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作者：Gong, Yeming (Yale); de Koster, Rene B. M.; Frenk, J. B. G. (Hans); Gabor, Adriana F.
作者单位：emlyon business school; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Sabanci University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Self-storage is a booming industry. Both private customers and companies can rent temporary space from such facilities. The design of self-storage warehouses differs from other facility designs in its focus on revenue maximization. A major question is how to design self-storage facilities to fit market segments and accommodate volatile demand to maximize revenue. Customers that cannot be accommodated with a space size of their choice can be either rejected or upscaled to a larger space. Based ...
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作者：Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan; Narayanan, Sriram; Luo, Yadong; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.
作者单位：University of Miami; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Sun Yat Sen University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：As emerging markets increasingly rely on service businesses through offshore outsourcing, we examine the role of governance control mechanisms in improving performance among business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in India. Using data collected from 205 emerging market-based BPO service providers in India, we examine the antecedents and consequences of establishing governance control mechanisms in BPO service providers. Specifically, we examine how structural (use of contracts wit...
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作者：Billington, Corey; Davidson, Rhoda
摘要：Open innovation, fuelled by the rise of the Internet, has made it feasible and cheaper for firms to open themselves up to a wide range of external sources of innovative ideas. The explosive growth of open innovation intermediary networks, such as InnoCentive or Linked-in, enables the rapid pairing of firms seeking knowledge to address a wide range of business challenges (seekers) with other firms or individuals who already have relevant knowledge (solvers or knowledge brokers). These intermedi...
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作者：Gaimon, Cheryl; Bailey, Jennifer
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We synthesize research from operations management, entrepreneurship, organizational science, and strategy to investigate the performance-enhancing benefits of knowledge management activities throughout the entrepreneurial process of a high-tech venture from idea conception to commercialization. We adopt a dynamic learning perspective of entrepreneurship to understand how knowledge management activities change throughout four phases of the venture's life cycle. We introduce a framework that ide...
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作者：Shi, Ruixia; Zhang, Jun; Ru, Jun
作者单位：University of Richmond; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：In this study, we use a game-theory-based framework to model power in a supply chain with random and price-dependent demand and examine how power structure and demand models (expected demand and demand shock) affect supply chain members' performance. We demonstrate that whether a firm benefits from its power depends on the expected demand model but not on demand shock model. A firm benefits from its power only for linear but not for constant elasticity expected demand. The impact of power stru...
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作者：Ba, Sulin; Lisic, Ling Lei; Liu, Qindong; Stallaert, Jan
作者单位：University of Connecticut; George Mason University; Dow Chemical Company
摘要：We study the stock market reaction to announcements of global green vehicle innovation over a 14-year time span (1996-2009) using the event study methodology. We document that the stock market generally reacts positively to automakers' announcements of environmental innovations, consistent with prior research on the wealth effects of innovation announcements. Our results indicate that crucial green product development decisions such as innovation type and market segment choices exert direct in...
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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Northwestern University
摘要：Click tracking is gaining in popularity, and the practice of web analytics is growing fast. Whether strategic customers are willing to visit a website when they know their clicks may be tracked is an important yet complex problem, which depends on various factors. Using a newsvendor framework, we examine this problem by focusing on the operational factor: how product availability induces strategic customers to voluntarily provide advance demand information. We find that a strong Nash equilibri...
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作者：Tatikonda, Mohan V.; Terjesen, Siri A.; Patel, Pankaj C.; Parida, Vinit
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Ball State University; Lulea University of Technology
摘要：We investigate relationships between operational capabilities and new venture survival. On the basis of operations management and entrepreneurship literature, we develop a contingency framework of operational capabilities especially appropriate at different life phases of a new venture's evolution. We expect that in the first years of a new venture's life, entrepreneurs should emphasize high inventory turnover to preserve working capital, support customer responsiveness, and aid firm adaptabil...
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作者：Ketzenberg, Michael E.; Geismar, Neil; Metters, Richard; van der Laan, Erwin
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：An important difference between both manufacturing and wholesaling vs. retail is the information available concerning inventory. Typically, far less information characterizes retail. Here, an extreme environment of information shortfall is examined. The environment is technically termed unattended points of sale, but colloquially called vending machines. Once inventory is loaded into a machine, information on demand and inventory level is not observed until the scheduled reloading date. Techno...
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作者：Lu, Ye; Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：In this note, we study the price-setting newsvendor problem. We use three conditions, the log-convexity of the coefficient of variation, the log-concavity of the deterministic profit function, and the log-convexity of the random noise's expectation conditional on having leftover inventory to establish the log-concavity of the retailer's expected profit function. This new result is complementary to existing results and removes some assumptions in the pricing and inventory coordination literatur...
