for such facilities influences both the travel cost and waiting times of users. In contrast to most previous...
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作者：Thomas, Douglas J.; Warsing, Donald P.; Zhang, Xueyi
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; North Carolina State University
摘要：We study a supply chain where an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) buys subassemblies, comprised of two complementary sets of components, from a contract manufacturer (CM). The OEM provides a demand forecast at the time when the CM must order the long lead-time set of components, but must decide whether or not to provide updated forecasts as a matter of practice. Forecast updates affect the CM's short lead-time purchase decision, and the anticipation of updates may also affect the long lea...
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作者：Zhang, Dan; Cooper, William L.
作者单位：McGill University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We study the effect of strategic customer behavior on pricing and rationing decisions of a firm selling a single product over two periods. The seller may limit the availability of the product (that is, ration) in the second (clearance) period. Some customers are strategic and respond to the firm's decisions by timing their purchases. When capacity is nonconstraining and the seller has pricing flexibility, we show that rationing in the clearance period cannot improve revenue. However, when pric...
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作者：Arkali, Goekcen; Dawande, Milind; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We consider the scheduling of ground station support times to low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites with overlapping visibilities. LEO satellites typically complete a revolution around the Earth in less than four hours at an altitude of a few hundred miles and are part of the critical infrastructure for natural resource management, crop yield estimation, meteorology, flood control, communication, and space research. Because these satellites are quite expensive to launch and operate, utilizing them ...
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作者：Grossler, Andreas; Thun, Joern-Henrik; Milling, Peter M.
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen; University of Mannheim
摘要：The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of (1) system dynamics as a structural theory for operations management and (2) system dynamics models as content theories in operations management. The key findings are that, although feedback loops, accumulation processes, and delays exist and are widespread in operations management, often these phenomena are ignored completely or not considered appropriately. Hence, it is reasoned why system dynamics is well suited as an approach for...
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作者：Spohrer, Jim; Maglio, Paul P.
作者单位：International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
摘要：The current growth of the service sector in global economies is unparalleled in human history-by scale and speed of labor migration. Even large manufacturing firms are seeing dramatic shifts in percent revenue derived from services. The need for service innovations to fuel further economic growth and to raise the quality and productivity levels of services has never been greater. Services are moving to center stage in the global arena, especially knowledge-intensive business services aimed at ...
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作者：Haruvy, Ernan; Sethi, Suresh P.; Zhou, Jing
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：We examine optimal control decisions regarding pricing, network size, and hiring strategy in the context of open source software development. Opening the source code to a software product often implies that consumers would not pay for the software product itself. However, revenues may be generated from complementary products. A software firm may be willing to open the source code to its software if it stands to build a network for its complementary products. The rapid network growth is doubly ...
