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作者：Grass, Emilia; Ortmann, Janosch; Balcik, Burcu; Rei, Walter
作者单位：University of Mannheim; Universite de Montreal; University of Quebec; University of Quebec Montreal; Ozyegin University; University of Quebec; University of Quebec Montreal; Universite de Montreal; University of Mannheim
摘要：One of the major challenges for humanitarian organizations in response planning is dealing with the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty in disaster situations. The available information that comes from different sources in postdisaster settings may involve missing elements and inconsistencies, which can hamper effective humanitarian decision-making. In this paper, we propose a new methodological framework based on graph clustering and stochastic optimization to support humanitarian decision-mak...
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作者：Li, Jin; Yang, Xiaodong; Shi, Victor; Cai, Gangshu (George)
作者单位：Zhejiang Gongshang University; Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; Wilfrid Laurier University; Santa Clara University
摘要：There has been extensive research on the strategic choice between supply chain centralization and decentralization. However, most research assumes complete centralization or complete decentralization but omits the commonly adopted supply chain structure of partial centralization. With partial centralization, a firm owns a portion, but not all, of its partner. To help fill this research gap, in this paper, we make a major contribution by explicitly analyzing partial centralization in a supply c...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Anderson, Edward G. G.; Keith, David R. R.; Lopez, Jose
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Operations management (OM) in the public policy context is extremely complex with many mutually interacting factors characterized by feedback loops, delays and nonlinearities, as well as multiple stakeholders pursuing divergent objectives. Prior researchers have called for a systems approach in these contexts, arguing that standard OM methodologies such as mathematical programming, and queuing theory often cannot fully address these problems. Researchers have employed one such systems approach...
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作者：Gao, Yuetao; Johnson, Norman; Shen, Bo; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：Xiamen University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Wuhan University; Wuhan University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：A downstream manufacturer can procure high-quality inputs from its upstream raw material supplier to produce finished products with high quality. The manufacturer may also have the option to source alternative cheaper low-quality inputs to partially replace the inputs from its supplier to produce finished products of lower quality. That is, the manufacturer can use a mixture of the supplier's inputs and alternative ones in product design such that product quality depends on the proportion of e...
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作者：Bolton, Gary E. E.; Bonzelet, Sabrina; Stangl, Tobias; Thonemann, Ulrich W. W.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Cologne
摘要：This study examines human ordering behavior in service-level inventory contracts, a class of contracts important in practice. Studies of wholesale price contracts find that people tend to place orders that are suboptimal and biased toward mean demand. Unlike wholesale price contracts, service-level contracts can be parameterized such that they have steep expected profit functions, making the expected profit-maximizing order more salient, in the sense that deviations from optimal ordering are m...
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作者：Loots, Thomas; den Boer, Arnoud V.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam
摘要：We consider dynamic pricing and demand learning in a duopoly with multinomial logit demand, both from the perspective where firms compete against each other and from the perspective where firms aim to collude to increase revenues. We show that joint-revenue maximization is not always beneficial to both firms compared to the Nash equilibrium, and show that several other axiomatic notions of collusion can be constructed that are always beneficial to both firms and a threat to consumer welfare. N...
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作者：Kang, Kang; Doroudi, Sherwin; Delasay, Mohammad; Wickeham, Alexander
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We propose a new modeling framework for evaluating the risk of disease transmission during a pandemic in small-scale settings driven by stochasticity in the arrival and service processes, that is, congestion-prone confined-space service facilities. We propose a novel metric, system-specific basic reproduction rate, inspired by the basic reproduction rate concept from epidemiology, which measures the transmissibility of infectious diseases. We derive our metric for various queueing models of se...
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作者：Wooten, Joel O.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This paper explores how innovation breakthroughs can stimulate future progress in individual innovation. It does this by introducing a new contest mechanism-one that shows signals of performance can yield information about the solution space. Simply put, observing another's high performance is a clue that can lead solvers to devise ways of achieving their own breakthroughs. Using a unique dataset of predictive modeling contests from Kaggle, we use 25,898 distinct attempts at innovation to high...
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作者：Smith, Evelyn O.; Shulman, Jeffrey D.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Retail sellers authorized to sell a branded product may divert some units to an unauthorized dealer thus enabling the dealer to become a direct competitor. Because these sellers vary in quality, it is often unclear what type of seller is more motivated to participate in diversion. We develop an analytical model to demonstrate how vertically differentiated sellers make diversion decisions responding to an unauthorized dealer under unique circumstances not considered by previous research. The mo...
