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作者：Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：The UN Sustainable Development Goals are not optional. They are about survival. Reaching them requires focus and strong innovation. Operations Management is about designing innovative business models to allocate scarce resources. It therefore has the toolkit to help move the sustainability agenda, provided it strongly opts for studying relevant and pressing problems and proves its potential impact. This study argues that this requires innovation as well as a paradigm shift in how we look at co...
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作者：Gupta, Manjul; Gupta, Sushil
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：The role of national culture interactions is important in operations management and supply chain management decisions. Yet, cross-cultural research in this field is limited. Our goal in this study is to review relevant research, to raise awareness about the critical role of national culture among operations management and supply chain management researchers, and to offer directions for future research. To achieve this goal, we report our research findings in three major categories: (i) Operati...
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作者：Li, Yutian; Tang, Sammi Yu; Johnson, Joseph; Lubarsky, David A.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Miami; University of Miami; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Patient no-shows and late cancellations lead to clinic inefficiency, high clinic costs and low patient satisfaction. The two main strategies clinics employed to alleviate the adverse effects of no-shows are overbooking and patient appointment reminders. Developing effective overbooking schedules depends on accurately predicting each patient's no-show probability, while developing effective reminder systems requires a patient-level estimate of communication sensitivity. Current methods of estim...
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作者：Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Kanglin; Fang, Xin; Yue, Xiaohang; Wang, Xin
作者单位：South China University of Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Singapore Management University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Motivated by Google's technology specifications on Android devices, we consider firms' decisions on production timing in a co-opetitive supply chain comprising a manufacturer and an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), where the manufacturer acts as the OEM's upstream contract manufacturer and downstream competitor. We consider the market acceptance uncertainty of key product designs. If a firm decides to implement ex post production strategy (PS), it can delay the production until the marke...
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作者：Fu, Ke; Gong, Xiting; Liang, Guitian
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jinan University
摘要：Motivated by emerging practice in the cut flower industry, we consider a periodic-review inventory system for a perishable product with a lifetime of two periods. There are two separate customer demands for the new product with two-period remaining lifetime and the old product with one-period remaining lifetime, and a fixed proportion of the unsatisfied demand for one product will purchase the other product as a substitute. One distinctive feature of our system is that a random portion of the ...
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作者：Jung, Kyung Sung; Pinedo, Michael; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah; Tiwari, Vikram
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; New York University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Vanderbilt University
摘要：Operating rooms (ORs) are the greatest source of revenues for hospitals and also their largest cost centers. When scheduling surgeries, hospitals face a trade-off between the need to conduct planned elective surgeries and the need to be responsive to emergency cases. However, scheduling ORs, especially at Level-1 trauma hospitals, is challenging due to significant uncertainties in the arrivals of patients requiring emergent surgery. The issue of allocating limited capacity to emergent surgery ...
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作者：Luo, Jianxi; Whitney, Daniel E.
作者单位：Singapore University of Technology & Design; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Contemporary products are usually designed and produced in large inter-firm supply networks rather than by single firms. However, our understanding of such networks is still limited due to the lack of network-wide empirical data as well as the complexity and nonlinearity of supply networks. Herein, we introduce a network formation model to extend and generalize the prior empirical studies that have revealed variable hierarchy topologies and firm-level transaction specificities across the suppl...
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作者：Wang, Shuming; Ng, Tsan Sheng
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; National University of Singapore
摘要：Recovery of resources from waste streams present important opportunities in mitigating environmental and energy challenges in many countries. In this paper, we develop an optimization-based approach to study the robustness of resource recovery systems in achieving economic feasibility under feedstock uncertainty. Two key characteristics of the feedstock that influence recovery performance are its volume and composition. We propose models of feedstock robustness functions to perform robustness ...
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作者：Guajardo, Jose A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The diffusion of technological innovations in developing economies has been facilitated by the use of rent-to-own business models, which give flexibility to customers by allowing them to make incremental payments over time. Understanding the implications of this flexibility is a fundamental problem for an increasing number of firms operating in these markets. In this study, we empirically analyze how consumer usage and payment behaviors interact in an application of rent-to-own to the distribu...
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作者：Wu, Qi; Muthuraman, Kumar; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper studies the effects of bank credit availability, trade credit and the capital cost on inventory decisions. There are two competing theories on the effect of bank credit lines on investments. While one (Lins et al. 2010) suggests that the primary role played by undrawn credit is to finance new opportunities, the other (Acharya et al. 2014) suggests that undrawn credit serves primarily as a bank monitored liquidity insurance. We attempt to resolve these two conflict views in the conte...
