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作者：Soysal, Gonca; Zentner, Alejandro; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric)
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In this study, we investigate how consumers derive value from having the option to use physical stores for their transactions in the DVD rental market. We analyze data from consumers who subscribed to an online-offline video rental service from a leading company that closed a large number of physical store locations during our study period. We quantify the extent to which offline store closures induced individuals to terminate their subscriptions with our focal company. We further examine how ...
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作者：Shi, Jim (Junmin); Zhao, Yao; Kiwanuka, Rose B. Karimi; Chang, Jasmine (Aichih)
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要：Sustainability and long-term prosperity are chronic challenges in the agriculture sector of many countries. To address such challenges, farmer cooperatives are formed as an innovative approach to improve the livelihoods of millions of farmers around the world. Inspired by real-life practice in the Kenya coffee industry, we study a class of stochastic and dynamic inventory models for storable agricultural products with random exogenous supply and price. For a variety of cost functions relevant ...
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作者：Handley, Sean M.; de Jong, Jurriaan; Benton, W. C., Jr.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：In this study, we develop a novel theoretical model of how the relationship between the buyer's use of power and the service provider's opportunism is moderated by the provider's perceptions of dependence advantage. Analyzing a dyadic dataset of 109 professional service relationships, we find that the extent to which the buyer's use of mediated and non-mediated power aligns with the service provider's perceptions of relative dependence is germane to the power-opportunism relationship. The noti...
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作者：Huang, He; Liu, Liming; Parker, Geoffrey; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Xu, Hongyan
作者单位：Chongqing University; Lingnan University; Dartmouth College; Tulane University
摘要：Procurement auctions are widely used by governments and corporations to solicit bids for services and projects. Such auctions involve significant risk for the buyer, because the delivered quality is highly uncertain. We examine a multi-attribute procurement auction combined with a performance-based contract. In this setting, suppliers submit bids which include both price and promised quality. After the buyer awards the contract to the winning bidder with the highest score, the supplier exerts ...
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作者：Villena, Veronica H.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The increasing number of scandals about supplier violations of environmental and social regulations has put multinational companies' (MNCs) reputations at risk. Customers make MNCs accountable for such violations, regardless of whether the violations involve tier-one or lower-tier suppliers. To address this pressure, some MNCs require their tier-one suppliers to comply with their sustainability requirements and ask them to cascade such requirements to their (lower-tier) suppliers. This researc...
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作者：Parker, Geoffrey G.; Tan, Burcu; Kazan, Osman
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of New Mexico; Tulane University
摘要：The electric power industry is undergoing dramatic change driven by rapid technological transformation, concern over climate change, and evolving market structures. As a result, there is a need for new models to help the industry better utilize resources in a time of increasing uncertainty and to help government policy makers better understand the impacts of their regulatory decisions. We provide a structured review of the operations research and management science literatures to describe the ...
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作者：Bellos, Ioannis; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：George Mason University; University of Cambridge
摘要：What do a Mongolian stir-fry restaurant and a medical lab providing home testing solutions have in common? They are both innovative services that base their success on customers controlling part of the service delivery. These providers allow service tasks to be performed by the customers as a means of shaping the overall experience and not strictly as a means of outsourcing the service. Motivated by such practices, we explore whether and how should providers allocate the control of different t...
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作者：Hu, Peng; Lu, Ye; Song, Miao
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：This study considers a periodic-review joint pricing and inventory control problem for a single product, where production incurs a fixed cost plus a convex or concave variable cost. Our objective is to maximize the expected discounted profit over the entire planning horizon. We fully characterize the optimal policy for the single-period problem. As the optimal policy for the multi-period problem is too complicated to be implemented in practice, we develop well-structured heuristic policies, an...
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作者：Shen, Xiaobei; Yu, Yimin
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We consider the capacity allocation problem for a retailer with multiple suppliers and multiple demand classes. The retailer offers one seasonal product and reserves capacity from multiple suppliers. Customers in different classes are charged with different selling prices for the same product. We analyze the optimal capacity allocation policies with the following three types of customers: (i) patient customers, (ii) impatient customers, and (iii) customers with limited patience. To empower our...
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作者：Pervin, Nargis; Ramasubbu, Narayan; Dutta, Kaushik
作者单位：Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：Even with the rapid proliferation of applications (apps) running on smart handheld devices, achieving success in mobile platform ecosystems is challenging for developers because of the heavily crowded marketplaces and easy substitutability of apps. In this study, we draw inspiration from biological ecosystems research and from the operations management literatures on software production, product management, and digital platforms to empirically examine the sustainability of newly launched apps ...
