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作者：Huang, Yiwei; Zhu, Yunxia; Kumar, Subodha; Shetty, Bala; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We study a coin supply chain problem in the context of improving efficiency. While most consumer products are distributed in one direction, coins are recirculated and reused through the economy. The Federal Reserve System (FRS), the central banking system of the United States, plays a crucial role in managing the U.S. coin supply chain (CSC). It spends a significant fraction of its annual budget on operating the U.S. CSC in order to provide banking services to depository institutions (DIs) and...
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作者：Hastig, Gabriella M.; Sodhi, ManMohan S.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London
摘要：We seek to guide operations management (OM) research on the implementation of supply chain traceability systems by identifying business requirements and the factors critical to successful implementation. We first motivate the need for implementing traceability systems in two very different industries-cobalt mining and pharmaceuticals-and present business requirements and critical success factors for implementation. Next, we describe how we carried out thematic analysis of practitioner and scho...
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作者：Choi, Dong Gu; Lim, Michael K.; Murali, Karthik; Thomas, Valerie M.
作者单位：Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH); Oregon State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We investigate the causes behind the underwhelming adoption of voluntary Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs in the residential electricity market. TOU tariffs are deployed by utilities to better match electricity generation capacity with market demand by giving consumers price incentives to reduce their consumption when electricity demand is at its peak. However, consumers in residential electricity markets are heterogeneous in their consumption preferences. Hence, utilities face a trade-off when deplo...
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作者：Valletti, Tommaso; Wu, Jiahua
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：We consider a model where a monopolist can profile consumers in order to price discriminate among them, and consumers can take costly actions to protect their identities and make the profiling technology less effective. A novel aspect of the model consists in the profiling technology: the signal that the monopolist gets about a consumer's willingness-to-pay can be made more accurate either by having more consumers revealing their identities, or by spending larger amounts of money (e.g., on thi...
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作者：Agrawal, Anupam; Mukherjee, Ujjal; Muthulingam, Suresh
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：In the automotive industry, when firms develop quality knowledge at their suppliers to address quality issues, some of the knowledge can spill over to other firms that use the same suppliers. We investigate how organizational forgetting affects such quality gains obtained from spillover. We analyze the quality data of 191 suppliers who supply similar products to two distinct businesses: a car and a commercial vehicle manufacturer. A latent class analysis identifies that the spillover of qualit...
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作者：Naumov, Sergey; Keith, David R.; Fine, Charles H.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Automated vehicles (AVs) have emerged rapidly in recent years, becoming a focus of high expectations and heated debates. Advocates argue that the arrival of AVs will make driving safer, greener, cheaper, and faster, bringing ubiquitous access to transportation while significantly reducing traffic congestion and environmental impacts. Skeptics, in contrast, suggest that the appeal of AVs will induce additional driving, offsetting or even overwhelming the positive effects of increased automation...
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作者：He, Qiao-Chu; Chen, Ying-Ju; Righter, Rhonda
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：In this paper, we study customers' learning behaviors in service operations systems, when the customers hold incorrect beliefs about the population distribution (projection effects). We propose a basic model wherein the customers are heterogeneous in both delay sensitivity and awareness of service quality, which explains rational hesitations: The uninformed and patient customers obfuscate the quality signaled by the queue length for the uninformed and impatient customers, who wait and join whe...
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作者：Li, Zhuoxin; Duan, Jason A.; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：Boston College; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Crowdfunding, a peer-to-peer fundraising mechanism, solicits capital from individual backers to support entrepreneurial projects. Entrepreneurs set a funding target and deadline; the project will be funded only if it reaches this funding target by the deadline. Backers individually decide whether to contribute, but their total contributions collectively determine whether the project will be successfully funded. This study models the dynamics of backers' contributions in the presence of success...
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作者：Qu, Huashuai; Ryzhov, Ilya O.; Fu, Michael C.; Bergerson, Eric; Kurka, Megan; Kopacek, Ludek
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In business-to-business (B2B) pricing, a seller seeks to maximize revenue obtained from high-volume transactions involving a wide variety of buyers, products, and other characteristics. Buyer response is highly uncertain, and the seller only observes whether buyers accept or reject the offered prices. These deals are also subject to high opportunity cost, since revenue is zero if the price is rejected. The seller must adapt to this uncertain environment and learn quickly from new deals as they...
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作者：He, Long; Rong, Ying; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：When product recalls happen, firms not only have to incur additional logistics costs but also suffer from a damaged reputation. Besides, they may also supply disruption risk, under which a supplier could fail to deliver the quantity ordered at all. In this study, we discuss how to mitigate supply disruption and recall risks in the perspective of (outbound) product distribution strategy in joint with (inbound) sourcing decision. Specifically, we compare the dedicated and uniform distribution st...
