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作者：Zhang, Mengxia; Luo, Lan
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Online knowledge-sharing platforms such as Quora and Zhihu (a leading knowledge-sharing platform in China) often use both peer voting and followers to encourage user knowledge contributions. However, these platforms diverge in whether they highlight followers, upvotes, or both as reputation symbols. To better understand the consequences of these platform design choices, we conduct a field experiment with 1,696 focal users on Zhihu where we exogenously increase upvotes or/and followers for trea...
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作者：Chen, Xin; Liu, Zexuan; Wang, Qiong; Xu, Juan
作者单位：Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：We study a two-tier supply chain in which multiple manufacturers sell their products through a single retailer, and consumer choices follow a Multinomial Logit model. Each manufacturer selects from its portfolio an assortment of products to sell, subject to a cardinality constraint on the size of the assortment. We consider both the case where manufacturers take wholesale prices as given and the case where they set their own wholesale prices. The retailer determines the retail prices of the pr...
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作者：Zhu, Yixin; Chen, Hongfan(Kevin); Zhang, Renyu; Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：We consider the dynamics of a two-sided platform, where the agent population on both sides experiences growth over time with heterogeneous growth rates. The compatibility between buyers and sellers is captured by a bipartite network. The platform sets commissions to optimize its total profit over T periods, considering the trade-off between short-term profit and growth as well as the spatial imbalances in supply and demand. We design an asymptotically optimal policy with the profit loss upper-...
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作者：Wang, Ningning; Li, Zhuoxin
作者单位：China University of Petroleum; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The advance in e-commerce has provided firms with more options when designing their channel structures. The rise of beyond profit managerial doctrine has also added complexity to channel design. Extending the literature in distribution channels that focuses on for-profit firms, this paper develops a stylized model to examine the channel design problem for a socially responsible manufacturer who pursues a dual-purpose objective-the manufacturer values both profit and consumer surplus. We compar...
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作者：Xiao, Shengsheng; Ho, Yi-Chun (Chad); Zhou, Zhijin; Tan, Yong; Zhang, Mingrui
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; George Washington University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Denver
摘要：Crowdfunded Supply Chain Finance (SCF) represents a novel market design that transforms financial flows within the SCF paradigm. It enables crowd investors to serve as financers, lending vital working capital to suppliers facing liquidity problems. A distinctive feature of this market is the mandatory involvement of loan guarantors, which facilitates repeated interactions between investors and fundraisers, potentially fostering investor learning. To understand how such learning dynamics shape ...
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作者：Xie, Si; Sharma, Siddhartha; Mehra, Amit
作者单位：George Mason University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Livestream e-commerce has emerged as a novel way to promote and sell products. This channel differs from existing promotion channels like TV/online video advertising because viewers voluntarily consume the content on this channel and are highly engaged due to social interactivity with the livestreamer and other viewers. A key design aspect of product promotions is the duration for which a product is presented during a livestream session. In this article, we empirically study the impact of prod...
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作者：Park, Young Soo; Lee, Yun Shin; Siemsen, Enno
作者单位：Kookmin University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Bath
摘要：We examine when and how task division improves performance for inventory planning. Specifically, we consider a decentralized inventory management context with two interdependent subtasks: preparing a forecast and setting a service level. Using a behavioral experiment, we reveal that the task challenge moderates the relationship between task division and performance. Our findings indicate that task division improves performance when the task becomes more challenging, such as under high demand u...
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作者：Villa, Sebastian; Castaneda, Jaime Andres; Urrea, Gloria
作者单位：University of New Mexico; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Maintaining a high service level with customers involves a fundamental tradeoff between investing in inventory and investing in expediting the shipping of the additional units needed to achieve that service level. We use a multi-method approach to show how and when ordering decisions are influenced by different levels of expediting costs and target service levels. First, we derive a mathematical model that provides a closed-form solution to this tradeoff. Second, we run a behavioral study to s...
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作者：Jiang, Yang; Tan, Yong; Chen, Xi
作者单位：Nanjing University; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Referral programs have received increasing attention as a way to enhance project fundraising in crowdfunding. To improve operational efficiency and performance, many crowdfunding platforms allow users to exert more effort (referral effort) when making referrals. In this paper, we study the impact of users' referral efforts on referral outcomes, using a unique data set from a reward-based crowdfunding platform. We analyze three types of referral effort beyond merely sharing the referral link, n...
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作者：Canellas, Maureen; Luo, Joyce; Pachamanova, Dessislava; Perakis, Georgia
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; UMass Chan Medical School; University of Massachusetts Worcester; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Babson College
摘要：The management of diagnostic services is a challenging and important task for hospital systems. Suboptimal scheduling of diagnostic services increases patient wait times and reduces the availability of overnight beds that could otherwise be utilized by incoming patients. Patients are served by a limited number of diagnostic technologists, who frequently experience uneven workload distributions and disproportionate workload demands. We propose a framework for analyzing and addressing workload i...
