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作者：Sahinyazan, Feyza G.; Rancourt, Marie-Eve; Verter, Vedat
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Aid agencies implement food aid programs to alleviate chronic hunger. These agencies can choose direct, in-kind distribution of food commodities, or they can provide cash or vouchers. To determine which aid modality to use for distributing aid, organizations currently use decision trees or other guidelines. In this study, we present a novel mathematical formulation to determine the optimal approach for allocating modalities and quantities of aid to beneficiaries, while also considering the ben...
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作者：Fang, Xiang; Ru, Jun; Wang, Yunzeng
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：Motivated by the newest contract offered by Amazon.com, called the Advantage Program, we study a supply chain where a retailer offers a vendor-managed inventory with consignment contract to n suppliers for selling their products. A key parameter in the contract is the product list price that the retailer allows each supplier to choose for its own product. The retailer then sets the retail price of each product at or below its list price for selling it to the market and remits its supplier an a...
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作者：Wani, Deepa; Malhotra, Manoj; Clark, Jonathan
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Services are typically characterized by the direct participation of customers in the production process. The service-dominant (S-D) logic argues that value to consumers is always co-created by service providers and consumers jointly and reciprocally. While prior research has addressed the indirect impact of structural, infrastructural, and technology service design attributes on a customer's perceived value via the realized service delivery system, an important question remains unanswered: Do ...
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作者：Gallien, Jeremie; Leung, Ngai-Hang Z.; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; City University of Hong Kong; INSEAD Business School; Harvard University; Harvard Medical School
摘要：In many low- and middle-income countries, including Zambia, stockouts of life-saving medicines threaten the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); it is therefore vital to reduce stockouts through the use of improved inventory control policies. The associated medicine distribution problem is challenging because it involves seasonality and uncertainty in both demand and lead times, heterogeneous delivery locations, and lost demand. Besides service level and inventory costs, eq...
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作者：Wu, Chunlin; Yao, Han; Ning, Xin; Wang, Lei
作者单位：Beihang University; Beihang University; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要：As an important domain of disaster management, accident prevention is an urgent and crucial subject because of the high frequency and severe consequences of industrial accidents in recent times. Current researchers focus on organization-level safety antecedents, among which leadership receives the highest attention. However, formal leadership of senior managers is limited by the level-by-level effect attenuation, such that frontline accidents cannot be controlled substantially. Thus, this stud...
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作者：Arora, Priyank; Wei, Wei; Solak, Senay
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：Related to several efforts by governments to attain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, subsidy vouchers are used to provide monetary support to income-eligible (IE) families who cannot afford child care. However, IE families are often unable to accept an offered voucher due to an inadequate supply of voucher-accepting child care providers that best suit their needs. Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs), which administer these programs, can influence the family's propen...
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作者：Han, Xiao; Yu, Yun; Jia, Bin; Gao, Zi-You; Jiang, Rui; Zhang, H. Michael
作者单位：Beijing Jiaotong University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：In a transportation system with multiple equilibria, coordination failure occurs when a group of travelers could achieve the efficient equilibrium but fail because they cannot coordinate their decision-making under strategic uncertainty. This study investigated factors that might affect coordination behavior in mode choice with both positive and negative externalities. Subjects participated in a mode-choice game in which they were required to choose between public transport and private car. Po...
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作者：Vedantam, Aditya; Iyer, Ananth
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：We consider capacity addition decisions by a new product manufacturer faced with uncertain technology alternatives. The manufacturing capacity addition and technology development occurs in parallel, with preliminary results from a technology project's success providing valuable information to the manufacturer in adding capacity. We solve a stochastic dynamic program with Bayesian updates to obtain the manufacturer's expected profit-maximizing capacity investment decision. Our model and applica...
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作者：Kouvelis, Panos; Turcic, Danko
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：Financial hedging of raw material prices and exchange rates has become an integral part of many manufacturers' operating practices. Previous empirical research suggests that a desire to avoid financial distress and the affiliated curtailment in operations is one of the strongest hedge motivations. Taking the hedging motivation as given, we examine the effectiveness of two data-driven hedging policies at mitigating financial distress in the car manufacturing industry. The first policy is the co...
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作者：Yang, Mingwen; Jacob, Varghese S.; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Cloud computing can be viewed as an e-business in which the cloud provider sells a range of information technology services and operations over the Internet to firms. Security is a major concern for firms that move to the cloud. The security of a cloud is the joint responsibility of the cloud provider and cloud users. However, the extent to which the provider and users can affect cloud security through their efforts depends on the cloud service model. In this study, we develop a game-theoretic...
