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作者：Bradley, James R.
作者单位：William & Mary
摘要：We investigate the interrelationship of distribution center picking policies and supply chain inventory performance. In particular, we show how the picking sequence in the upstream supply chain link affects the inventory levels of items being replenished to a downstream link for a common ship-when-full trailer dispatching policy. Perturbing the picking sequence affects items' inventory levels asymmetrically which causes the aggregate system inventory to vary. We separate the items in replenish...
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作者：Honhon, Dorothee; Pan, Xiajun Amy
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We consider a firm managing a category of vertically differentiated goods, that is, products which differ with respect to an attribute for which all consumers prefer more to less. The goods can be sold individually, in which case they are referred to as components, or in bundles. The firm chooses the assortment of components and bundles and their selling prices to maximize profit. We show that each bundling strategy (pure components, pure bundling or mixed bundling) can be optimal and obtain c...
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作者：Dixon, Michael J.; Victorino, Liana; Kwortnik, Robert J.; Verma, Rohit
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of Victoria; Cornell University; Cornell University
摘要：The most salient or peak aspect of a service experience often defines customer perceptions of the service. Across two studies, using the same novel form of a scenario-based experiment, we investigate the design of peak events in a service sequence by testing how anticipated and surprised peaks influence customer perceptions. Study 1 captures the immediate reactions of participants and Study 2 surveys participants a week later. In both studies, we find a main effect for the temporal peak placem...
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作者：Liu, Yipeng; Guo, Hong; Nault, Barrie R.
作者单位：Northern Illinois University; University of Notre Dame; University of Calgary
摘要：We analyze trade-offs in the organization of public safety networks when network assets are distributed across districts and a district values network assets in its own and other districts. Comparing centralized, decentralized, and mixed organization forms, we capture two critical properties: interoperability among distributed technology-based network assets and the ability of districts to opt-in or opt-out of the centralized form. We model the provision of public safety networks, where networ...
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作者：Hao, Lin; Guo, Hong; Easley, Robert F.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：Unlike advertising in traditional media, a mobile platform's in-app advertising market exhibits two unique features-split structure of the mobile platform with a platform owner and an app developer jointly provisioning in-app advertising, and agency pricing for app sales. We develop a two-sided market model to analyze the role of these two unique features in determining the platform owner's optimal advertising revenue-sharing contract. Our results reveal an interesting N-shaped dynamic regardi...
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作者：De, Prabuddha; Hao, Lin; Li, Yung-Ming; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Notre Dame; National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University
摘要：In this paper, we study quality-of-service (QoS) based pricing schemes that serve as incentive mechanisms to induce sharing behaviors in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. We incorporate operational QoS metrics into users' utility functions and demonstrate how they affect individual users' content sharing decisions. Using a game-theoretic model, our study reveals how organizations respond to the changes of operational QoS metrics in their design of pricing schemes for various business objectives at ...
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作者：Shang, Guangzhi; Ghosh, Bikram P.; Galbreth, Michael R.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Arizona; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Many retailers offer refunds to consumers who, after a trial period, return a product that they find does not fit their needs. Some consumers are willing to use this return option opportunistically for short-term consumption rather than its intended purpose of resolving fit uncertainty. Such behavior has been termed wardrobing. Restocking fees (partial refunds) can be used to combat wardrobing. However, there is a trade-off involved, since partial refunds will be viewed negatively by consumers...
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作者：Erat, Sanjiv
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：In any pool of ideas that is developed in a multistage process, it is often the case that only a small fraction of top ideas are exceptional. This study formulates a model of multistage development of idea pools, and examines the impact of the structure of idea pools and of learning across stages on the extent to which the top ideas in the pool are exceptional. Our key descriptive results demonstrate that the dispersion of ideas in the pool (defined in terms of the dissimilarity between ideas)...
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作者：Qiu, Liangfei; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The increasing pervasiveness of social networks allows users to share purchase behaviors with their online friends. In this study, we examine optimal pricing strategies of a monopolistic firm using an analytical model that accounts for behavioral observational learning in social networks. We show that a seller could potentially control the information available to future customers and induce behavioral observational learning, using an information-revealing pricing strategy. This result suggest...
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作者：Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Carrillo, Janice E.
作者单位：Tulane University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：The introduction of digital goods in the media industry has gained a considerable amount of positive press due to superior features such as increased accessibility and portability. However, the distribution of these digital goods in conjunction with their physical analogs (i.e., printed books) has been operationally problematic for media supply chains. Specifically, the types of contracts utilized to distribute these goods such as agency models have come under fire in the press. A high profile...
