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作者：Davis, Andrew M.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：In this study, I investigate supply chain contracts in a setting where a supplier uses its inventory to directly satisfy a retailer's demand. These pull contracts have increased in popularity in practice but have not been studied experimentally. In a controlled laboratory setting, I evaluate a wholesale price contract and two coordinating contracts. The data suggest that the benefit of the two coordinating contracts over the wholesale price contract is less than the standard theory predicts, a...
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作者：Schmenner, Roger W.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：This study names a pantheon of entrepreneurs and managers who have introduced a range of far-reaching productivity innovations throughout modern history. The thread tying together all of the innovations, in whatever sector of the economy one examines, is the theory of swift, even flow. The study argues why swift, even flow explains the power and long-lasting nature of these innovations and why other factors thought by some to affect productivity fall short.
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作者：Besiou, Maria; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Companies seek sustainability by combining the quest for profitability with the pursuit of social responsibility. Since socially responsible operations are characterized by the presence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals, applying classical optimization models would seem premature; we first need to capture the behavior of the entire system before attempting to optimize sub-systems to ensure that we focus on the ones driving the behavior of interest. Alternative methodologies are r...
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作者：Hartwig, Robin; Inderfurth, Karl; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
作者单位：Otto von Guericke University
摘要：Based on a serial supply chain model with two periods and price-sensitive demand, we present the first experimental test of the effect of strategic inventories on supply chain performance. In theory, if holding costs are sufficiently low, the buyer builds up a strategic inventory (even if no operational reasons for stock-holding exist) to limit the supplier's market power, and to increase the own profit share. As it turns out, this enhances the overall supply chain performance. The supplier an...
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作者：Levina, Tatsiana; Levin, Yuri; McGill, Jeff; Nediak, Mikhail
作者单位：Queens University - Canada
摘要：Supplier reluctance to openly advertise highly discounted products on the Internet has stimulated development of opaque name-your-own-price sales channels. Unfortunately (for suppliers), there is significant potential for online consumers to exploit these channels through collaboration in social networks. In this paper, we study three possible forms of consumer collaboration: exchange of bid result information, coordinated bidding, and coordinated bidding with risk pooling. We propose an egali...
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作者：Atan, Zumbul; Erkip, Nesim
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
摘要：Eroglu et al. (2013) study a retailer with limited shelf capacity and a backroom. They study a continuous review (r, q) ordering policy with a known order quantity, q. Assuming that backorders can be satisfied from the backroom inventory (if available), they find the expression for the optimal reorder level, r. Our work builds on Eroglu et al. (2013). We correct an erroneous derivation of the expected overflow term, as well as derive an exact expression for the expected cost function, and henc...
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作者：Gao, Long
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：We examine the critical role of evolving private information in managing supply risk. The problem features a dyadic channel where a dominant buyer operates a multiperiod inventory system with lost sales and fixed cost. He replenishes from a supplier, whose private state of production is vulnerable to random shocks and evolves dynamically over time. We characterize the optimal inventory policy with a simple semi-stationary structure; it distorts order quantity for limiting information rent only...
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作者：Park, Seung Jae; Cachon, Gerard P.; Lai, Guoming; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Central Texas; University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：This paper studies whether imposing carbon costs changes the supply chain structure and social welfare. We explore the problem from a central policymaker's perspective who wants to maximize social welfare. We consider two stakeholders, retailers, and consumers, who optimize their own objectives (i.e., profits and net utility) and three competitive settings (i.e., monopoly, monopolistic competition with symmetric market share, and monopolistic competition with asymmetric market share). For the ...
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作者：Zaerpour, Nima; Yu, Yugang; de Koster, Rene B. M.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：We study temporary storage of fresh produce in a cross-dock center. In order to minimize cooling cost, compact storage systems are used. A major disadvantage of these systems is that additional retrieval time is needed, caused by necessary reshuffles due to the improper storage sequence of unit loads. In practice therefore, a dedicated storage policy is used in which every storage lane in the system accommodates only one product. However, this policy does not use the planned arrival time infor...
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作者：Marschak, Thomas; Shanthikumar, J. George; Zhou, Junjie
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：We study a newsvendor who can acquire the services of a forecaster, or, more generally, an information gatherer (IG) to improve his information about demand. When the IG's effort increases, does the average ex ante order quantity rise or fall? Do average ex post sales rise or fall? Improvements in information technology and in the services offered by forecasters provide motivation for the study of these questions. Much depends on our model of the IG and his efforts. We study an IG who sends a ...
