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作者：Lee, Junghee; Wei, Lai; Hu, Ming; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Toronto; China Europe International Business School
摘要：We investigate the burgeoning trend of prosumers, who have transformed from traditional consumers into active renewable energy producers. While prosumers help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuels, they often remain connected to the grid as a backup. This practice requires that utility companies reserve capacity, and conventional consumers share these associated costs. We develop a stylized model to comprehensively assess the impact of prosumers. Our findings demonstrate...
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作者：Jetley, Gaurav; Zhang, He
作者单位：Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona
摘要：Electronic health record (EHR) clinical notes constitute a core documentation subsystem through which physicians externalize clinical assessments and care plans in narrative form. Yet clinical documentation is time intensive and is frequently viewed as an administrative burden, leaving limited evidence on whether and how physician note usage improves inpatient operational efficiency and downstream quality outcomes. This study examines the impact of lead physician note activity on discharge eff...
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作者：Jiang, Houyuan; Pang, Zhan; Savin, Sergei
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We study the effects of hospital consolidations on access to care in a competitive healthcare market in the presence of performance incentives. We consider a transition from a pre-merger market configuration where a payer delegates services to a market with two competing hospitals to a horizontally consolidated configuration under which the same entity manages two hospitals. We focus on two research questions: How should the payer set access-based performance incentives in response to a horizo...
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作者：Yao, Shiqing; Zhu, Kaijie; Yang, Ruina
作者单位：Monash University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Xi'an Jiaotong University; Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：Counterfeits cause tremendous damages to brand companies by eroding their market shares and reducing customers' buying motives. In response to such damages, many companies choose to develop and deploy anti-counterfeiting technologies, thus preventing counterfeiters from imitating their products. The companies can also rely on law enforcement exerted by local regulatory authorities to outlaw counterfeits. In this article, we study how brand companies may leverage the two approaches effectively....
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作者：Arunachalam, S.; Manchiraju, Hariom; Suhag, Rahul; Kopalle, Praveen K.
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Indian School of Business (ISB); Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Dartmouth College
摘要：This research assesses the impact of Indian government-mandated firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) related investments on gross margins. Using a multimethod approach, we show (a) a positive relationship between CSR investments and gross margin and (b) the moderating role of advertising investment. The contribution of our research is three-fold. First, our results suggest that mandating firms to spend on CSR can be a win-win situation for firms and governments, as opposed to the view ...
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作者：Xie, Karen; Liu, Jianwei
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Dalian University of Technology
摘要：Customer experiences largely define the success of service operations. As home sharing continues to change how consumers travel and penetrate local markets, we study the impact of home sharing on customer experiences at local travel attractions. Our empirical strategy hinges on the staggered rollout of home sharing across attractions at times. We first found that home sharing positively affects customer experiences at attractions. Using large-scale property-level customer reviews, we then trac...
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作者：Cardonha, Carlos H.; Cire, Andre A.; Real, Lucas C. Villa
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Toronto; University Toronto Scarborough; University of Toronto
摘要：In this article, we investigate the problem of sequencing data requests for linear devices, such as magnetic tapes, to minimize response time in cold-storage solutions for archival data. Tapes are the technology of choice for long-term storage due to their reliability, low costs, security, and significant energy savings. However, physical limitations on tape pose challenges to policy implementation, which must be scalable on low-power hardware. We provide a theoretical and numerical analysis o...
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作者：Pei, Jun; Sun, Zijun; Yan, Ping; Qiu, Liangfei
作者单位：Hefei University of Technology; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Recently, leading manufacturers have started adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) to assist operators in capturing assembly operational errors. These manufacturers choose to develop internal ICTs and decide whether to implement proactive experiential learning to continuously improve the rate of recognizing assembly operational errors, or acquire external ICTs from third-party technology providers that increase the rate of recognizing assembly operational errors but fail t...
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作者：Yao, Yipu; Ding, Li; Zhao, Yanlu
作者单位：Durham University; Renmin University of China
摘要：We study dynamic routing in an agricultural machinery repair network where mobile repair teams travel to spatially dispersed breakdowns and both travel and on-site repair times are stochastic and comparable. We formulate a finite-horizon Markov decision process tracking each team's job list and service path, and derive a tractable index-based policy via Whittle-style Lagrangian relaxation that decomposes the original problem into team-wise subproblems. For each team, we obtain a closed-form in...
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作者：Ball, George P.; Beer, Ruth; Parker, Rodney P.; Urrea, Gloria; Villa, Sebastian
作者单位：Indiana University System; Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：When an automotive manufacturer recalls a defective vehicle, federal law requires the manufacturer to send a recall notification letter to affected consumers using standardized language. Regardless of whether the recall was initiated voluntarily by the manufacturer or due to pressure from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), these recall letters imply that the manufacturer acted proactively to protect consumer safety, although this is not always accurate. We refer to the...
