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作者：Li, Shengli; Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Jin, Yong
作者单位：Peking University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：While the optimal distribution channel strategy of physical goods has been extensively studied, there is a lack of research for that of enterprise software as a digital good. This research analyzes the optimal distribution strategy of enterprise software by taking into account the distinct features of enterprise software for both the short-run problem, in which the software quality is fixed, and the long-run problem, in which the software quality becomes part of the strategic decisions. Our re...
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作者：Kettunen, Janne; Kwak, Young Hoon
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：We show that the schedule for contracting public procurements can impact the number of proposals and thereby the cost of procured services or products. This holds when the market for procurement contracts is not perfectly competitive, which is typically the case for large and costly public procurements. We formalize this previously unexplored operational level problem of scheduling procurement contracting and develop an optimization framework to solve it. For large problems we propose a hierar...
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作者：Laker, Lauren F.; Froehle, Craig M.; Windeler, Jaime B.; Lindsell, Christopher John
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Xavier University; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Vanderbilt University
摘要：The healthcare industry has invested heavily in electronic health records and other clinical information systems in order to improve caregivers' access to information and ability to share information with other care providers. It has been shown that these systems can readily induce in their users a state of information overload, where the volume and complexity of information overwhelms the user, leading to lower decision speed and quality. This research introduces and tests a cognitive techniq...
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作者：Corbett, Charles J.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：The rapid growth of big data provides tremendous opportunities for making better decisions, where better can be defined using any combination of economic, environmental, or social metrics. This essay provides a few examples of how the use of big data can precipitate more sustainable decision-making. However, as with any technology, the use of big data on a large scale will have some undesirable consequences. Some of these are foreseeable, while others are entirely unpredictable. This essay hig...
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作者：Sun, Haoying; Xu, Lizhen
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We study the provision of collaborative services under online reviews, where the service outcome depends on the effort of both the service provider and the client. The provider decides not only her own effort but also the client's, at least to some extent. The client gives the review based on his net utility upon service completion. We develop a signal-jamming model in which the provider's inherent capability or type is unobservable, and the market infers the provider type through observable s...
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作者：Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：There has been a significant increase in the scale and scope of humanitarian efforts over the last decade. Humanitarian operations need to berapid, impactful, sustained, and efficient (RISE). Big data offers many opportunities to enable RISE humanitarian operations. In this study, we introduce the role of big data in humanitarian settings and discuss data streams which could be utilized to develop descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive models to significantly impact the lives of people in n...
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作者：Huang, Yufei; Gokpinar, Bilal; Tang, Christopher S.; Yoo, Onesun Steve
作者单位：University of Bath; University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：When deciding whether to adopt an innovative product or service, consumers often experience different levels of anxiety (i.e., nervousness) that prompt them to resist purchase (e.g., fear of learning new technologies, disruption of established habits or beliefs). In such cases, consumers' anxiety is mitigated by validation through externality (e.g., the number of early adopters). To reduce consumers' anxiety, firms can also invest in familiarization through promotion (e.g., offering free trial...
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作者：Ru, Jun; Shi, Ruixia; Zhang, Jun
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of San Diego; Fudan University
摘要：Enabled by the advances in information technology (IT), many supply chain partners have adopted the practice of vendor-managed inventory (VMI) to improve operations efficiency. While the IT investment for VMI implementation can be significant, the benefits of VMI to different supply chain members are not obvious based on anecdotal evidences and empirical studies. This paper studies the effects of VMI on a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer to shed light on when an IT ...
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作者：Eftekhar, Mahyar; Masini, Andrea; Robotis, Andreas; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; INSEAD Business School
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作者：Mak, Vincent; Seale, Darryl A.; Gisches, Eyran J.; Yang, Rui; Cheng, Meng; Moon, Myounghee; Rapoport, Amnon
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; University of Arizona; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：The Braess Paradox (BP) illustrates an important counterintuitive observation that adding links to a directed transportation network with usage externalities may raise the costs of all users. Research on the BP traditionally focuses on congestible networks. We propose and experimentally test a new and more dramatic version of the BP, where the network exhibits both congestion (negative externalities) and cost-sharing (positive externalities) characteristics. Our design also involves experiment...
