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作者：Chen, M.; Chen, Z. -L.
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作者：Klastorin, Ted; Mamani, Hamed; Zhou, Yong-Pin
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：In this study, we consider the issue of preannouncing or not preannouncing the development of a new product. Our research is motivated by contrasting views in the literature and varying actions observed in practice. We develop and analyze a game theoretic model that examines the effect of a firm's preannouncement of its product development. Our model is based on a durable goods duopoly market with profit-maximizing firms. The first firm is an innovator who initially begins developing the produ...
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作者：Agrawal, Anupam; Kim, Youngsoo; Kwon, H. Dharma; 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：We investigate the optimal strategies for firms to invest in their suppliers when the benefits of such investments can spillover to other firms who also source from the same suppliers. We consider two Bayesian firms that can invest in improving the quality of their shared supplier; the firms do not have complete information on the true quality of the supplier, but they update their beliefs based on the supplier's performance. We formulate the problem as an investment game and obtain Markov per...
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作者：Sheu, Jiuh-Biing
作者单位：National Taiwan University
摘要：This study presents a multi-methodological approach to investigate buyer behavior in quality-dominated multi-sourcing recyclable-material procurement of green supply chains. This work hypothesizes the correlations between buyer perceptions of supply and relational quality, quality attitude, psychological benefits, and willingness to pay. This is followed by conducting a normative analysis, where the postulated hypotheses are incorporated into a buyer behavior model which characterizes buyer de...
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作者：Mishra, Anant; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：George Mason University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：In a technology project, project integration represents the pooling together of complete, interdependent task modules to form a physical product or software delivering a desired functionality. This study develops and tests a conceptual framework that examines the interrelationships between the elements of work design, project integration challenges, and project performance. We identify two distinct elements of work design in technology projects: (i) the type of project organization based on wh...
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作者：Letizia, Paolo; Hendrikse, George
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Downstream firms increasingly recognize the importance of integrating social and environmental concerns with their businesses. As a consequence, they urge to create incentives for their suppliers to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Contracts to provide these incentives are rarely observed in practice. If not totally absent, contracts may be incomplete, in that unforeseen contingencies or some CSR attributes that are difficult to measure may not be included in the con...
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作者：Liu, Fang; Song, Jing-Sheng; Tong, Jordan D.
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Duke University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Stockpiling inventory is an essential strategy for building supply chain resilience. It enables firms to continue operating while finding a solution to an unexpected event that causes a supply disruption or demand surge. While extremely valuable when actually deployed, stockpiles incur large holding costs and usually provide no benefits until such a time. To help to reduce this cost, this study presents a new approach for managing stockpiles. We show that if leveraged intelligently, stockpiles...
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作者：Riccobono, Francesca; Bruccoleri, Manfredi; Grossler, Andreas
作者单位：University of Palermo; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：This study explores whether the negative impact of groupthink concurrence-seeking behavior (GTB) on business process reengineering (BPR) projects is affected by group members personal traits and interpersonal ties within the group. To this purpose we conduct and present the results of a longitudinal controlled field experiment over 18 BPR projects lasting 3months and involving 18 teams comprising 71 first-year MBA students. The main contribution of this study is twofold. First, we explicitly c...
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作者：Besbes, Omar; Saure, Denis
作者单位：Columbia University; Universidad de Chile
摘要：The role of assortment planning and pricing in shaping sales and profits of retailers is well documented and studied in monopolistic settings. However, such a role remains relatively unexplored in competitive environments. In this study, we study equilibrium behavior of competing retailers in two settings: (i) when prices are exogenously fixed, and retailers compete in assortments only; and (ii) when retailers compete jointly in assortment and prices. For this, we model consumer choice using a...
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作者：Hu, Bin; Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We study a manufacturer's optimal multiple-sourcing strategies when some but not all suppliers face risks of complete supply disruptions. Using an approximate model, we show that the optimal unreliable orders are ranked by a simple and intuitive criterion, and are invariant of minor market size changes. Furthermore, when ordering from one reliable and one unreliable supplier, we show that the total order quantity and its allocation between the two suppliers are independent decisions. We then t...
