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作者：Handley, Sean M.; Gray, John V.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Quality-related incidents involving contract manufacturers (CMs) are becoming increasingly prevalent. The quality management (QM) literature, however, has focused mostly on QM within a single firm. Thus, the need for data-driven research on managing quality with outsourced production is evident. We investigate the use and effectiveness of external failure penalties and audits of CMs' facilities to manage inter-firm quality. Building on agency theory and extant QM literature, this study address...
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作者：van Burg, Elco; van Oorschot, Kim E.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Technology entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth, although entrepreneurs must maintain cooperative ties with the owners of any technology they hope to bring to market. Existing studies show that fairness perceptions have a great influence on this cooperation, but no research investigates its precise mechanisms or dynamic patterns. This study explores the development of 17 ventures that cooperated with a university-owner of technology and thereby identifies different cooper...
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作者：Fransoo, Jan C.; Lee, Chung-Yee
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：With supply chains distributed across global markets, ocean container transport now is a critical element of any such supply chain. We identify key characteristics of ocean container transport from a supply chain perspective. We find that unlike continental (road) transport, service offerings tend to be consolidated in few service providers, and a strong focus exists on maximization of capital intensive resources. Based on the characteristics of ocean container transport as part of global supp...
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作者：Meissner, Joern; Strauss, Arne; Talluri, Kalyan
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University of Warwick; ICREA; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：The network choice revenue management problem models customers as choosing from an offer set, and the firm decides the best subset to offer at any given moment to maximize expected revenue. The resulting dynamic program for the firm is intractable and approximated by a deterministic linear program called the CDLP which has an exponential number of columns. However, under the choice-set paradigm when the segment consideration sets overlap, the CDLP is difficult to solve. Column generation has b...
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作者：Yang, Jian; Xia, Yusen
作者单位：New Jersey Institute of Technology; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：We study a revenue management problem involving competing firms. We assume the presence of a continuum of infinitesimal firms where no individual firm has any discernable influence over the evolution of the overall market condition. Under this nonatomic-game approach, the unanimous adoption of an equilibrium pricing policy by all firms will yield a market-condition process that in turn will elicit the said policy as one of the best individual responses. For both deterministic- and stochastic-d...
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作者：Bhargava, Hemant K.; Kim, Byung Cho; Sun, Daewon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Korea University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Many emerging entrepreneurial applications and services connect two or more groups of users over Internet-based information technologies. Commercial success of such technology products requires astute business practices related to product line design, price discrimination, and launch timing. We examine these issues for a platform firm that serves two marketslabeled as user and developer marketssuch that the size of each market positively impacts participation in the other. In addition, our mod...
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作者：Gokpinar, Bilal; Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating increased geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to product development operations. In this empirical study of a large auto manufacturer, we examine the operational performance implications of splitting the design of vehicle subsystems across multiple geographic...
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作者：Arya, Anil; Mittendorf, Brian
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Recent years have seen a drastic transformation in the organization of wholesale and retail markets. Where once clear distinctions between wholesale suppliers and retail competitors existed, now an era of blurring boundaries has emerged. This transformation has been marked by the introduction of online channels for suppliers to provide products directly to consumers while, at the same time, traditional retailers too persist. Thus, retailers are both wholesale customers and retail competitors o...
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作者：Kuo, Chia-Wei; Ahn, Hyun-Soo; Aydin, Goker
作者单位：National Taiwan University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This article examines the choice of pricing policy (posted pricing or negotiation) toward end customers in a supply chain. Many retailers actively decide whether or not to encourage negotiation on the shop floor. Of course, the retailer's pricing policy influences not only the retailer's profit, but also the profits of the manufacturers who sell through the retailer. However, little is known about the forces that shape the pricing policy when two self-interested parties interact in a supply ch...
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作者：Hausman, Warren H.; Lee, Hau L.; Subramanian, Uma
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University; The World Bank
摘要：This paper studies the impact of logistics performance on global bilateral trade. Taking a supply chain perspective, logistics performance refers to cost, time, and complexity in accomplishing import and export activities. We draw on a data set compiled by the World Bank containing specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of time, cost, and variability in time. Numerous researchers have shown that logistics performance is statistically significantly related to the volume...
