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作者：Chen, Junlin; Chen, Shi; Xie, Yujie; Wang, Jinting
作者单位：Central University of Finance & Economics; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We study a supply chain comprising a downstream retailer and multiple complementary suppliers. Suppliers can form coalitions to jointly invest in sustainable production technologies and enhance the product's corporate social responsibility (CSR) level. Coalition members benefit from efficiency gains through shared knowledge and information about green production. The retailer sources from these coalitions and sells the product to heterogeneous consumers. We develop a game-theoretical model and...
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作者：Moradi, Shahryar; Saure, Antoine; Patrick, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：This study examines a patient scheduling problem with multiple appointment types and priority levels, where certain appointments must precede others and lead times play a crucial role. Although both factors significantly influence the quality of care-particularly when specialist assessments depend on timely diagnostic tests-they have been largely overlooked in existing healthcare scheduling models. To address this gap, we propose a dynamic scheduling model that explicitly incorporates appointm...
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作者：Onen Oz, Sena; Gumus, Mehmet; Qi, Wei
作者单位：McGill University; Tsinghua University
摘要：City dwellers often struggle with on-street parking in many cities, where they generally need to pay for parking in advance. However, drivers usually cannot accurately foresee how much parking time they need. Compared to traditional payment methods, that is, cash and credit card through on-site meters, mobile payment applications provide more flexibility: drivers can adjust their parking sessions remotely if a longer stay is in need. Utilizing data from an online survey and high-resolution tra...
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作者：Fu, Chenyi; Zhu, Ning; Zhou, Minglong
作者单位：Northwestern Polytechnical University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Fudan University
摘要：The prevalence and development of autonomous vehicle technology can reshape the status quo in vehicle manufacture, transportation, and logistics industries, leading to safer daily travel activities, higher power savings, and lower urban pollution. Traditional autonomous vehicle technology focuses on advancing vehicle-related technology, aiming to equip vehicles with high computational capability at a cost. One key initiative to improve traffic information collection and processing is the devel...
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作者：Hu, Xinru; Li, Jianbin; Lu, Lijian
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Online marketplaces such as Amazon and Tmall have been expanding services to boost the growth of their ecosystems. One is information service on sharing privately gathered massive consumer data that is unavailable to their sellers, and the other is financing service, e.g., Amazon Lending and Ant Financial, aiming to provide accessible and affordable financial support for small and medium-sized sellers. This paper develops a game-theoretical model to examine the interplay between information sh...
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作者：Ren, Xinyi; Evers, Philip T.; Windle, Robert J.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：With the increasingly uncertain future of brick-and-mortar (B&M) retailing, companies are exploring new ways to avoid the high costs associated with maintaining traditional, full-service retail stores. One solution, pop-up stores, has gained popularity in recent years. This paper uses empirical evidence from a leading U.S. retailer to examine the value of pop-up retailing. Specifically, we focus on pop-up stores operated by a traditional multichannel retailer over 3 years and examine their imp...
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作者：Srivastava, Abhishek; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Shkula, Shipra; Devi, Yashoda
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Kashipur; University of Liverpool; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Jammu
摘要：The second-hand market (SM) trades used products from the reverse channel. In practice, manufacturers such as Apple Inc. collect used products and sell refurbished products in the SM. However, third-party firms (TPFs) such as Gazelle independently manage the SM. Alternatively, the manufacturer may delegate the responsibility of managing the SM to a TPF under a contract or choose to operate in the SM with a TPF serving as a competitor. The optimal strategy to manage the SM is an important opera...
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作者：Kwon, Juhee; Johnson, M. Eric
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Vanderbilt University
摘要：As data breaches become an increasingly common risk, they are now a matter of when rather than if. While there has been active research on breaches, much of the work has focused on the antecedents and prevention of breaches, leaving the quantitative ramifications and variations in breach impact relatively unexplored. To address this gap, our study quantifies the impact of breaches on operational performance and identifies how operational, technological, and market factors moderate the impact. ...
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作者：Hunt, Kyle; Guney, Sule; Zhuang, Jun; John, Richard
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of California System; University of California Irvine; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Southern California
摘要：Due to the strategic and adaptive nature of adversaries, the deployment of new technologies is common practice in the arenas of security and defense (e.g., new baggage scanners at airports). History has shown that the deployment of these technologies has often been disclosed to the public, allowing malicious actors to potentially understand which venues are defended, and how. There is limited research examining how information disclosed about the deployment of new security measures can impact ...
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作者：Wu, Jianghua; Zhang, Dan; Liu, Yan
作者单位：Renmin University of China; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：A stream of recent research considers the practice of random price discounts (a.k.a randomized pricing) when selling to forward-looking customers and shows that such pricing strategies can mitigate strategic customer waiting and boost seller profit. In practice, random price discounts are often offered together with price guarantees, in which customers are refunded the price difference if the price is lowered within a given time window after purchase. This paper investigates the efficacy of pr...
