Production and Operations Management

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• Co-opetition strategies in supply chains with strategic customers AI翻译
  作者：Yang, Weizhe; Wu, Yaozhong; Gou, Qinglong; Zhang, Wen
  作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; National University of Singapore; Jiangnan University
  摘要：We study the co-opetition strategy between a manufacturer of a proprietary component (MPC) and an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The MPC can choose to supply components to the OEM and can also compete in the end market with its own final product. Customers can purchase from either firm and are strategic in that they choose whether to buy now or later. In a two-period game theoretical model, we analyze the MPC's optimal co-opetition strategy, which mainly concerns whether to sell to the...
• Incentivizing at-risk production capacity building for COVID-19 vaccines AI翻译
  作者：Sun, Hongmei; Toyasaki, Fuminori; Sigala, Ioanna Falagara
  作者单位：York University - Canada; Hanken School of Economics
  摘要：Our study analyzes capacity management for promising vaccine candidates before regulatory approval (i.e., at-risk capacity building) in the presence of production outsourcing and different operational challenges: misaligned interests, possible ex post negotiations, asymmetric information between developers and manufacturers, and government involvement. We develop analytical models to compare two vaccine production modes: (1) the integrated mode (a single company determines the at-risk capacity...
• Implementing trade-in programs in the presence of resale platforms: Mode selection and pricing AI翻译
  作者：Bai, Xuanming; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Li, Yongjian; Sun, Xiaochen
  作者单位：Tianjin University; University of Liverpool
  摘要：Resale platforms such as Swappa and ThredUP, which provide a channel for product-holders to sell used products, have become common. Interestingly, in the presence of resale platforms, some firms, such as Apple, set lower rebates for the trade-in-for-upgrade (TU) mode instead of implementing the trade-in-for-upgrade-and-cash (TUC) mode as Huawei does. In this paper, we build game-theoretical models to explore how a firm should adjust its trade-in strategy (e.g., choose pricing and mode selectio...
• Dynamic pricing and production control in a two-item make-to-stock system with flexible dual sourcing and lost sales AI翻译
  作者：Li, Ruobing; Xiao, Li; Yao, Dacheng
  作者单位：Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School; Tsinghua University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Academy of Mathematics & System Sciences, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Tsinghua University; Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
  摘要：We consider a joint control of pricing and production in a two-item inventory system, where each item can be produced by its dedicated source or a shared flexible source, under the lost-sales setting. The demands of the two items are correlated. Due to the complexity caused by the lost-sales assumption and the interplay between pricing and production decisions, we show the optimal value function satisfies five structural properties under certain conditions. The optimal ordering and pricing pol...
• Impact of praise cashback strategy: Implications for consumers and e-businesses AI翻译
  作者：Wu, Pengkun; Ngai, Eric W. T.; Wu, Yuanyuan
  作者单位：Sichuan University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Harbin Institute of Technology
  摘要：This study focuses on a broadly adopted but largely underexplored cashback strategy, the praise cashback strategy (PCS), which aims to entice consumers to keep purchases and post positive online reviews. The literature acknowledges the impact of cashback strategies on consumers' purchase and review behaviors; however, it does not focus on how they affect consumers' return behaviors. Moreover, there are few studies on the effect of cashback strategies on consumer surplus and social welfare in t...
• Augmenting fake content detection in online platforms: A domain adaptive transfer learning via adversarial training approach AI翻译
  作者：Ng, Ka Chung; Ke, Ping Fan; So, Mike K. P.; Tam, Kar Yan
  作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Singapore Management University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Singapore Management University
  摘要：Online platforms are experimenting with interventions such as content screening to moderate the effects of fake, biased, and incensing content. Yet, online platforms face an operational challenge in implementing machine learning algorithms for managing online content due to the labeling problem, where labeled data used for model training are limited and costly to obtain. To address this issue, we propose a domain adaptive transfer learning via adversarial training approach to augment fake cont...
• Patterns in firms' inventories and flexibility levels after a low-probability, high-impact disruption event: Empirical evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake AI翻译
  作者：Durach, Christian F.; Repasky, Tomas; Wiengarten, Frank
  作者单位：heSam Universite; ESCP Business School; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); heSam Universite; ESCP Business School
  摘要：How do firms respond after being exposed to a low-probability, high-consequence (lp-hc) disruption event? This study examines inventory and flexibility patterns in manufacturing firms in the years following an lp-hc event, the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. We find patterns suggesting that most firms exposed to the event began to increase their raw material inventories (RAW) over the longer term and increased their volume flexibility for a shorter period. Furthermore, we found that firms...
• Implications of vaccine shopping during pandemic AI翻译
  作者：Nageswaran, Leela
  作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
  摘要：Many individuals have strong preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccines and would like to choose the vaccine they get. This practice, known as vaccine shopping, presents unique challenges to timely vaccine rollout: On the one hand, people may not get vaccinated if they are unable to receive their preferred vaccine, and on the other hand, a policy maker is inclined to distribute vaccines in a brand agnostic fashion to avoid wastage. We study whether a policy maker should allow individuals to choos...
• Discrete-item inventory control involving unknown censored demand and convex inventory costs AI翻译
  作者：Yang, Jian; Shi, Jim (Junmin)
  作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; New Jersey Institute of Technology
  摘要：We study inventory control involving lost sales and hence censored demand. In a long-run average framework, the demand distribution is largely unknown. As long as the stationary inventory costs are strictly convex to the extent that the second lost item costs strictly more than the first one, the regret would be Omega(T-2/3). Our discrete-item setting has rendered the presence or absence of strong censoring indicators or equivalently, being knowledgeable or ignorant of one more demand request ...
• The influence of trauma on internal integration: An approach-avoidance analysis in disaster relief operations AI翻译
  作者：Brooks, Llord; Shaheen, Iana; Dobrzykowski, David
  作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
  摘要：Disaster relief workers face unique factors in their operating environments that can inhibit internal integration. For example, disaster relief often involves exposure to traumatic events affecting relief workers' commitment to cooperation and the organization. As such, disaster relief organizations dedicate substantial amounts of scarce resources to support workers exposed to trauma. Unfortunately, contradictory views exist in the literature on how trauma exposure affects commitment and integ...