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作者：Zhang, Wenchang; Liu, Chewei; Ming, Liu; Cheng, Yue
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKU Shenzhen); Peking University
摘要：Live-streaming commerce, a combination of live streaming and e-commerce on social media platforms, has been a huge phenomenon over the past few years. Recently, the lucky draw (also known as sweepstakes) stands out as one of the most popular promotion innovations for traffic acquisition in live-streaming commerce. As a non-price-based operational lever, lucky draws offer not only utilitarian benefits (i.e., winning rewards) but also social values that engage and entertain participants (i.e., p...
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作者：Hou, Jingbo; Liang, Chen; Chen, Pei-yu
作者单位：Santa Clara University; University of Connecticut; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Social technologies have revolutionized global connectivity, enabling instant sharing of information and virtual experiences of real-time events. In the context of natural disasters, including pandemics like COVID-19, these technologies can facilitate the dissemination of crucial localized information via social connectivity, enhancing awareness and preventive behavior even in areas not immediately threatened by the disaster or virus. Our paper investigates the relationship between socially pe...
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作者：Terekhov, Maxim A.; Demirezen, Emre M.; Aytug, Haldun
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper summarizes emerging practice and research issues in the health insurance industry. We provide an industry overview, epitomize business analytics applications, and outline current and emerging problems of interest to key stakeholders and researchers in information systems, operations management, and healthcare management. Specifically, we focus on three areas of research that are of importance to the health insurance industry as well as the healthcare system: (i) management and evalu...
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作者：Castro, Francisco; Frazelle, Andrew E.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Once autonomous vehicles (AVs) are deployed for ride-hailing platforms, human drivers will compete with AVs until AV costs decrease enough to eliminate human drivers entirely. We examine a ride-hailing platform's strategy to recruit human drivers while operating a private AV fleet. Using a game-theoretic model, we analyze how the platform sets the human-driver wage and the size of its AV fleet. We show that setting a higher wage can surprisingly lead to less human-driver participation. Moreove...
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作者：Fruchter, Gila E.; Prasad, Ashutosh; Reutterer, Thomas
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; University of California System; University of California Riverside; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：In a globalized economy, companies face a range of challenges and opportunities related to relocating production activities to a new country. Relocation can yield significant cost savings and other benefits, but there are also risks including potential damage to the brand image. Thus, firms need to carefully evaluate when to relocate and when to stop production in a particular location. We formulate an optimal control model and derive analytical as well as numerical results to provide insights...
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作者：Qian, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Quan; Olsen, Tava Lennon
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Wollongong; University of Melbourne
摘要：Equity investment in agricultural cooperatives (co-ops) is typically limited to farmer-members; yet farmers are usually cash-constrained. In addition to the common stock that is held by farmer-members, many co-ops are changing their financial structure by raising equity from external investors. This helps co-ops to collect capital, but also brings to the fore the conflicting benefits of farmers and external investors. In this paper, we develop a two-stage game-theoretic model to examine a star...
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作者：Ke, Zhihong; Liu, De; Brass, Daniel J.
作者单位：Clemson University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Kentucky
摘要：Firms are increasingly relying on electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), in the form of online reviews and social media posts, to sell their products or services. A pivotal component of managing eWOM is to understand and, potentially influence, how one consumer's eWOM can lead to another's-a process called behavioral cascading. While prior eWOM research has established the importance of behavioral cascading between connected users, there is little understanding of what factors could impact the likel...
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作者：Metters, Richard; Ketzenberg, Michael; Abbey, James
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：This study investigates the determinants of salary for operations management scholars. Is it as some opine that the only thing that matters is the publication count in A journals? How do the full range of activities: research, teaching, service, and administration, affect salary? The present research seeks to shed light on these questions and is predicated on a data set that consists of the research, teaching, and service outcomes, along with salary, for a full census of operations management ...
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作者：Yu, Hao; Huang, Min; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：Northeastern University - China; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Multi-party carpooling emerges as a burgeoning shared transportation scheme whereby the trip shared by each driver is shared among multi-party riders whose itineraries coincide. Confronting the information asymmetry and the voluntary self-interested nature of bilateral participants in matching and pricing operations, this study designs Multi-party cArpooling SupporTed stratEgy-pRoof (MASTER) double auction mechanisms considering personalized carpooling constraints. First, in a scheduled carpoo...
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作者：Zheng, Shengming; Zheng, Quan; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This study examines how wholesale price discrimination (WD) by a supplier affects different parties in a supply chain involving a common supplier distributing homogeneous products through two competing retailers with different costs under wholesale price contracts. Especially, we allow for contract unobservability, where the contract terms between the supplier and each retailer are secret to the rival retailer. Intuitively, given the downstream asymmetry, WD should be more advantageous than th...
