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作者：Urrea, Gloria; Yoo, Eunae
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Online volunteering platforms allow humanitarian organizations (HOs) to recruit volunteers to work remotely on projects of varying urgency. While removing time and space constraints enables HOs to scale up their volunteer force, HOs must manage greater heterogeneity in volunteers' experience. We investigate empirically how volunteers' experience impacts two performance metrics on online volunteering platforms: project completion rate and volunteer retention. In addition, we examine the conditi...
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作者：Bai, Miao; Berg, Bjorn; Sir, Esra Sisikoglu; Sir, Mustafa Y.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Templating strategies specify policies on capacity allocation and appointment booking, which are central to patient access management in outpatient specialty practices (SPs). In the widely implemented partitioned templating strategy, appointment capacity is allocated exclusively to each patient group defined by a combination of patient attributes and medical conditions, which often results in utilization challenges for SPs. Motivated by problems faced by an SP within a large academic medical c...
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作者：Mohamadi, Navid; Bakhishi, Hataw; Transchel, Sandra; Besiou, Maria
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：In 2020, the world started a fight against a pandemic that has severely disrupted commercial and humanitarian supply chains. Humanitarian organizations (HOs), like the World Food Programme (WFP), adjusted their programs in order to manage this pandemic. One such program is cash and voucher assistance (CVA), which is used to bolster beneficiaries' freedom of choice regarding their consumption. In this vein, WFP supports local retailers to provide CVA to beneficiaries who do not have access to a...
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作者：Feldman, Jacob; Jiang, Puping
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：In this paper, we consider an assortment optimization problem in which a platform must choose pairwise disjoint sets of assortments to offer across a series of T stages. Arriving customers begin their search process in the first stage, and progress sequentially through the stages until their patience expires, at which point they make a multinomial logit-based purchasing decision from among all products they have viewed throughout their search process. The goal is to choose the sequential displ...
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作者：Wu, Lezhen; Wu, Xiaole; Zhou, Yu
作者单位：Fudan University; Chongqing University
摘要：Pandemics, trade frictions, and military conflicts may disrupt manufacturers' production capacity. This paper develops a two-period supply chain model with supply disruption risk in the second period to investigate inventory decisions and the manufacturer's commitment strategies. We consider three strategies: no commitment, price commitment, and inventory commitment. Inventory holding within the supply chain is investigated under each strategy, and the dominant strategy is determined by compar...
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作者：Lee, Jaeseok; Jeong, Seongkyoon; Jung, Hyun Ju
作者单位：University of Auckland; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
摘要：Climate change as a global challenge requires collective responses from stakeholders in society. As the main source of energy consumption generating greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2), firms increasingly share their problems and experiences regarding energy saving in interfirm knowledge communities. By distinguishing knowledge sharing from free-riding, we investigate how firms that participate in an interfirm knowledge community for energy saving improve their energy efficiency. We use a unique pane...
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作者：Ying, Hao; Peng, Xiaosong (David); Zhao, Xiande; Chen, Zhong
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; Lehigh University; East China Normal University; East China Normal University
摘要：Blockchain-based track and trace (BCT) is increasingly adopted in the retail supply chain. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence quantifying the effects of BCT on consumer purchases or examining the heterogeneity of these effects with varying product-related characteristics. Employing transactional data from a leading global e-retailer that contains 540 stock keeping units (SKUs), we design a quasi-natural experiment spanning 80 weeks to estimate the signaling effect of BCT (i.e...
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作者：Chan, Tian Heong; Liu, Haibo; Keck, Steffen; Tang, Wenjie
作者单位：Emory University; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Vienna; Emory University
摘要：Research has demonstrated that certain team composition factors-high expertise similarity, high network cohesion, and mixed-gender teams-have predominantly negative effects on the teams' invention outcomes. Yet these factors have also been shown to improve team coordination, which should (in theory) lead to better invention outcomes. We address this tension by highlighting the need to consider the invention's integrality, which increases task interdependencies among team members and thereby st...
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作者：Saldanha, John P. P.; Price, Bradley S. S.; Thomas, Douglas J. J.
作者单位：West Virginia University; University of Virginia
摘要：In practice, lead time demand (LTD) can be skewed, multi-modal or highly variable, and these factors compromise the validity of typical approaches used for setting safety stock levels. Motivated by encountering this problem at our industry partner, we develop an approach for setting safety stock levels using the bootstrap, a widely used statistical procedure. Existing bootstrap approaches for inventory management either operate directly on observed LTD or assume deterministic lead times, permi...
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作者：Sheu, Jiuh-Biing; Choi, Tsan-Ming
作者单位：National Taiwan University; University of Liverpool; University of Liverpool
摘要：This work addresses the issue of intelligent robot-human-coordinated parts-to-picker order fulfillment carried out in a human-friendly manner. One unique feature of the proposed approach involves integrating a real-time data-driven stochastic-dynamic model with a fatigue accumulation function. The optimal solutions help achieve coordination between human pickers and robots, such that robots can agilely adapt to the coordinated pickers' efficiency and fatigue conditions. Specifically, the propo...
