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作者：Azizi, Shima; Bozkir, Cem Deniz Caglar; Trapp, Andrew C.; Kundakcioglu, O. Erhun; Kurbanzade, Ali Kaan
作者单位：Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ozyegin University
摘要：There are 26 million refugees worldwide seeking safety from persecution, violence, conflict, and human rights violations. Camp-based refugees are those that seek shelter in refugee camps, whereas urban refugees inhabit nearby, surrounding populations. The systems that supply aid to refugee camps may suffer from ineffective distribution due to challenges in administration, demand uncertainty and volatility in funding. Aid allocation should be carried out in a manner that properly balances the n...
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作者：Daniels, Kaitlin M.; Valdes, Leon
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Non-profit organizations (NPOs) play a critical role in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, directing resources from donors to aid recipients. To achieve this, they often rely on donations of physical goods, which can not only further the mission of the NPO, but also give new life to used goods destined for the landfill. However, not all donations are wanted or needed-the NPO may be space constrained or the donation may be of poor quality. Accepting unwanted donations imposes non-t...
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作者：Lawrence, Benjamin; Zhang, Jie J.; Hsu, Liwu; Zheng, Sarah
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Victoria; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville
摘要：Hotel franchising presents a unique network context for investigating inter-organizational collaboration. Franchisees and franchisors must collaborate closely but face incompatible incentives in allocating financial and human resources to invest in three types of operations: centralized, network-level operations run by the franchisor; distributed, outlet-level operations managed by franchisees; and coordinated operations, which use franchisee and franchisor inputs. This study employs a mixed-m...
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作者：Tang, Shaojie; Yuan, Jing
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Personality quiz is a powerful tool that enables costumer segmentation by actively asking them questions, and marketers are using it as an effective method of generating leads and increasing e-commerce sales. We study the problem of how to select and sequence a group of quiz questions so as to optimize the quality of customer segmentation. We assume that the customer will sequentially scan the list of questions. After reading a question, the customer makes two, possibly correlated, random deci...
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作者：Zhu, Han; Yu, Yimin; Ray, Saibal
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; City University of Hong Kong; McGill University
摘要：For experience goods (products or services), given the uncertainty about their actual quality and the growing popularity of social media, potential customers nowadays depend on experiences of peers who have used the goods previously to learn about their quality. In this paper, we study how such customer learning affects a firm's (credible) quality disclosure strategy as well as other relevant decisions. To model such learning, we adopt the anecdotal reasoning framework, which we show to be rat...
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作者：Salvador, Fabrizio; Madiedo, Juan Pablo
作者单位：IE University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Global firms often attempt to utilize modular product architectures to ease the distribution of project work among subsidiaries. However, empirical findings on the effectiveness of this approach are mixed. Seeking to clarify this matter, we investigate the conditions under which modular product platform use is associated with cross-subsidiary distribution of project work. Through an in-depth case study of a global corporation, we find that a firm's ability to leverage modular product platforms...
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作者：Hong, Yili; Shao, Benjamin B. M.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：E-procurement platforms facilitate transactions between suppliers and buyers from all over the world. Over time, suppliers and buyers may develop familiarity from prior experience with earlier transactions. The literature has established that prior experience leads to better project performance. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of prior experience between buyers and suppliers in e-procurement platforms with a focus on the moderating roles of temporal distance and language difference...
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作者：Kasapidis, Gregory A.; Paraskevopoulos, Dimitris C.; Repoussis, Panagiotis P.; Tarantilis, Christos D.
作者单位：Athens University of Economics & Business; University of London; Athens University of Economics & Business
摘要：A common assumption in the shop scheduling literature is that the processing order of the operations of each job is sequential; however, in practice, there can be multiple connections and finish-to-start dependencies among the operations of each job. This paper studies flexible job shop scheduling problems with arbitrary precedence graphs. Rigorous mixed integer and constraint programming models are presented, as well as an evolutionary algorithm is proposed to solve large-scale problems. The ...
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作者：Koca, Esma; Valletti, Tommaso; Wiesemann, Wolfram
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：When releasing a new version of a durable product, a firm aims to attract new customers as well as persuade its existing customer base to upgrade. This is commonly achieved through a rollover strategy, which comprises the price of the new product as well as the decision to discontinue the sale of the existing product (solo rollover) or to sell the existing product at a discounted price (dual rollover). In this study, we argue that the timing of the new product release is an important-but commo...
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作者：Lee, Chung-seung; Cakanyildirim, Metin
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This study is motivated by a fundamental question among researchers: do price data correspond to a pure strategy Nash equilibrium of an estimated econometric model of Bertrand competition? The affirmative answer to this question is essential for validating the estimated model. Despite the extensive empirical applications of Bertrand competition over the last three decades, answering the question remains a daunting task for the researchers. This study takes a step to fill this gap, identifying ...
