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作者：Schlapp, Jochen; Fleischmann, Moritz; Sonntag, Danja
作者单位：Frankfurt School Finance & Management; University of Mannheim
摘要：Firms that sell products over a limited selling season often have only imperfect information about (a) the exact timing of that season, (b) the demand volume to expect, and (c) the temporal distribution of demand over the selling season. Given these uncertainties, firms must determine not only how much inventory to stock but also when to make that inventory available to customers. We thus ask: What is a firm's optimal inventory quantity and timing for products sold during a stochastic selling ...
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作者：Shen, Bin; Dong, Ciwei; Minner, Stefan
作者单位：Donghua University; Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; Technical University of Munich
摘要：The phenomenon of copycats is common in a wide range of industries. Recently, to indicate product authenticity and combat copycats, many brand name companies (BNCs) have started selling products through retailers. These BNCs deploy a scalable protocol that is integrated into a permissioned blockchain technology (PBT) platform. We examine how PBT combats copycats in the supply chain and how it benefits BNCs. Although PBT implementation helps novice customers identify product authenticity and th...
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作者：Li, Xue; Cai, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jian
作者单位：Beijing Foreign Studies University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; Tsinghua University
摘要：We consider a supply chain consisting of an incumbent national brand manufacturer and a retailer, who wishes to determine the private label encroachment strategy. By investigating the cost-quality trade-off between lower- and higher-quality private labels, we characterize the retailer's optimal encroachment decisions. Intuitively, the retailer would choose to introduce a lower-quality private label when the quality of the national brand is high. However, we find that a higher-quality private l...
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作者：Kanuri, Vamsi K.; Habel, Johannes; Chaker, Nawar N.; Rangarajan, Deva; Guenzi, Paolo
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; IESEG School of Management; Bocconi University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Business-to-business (B2B) sellers are increasingly transitioning to hybrid sales structures, by augmenting an in-person field sales force with a direct online channel. During this transition, sellers frequently experience a cold-start problem, wherein existing customers are either not acquainted with the online channel or unconvinced of its usefulness and are therefore reluctant to adopt it. To overcome the cold-start problem, B2B sellers are increasingly relying on online sales pushes, which...
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作者：Mithas, Sunil; Chen, Zhi-Long; Saldanha, Terence J., V; Silveira, Alysson De Oliveira
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, additive manufacturing, advanced robotics, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things are frequently mentioned as part of Industry 4.0. As such, how will they influence operations and supply chain management? We answer this question by providing a brief review of the evolution of technologies and operations management (OM) over time. Because terms such as Industry 4.0 do not have a precise definition, we focus on more fund...
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作者：Fine, Charles H.; Padurean, Loredana; Naumov, Sergey
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Northeastern University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Although entrepreneurship-related papers have had some representation in Production and Operations Management (POM) over the past 30 years, the topic still seems a bit like a poor stepchild in the research of operations management (OM) scholars. Yet, entrepreneurship is important to the economy, and many schools are growing significantly their entrepreneurship programs and offerings but often without reference to or inclusion of operations courses. This paper is motivated by the question of th...
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作者：Xing, Guomin; Chen, Zhi; Zhong, Yuanguang; Zhou, Yong-Wu
作者单位：South China University of Technology; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We investigate the implications and interplay of emergency supply and responsive pricing-two effective strategies to mitigate supply risk-in response to yield randomness with limited distributional information. Specifically, we adopt a distribution-free approach to study an ambiguity-averse monopoly's joint price and production decisions given the random yield's mean and variance-arguably two of the most widely used and easy-to-estimate summary statistics. We derive for four models, which resu...
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作者：He, Ying; Rui, Huaxia
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Rochester
摘要：This paper studies two fundamental questions regarding probabilistic selling in vertically differentiated markets: When is it profitable and how does one design it optimally? For the first question, we identify an important but overlooked economic mechanism driving probabilistic selling in vertically differentiated markets: the convexity of consumer preferences. In stark contrast to the literature finding that probabilistic selling is never profitable except in the presence of certain capacity...
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作者：Shao, Lusheng; Wang, Derui; Wu, Xiaole
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Fudan University
摘要：Many agricultural commodities are traded in both forward and spot markets. This paper studies the interplay of random yield and forward market in a hybrid market with spot and forward transactions. We examine two main questions: (a) How does yield uncertainty (yield risk and yield correlation) affect the equilibrium outcome in this hybrid market? (b) How does the existence of a forward market influence the firms' strategic behaviors and spot price volatility, and how does yield uncertainty med...
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作者：Gour, Alekh; Aggarwal, Shikha; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：Goa Institute of Management; Goa Institute of Management; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Governments and healthcare organizations increasingly pay attention to social media for handling a disease outbreak. The institutions and organizations need information support to gain insights into the situation and act accordingly. Currently, they primarily rely on ground-level data, collecting which is a long and cumbersome process. Social media data present immense opportunities to use ground data quickly and effectively. Governments and HOs can use these data in launching rapid and speedy...
