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作者：Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This article studies 4x4 vehicle replacement within the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), one of the largest humanitarian organizations. ICRC policy sets the replacement of vehicles at 5 years or 150,000 km, whichever comes first. Using field data collected at the ICRC headquarters and national level we study the ICRC policy. Our results suggest that the organization can make considerable savings by adjusting its replacement policy. This study contributes to the area of logistic...
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作者：Guemues, Mehmet; Li, Shanling; Oh, Wonseok; Ray, Saibal
作者单位：McGill University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
摘要：In this article, we study the price partitioning decisions of online retailers regarding shipping and handling (S&H) fees. Specifically, we analyze two partitioning formats used by retailers in this context. In the first scenario, retailers present customers with a price that is partitioned into a product price and a separate S&H surcharge (the PS strategy); in the second, customers are offered free shipping through a non-partitioned format where the product price already includes the shipping...
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作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; George, Shanthikumar J.; Max, Shen Zuo-Jun
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：In recent years, I.T.C. Limited (hereafter ITC) developed the e-Choupals for the rural areas of India. In this new business model, ITC reaches implicit agreements with some farmers (inside the network) that they can sell the products directly to ITC at the market price in the local market, but allow the farmers, both inside and outside the network, to access valuable information through the e-Choupals. In this study, we investigate ITC's incentive of offering such opportunities, especially to ...
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作者：Huh, Woonghee Tim; Lall, Upmanu
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要：The changing climate and concerns over food security are prompting a new look at the supply chain reliability of products derived from agriculture, and the potential role of contract farming as a mechanism to address climate and price risk while contributing toward crop diversification and water use efficiency is also emerging. In this study, the decision problem of a farmer associated with allocating his land among different crops with varying water requirements is considered, given that a su...
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作者：Roh, Joseph A.; Whipple, Judith M.; Boyer, Kenneth K.
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：As the global competitive landscape intensifies, firms have looked to their supply chain organizations to improve cost, visibility, and cycle time performance across functions, products, and markets. As a result, the scope of supply chain related operations have increasingly cut across organizational boundaries. To understand and capture such cross-organizational activities, researchers have broadened the focus of their studies and included multiple stakeholders in their analysis (e.g., integr...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G., Jr.; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：We analyze the market entry problem faced by startups that must integrate their service or product with one or more complementary technologies. The problem is especially challenging when the complementary technologies have uncertain cost reduction potentials. The entrepreneurship literature suggests that startups should pursue focused strategies for various reasons, including bounded rationality and budget constraints, but generally overlooks startups entering markets with complementary techno...
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作者：Andradottir, Sigrun; Ayhan, Hayriye; Down, Douglas G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; McMaster University
摘要：A fundamental aspect of designing systems with dedicated servers is identifying and improving the system bottlenecks. We extend the concept of a bottleneck to networks with heterogeneous, flexible servers. In contrast with a network with dedicated servers, the bottlenecks are not a priori obvious, but can be determined by solving a number of linear programming problems. Unlike the dedicated server case, we find that a bottleneck may span several nodes in the network. We then identify some char...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：We study the impact of product recovery on a firm's product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer's valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does not reuse quality inducing components or material but it is overall profitable (e.g., cell phone recy...
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作者：Davies, Jane; Joglekar, Nitin
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Boston University
摘要：Supply chain integration is increasingly seen as a method to obtain flexibility and, consequently, to provide competitive advantage for firms within a supply chain. Product modularity, either in concert with or independent of such integration, can also produce flexibility for firms within a supply chain. In this proof-of-concept research, we explore whether the supply chain network affects each constituent firm's market valuation and how decisions regarding the level of supply chain integratio...
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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：We analyze contracting behaviors in a two-tier supply chain system consisting of competing manufacturers and competing retailers. We contrast the contracting outcome of a Stackelberg game, in which the manufacturers offer take-it-or-leave-it contracts to the retailers, with that of a bargaining game, in which the firms bilaterally negotiate contract terms via a process of alternating offers. The manufacturers in the Stackelberg game possess a Stackelberg-leader advantage in that the retailers ...
