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作者：Ruesch, Lea; Tarakci, Murat; Besiou, Maria; Van Quaquebeke, Niels
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Disasters mobilize hundreds of organizations, but coordination among them remains a challenge. This is why the United Nations has formed clusters to facilitate information and resource exchange among humanitarian organizations. Yet, coordination failures in prior disasters raise questions as to the effectiveness of the cluster approach in coordinating relief efforts. To better understand barriers to coordination, we developed a grounded theory and augmented the theory with an agent-based simul...
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作者：Tang, Wenjie; Wang, Tong; Xu, Wenxin
作者单位：University of Vienna; Alibaba Group; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Motivated by several industry examples, we study the interaction between a technology provider introducing a new technology and downstream manufacturers adopting the new technology into their products. The manufacturers, once decided on their adoption timing, both cooperate in making demand-boosting investments to promote the technology and compete in price in the product market. Our main objective is to explore the important question of how the technology provider manipulates manufacturers' a...
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作者：Jiang, Baojun; Shi, Hongyan; Zou, Tianxin
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Universitetet i Stavanger; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：In many markets, consumers have time-varying needs for product or service quality. Recent technology advances equip firms with the on-demand product-adjustment capability (OPAC), which allows them to efficiently process customers' requests for short-term (e.g., daily or hourly) changes of service quality to meet their time-varying demands. This paper examines how OPAC affects a firm's optimal pricing and product-line decisions in a market with consumers having time-varying product needs and di...
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作者：Liu, Yan; Chen, Ningyuan
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Toronto
摘要：Money-back guarantees (MBGs), which allow customers to return products that do not meet their expectations, are widely used in the retail industry. In this study, we study a retailer's MBG policy with dynamic pricing of limited inventory. A key decision for the retailer is to decide whether to offer MBGs. When the product can be returned instantly, we find that the optimal MBG policy is a simple threshold policy: given the inventory level, it is optimal to offer an MBG if and only if the remai...
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作者：Zhang, Yuli; Richter, Amber R.; Shanthikumar, Jeyaveerasingam George; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：Beijing Institute of Technology; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study investigates dynamic inventory relocation to respond proactively to the changing relief demand forecasts over time. In particular, we examine how to relocate mobile inventory optimally to serve nonstationary stochastic demand at several potential disaster sites. We propose a dynamic relocation model using dynamic programming (DP) and develop both analytical and numerical results regarding optimal relocation policies, the minimum cost-to-go function, and the value of inventory mobili...
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作者：Zhou, Zenan; Wan, Xiang
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：In this paper, we study the disruptive power of the mobile digital sharing economy to the road freight logistics industry. New information technologies, such as the mobile internet, mobile payment methods, and GPS, have enabled platforms to match freight shippers' demand with carriers' supply by utilizing the convenience and mobility of smartphones. We empirically study the influence of the emergence of mobile digital freight matching platforms in the U.S. on the profitability and stock perfor...
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作者：Jonasson, Jonas Oddur; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of London; London Business School
摘要：In recent years, our field has seen an increase in research that explicitly emphasizes an objective of social impact in the most unprivileged parts of the world-the so-called global base of the pyramid (BOP; referring to the 2.7 billion people living on less than $2.50 per day, the largest but most resource-poor economic group globally). This trend seems to cut across the traditional application areas of operations management (OM) and operations research (OR), and it coincides with an increase...
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作者：Timonina-Farkas, Anna; Glogg, Rene Y.; Seifert, Ralf W.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：Service-level requirements play a crucial role in eliminating stock-outs in a production pipeline. However, delivering a specific service level can become an unattainable goal given the various uncertainties influencing both the production pipeline and customer demand and causing the manufacturer to adapt the initial strategy in response to disruptions. Such deviations from optimality frequently result in unexpected (and potentially very high) costs and are complex to manage. On the one hand, ...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Valdes, Leon; Zheng, Yanchong
作者单位：North Carolina State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Consumers are becoming more knowledgeable about companies' social responsibility (SR) practices. As a result, they are increasingly skeptical when companies do not provide clear information about these practices. One way to overcome this skepticism is to strengthen consumer trust through improved supply chain transparency. To create transparency requires a company to both gain visibility into its supply chain and disclose information to consumers. However, the current SR literature has only fo...
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作者：Salem, Mojtaba; Van Quaquebeke, Niels; Besiou, Maria
作者单位：Technical University of Munich
摘要：Many field office leaders contend that authoritarian leadership improves the performance of humanitarian operations. The common narrative is that authoritarian leadership helps aid workers more quickly adapt to changes and thus deliver better job performance (e.g., by improving operations in their field office). However, given that field reports often highlight extant leadership as the source of serious operational failures, could leaders with an authoritarian style be part of the problem? We ...
