Production and Operations Management

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• The Role of Operations Management Across the Entrepreneurial Value Chain AI翻译
  作者：Joglekar, Nitin; Levesque, Moren
  作者单位：Boston University; York University - Canada
  摘要：This special issue contains articles that exemplify the role of operations management across the entrepreneurial value chain. This value chain encompasses all stages of the entrepreneurial phenomenon, including technology commercialization, where discovery, commitment, organization, and growth must take place. We report on a literature search that identifies research questions categorized with respect to topics crucial to operations management scholars and classify these questions under each s...
• The Role of Contract Negotiation and Industry Structure in Production Outsourcing AI翻译
  作者：Feng, Qi; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan
  作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  摘要：Despite the spread of cost-driven outsourcing practices, academic research cautions that suppliers' cost advantage may weaken manufacturers' bargaining positions in negotiating outsourcing agreements, thereby hurting their profitability. In this study, we attempt to further understand the strategic impact of low-cost outsourcing on manufacturers' profitability by investigating the contractual form of outsourcing agreements and the industry structure of the upstream supply market. We consider a...
• Advancing Theory in Entrepreneurship from the Lens of Operations Management AI翻译
  作者：Phan, Phillip; Chambers, Chester
  作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
  摘要：Early writings in economics describe the entrepreneur's role in terms of bearing the uncertainty inherent in new undertakings. Much of the research published in the pages of Production and Operations Management deals with management under uncertainty. The shared concerns over the impacts of multiple types of uncertainty suggest that research on Operations Management (OM) can play a role in the development of theory in entrepreneurship. We discuss aspects of such a role from two perspectives. F...
• Remanufacturing and the Component Commonality Decision AI翻译
  作者：Subramanian, Ravi; Ferguson, Mark E.; Toktay, L. Beril
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
  摘要：Firms often determine whether or not to make components common across products by focusing on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. However, component commonality decisions that ignore remanufacturing can adversely affect the profitability of the firm. In this article we analyze how remanufacturing could reverse the OEM's commonality decision that is based on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. Specifically, we determine the conditions under which the OEM's optimal de...
• Delayed Differentiation for Multiple Lifecycle Products AI翻译
  作者：Abbey, James D.; Guide, V. Daniel R., Jr.; Souza, Gilvan C.
  作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
  摘要：Modular design allows several generations of products to co-exist in the installed base as product designs change to take advantage of improved performance via modular upgrades. Use of a common base platform and modular design approach allows a firm to offer updates for improved performance and flexibility via remanufacturing when products have multiple lifecycles. However, as the product evolves through multiple lifecycles, the large pool of product variants leads to the curse of product prol...
• Robust Structural Equations for Designing and Monitoring Strategic International Facility Networks AI翻译
  作者：Kouvelis, Panos; Munson, Charles L.; Yang, Shilei
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Washington State University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
  摘要：Using predictive global sensitivity analysis, we develop a structural equations model to abstract from the details of a large-scale mixed integer program (MIP) to capture essential design trade-offs of global manufacturing and distribution networks. We provide a conceptual framework that describes a firm's network structure along three dimensions: market focus, plant focus, and network dispersion. Normalized dependent variables are specified that act as proxies for a company's placement into o...
• Script Usage in Standardized and Customized Service Encounters: Implications for Perceived Service Quality AI翻译
  作者：Victorino, Liana; Verma, Rohit; Wardell, Don G.
  作者单位：University of Victoria; Cornell University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
  摘要：This study examines the effect that verbal scripts have on customer perceived service quality for two distinct service process types. We designed a video experiment that varied the level of verbal scripting for standardized and customized service encounters. We found that in standardized service encounters, an increase in the level of verbal scripting had no effect on perceived service quality. However, for customized encounters, perceived service quality was impacted. More specifically, a pre...
• The Impact of Information Sharing on Supply Chain Performance under Asymmetric Information AI翻译
  作者：Inderfurth, Karl; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Voigt, Guido
  作者单位：Otto von Guericke University
  摘要：The use of screening contracts is a common approach to solve supply chain coordination problems under asymmetric information. One main assumption in this context is that managers without specific incentives would rather use their private information strategically than reveal it truthfully. This harms supply chain performance. This study investigates the impact of information sharing in a principal-agent setting that is typical for many supply chain transactions. We conduct a laboratory experim...
• Team Dispersion, Information Technology, and Project Performance AI翻译
  作者：Bardhan, Indranil; Krishnan, Vish V.; Lin, Shu
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of California System; University of California San Diego; California State University System; California State University Fresno
  摘要：The impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of distributed projects is not well understood. Although prior research has documented that dispersion among project teams has an adverse effect on project performance, the role of IT as an enabler of communication to bridge the spatial distance among team members in distributed networks has not been empirically studied. We focus on the role of IT as a moderator of the relationship between team dispersion and project performance usin...
• Design for the Environment: Life-Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model AI翻译
  作者：Raz, Gal; Druehl, Cheryl T.; Blass, Vered
  作者单位：University of Virginia; George Mason University; Tel Aviv University
  摘要：Introducing environmental innovations in product and process design can affect the product's cost and demand, as well as the environmental impact in different stages of its life cycle (such as manufacturing and use stages). In this article, we advance understanding on where such design changes can be most effective economically to the firm and examine their corresponding environmental consequences. We consider a profit maximizing firm (newsvendor) deciding on the production quantity as well as...