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作者：Bo, Lijun; Li, Meng; Zhang, Tingting
作者单位：Xidian University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Soochow University - China
摘要：Product evaluation is an essential business process, and digital innovation has made it possible for companies to immediately process available information. We develop a model where a company continuously assesses information that follows a doubly stochastic Poisson process with a mean-reverting and stochastic intensity. Accordingly, the company faces a two-dimensional optimal stopping problem in which the company continues to evaluate the product if and only if the product reputation and info...
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作者：Wang, Nianxin; Yang, Yuxue; Fang, Yulin; Li, Huifang; Lu, Angela
作者单位：Jiangsu University of Science & Technology; University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Jiangsu University of Science & Technology
摘要：Sharing economy platforms are pressed to rapidly grow user bases at the early stage by aggressively targeting potential users through competitive actions. Due to the volatile nature of the sharing economy and its disruption to industry norms, these platforms encounter legitimacy challenges that impede user base growth. This paper integrates competitive repertoire and institutional legitimacy theories to develop a research model that explains early-stage user base development in the sharing eco...
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作者：Zhai, Chengcheng; Bretthauer, Kurt; Mejia, Jorge; Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：In 2021, access to clean drinking water was still a luxury for millions of people worldwide. Building new water projects, such as handpumps and small piped systems, is the primary operational response by many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to bring people their first access to clean water in rural areas of developing countries. Based on knowledge gained from our collaboration with a local NGO and an international NGO and field research in Ethiopia, our research studies where to build new...
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作者：Logothetis, Dimitrios; Economou, Antonis
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：Nowadays, a transportation station has the possibility to provide its potential passengers with information regarding the arrival times of the successively arriving facilities, the congestion in the station and the space availability of future facilities. Such information influences the behavior of the passengers who think strategically and consequently the throughput and the welfare that are generated by the system. In the present work, we consider a general model of a transportation station ...
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作者：Shi, Siyu; Wang, Chenyu; Cheng, T. C. Edwin; Liu, Shuai
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：Traditionally, manufacturer encroachment is investigated under an integrated organizational structure where online business decisions are made at the whole firm level. However, with the establishment of a specific e-commerce division, the manufacturer has the flexibility to delegate the decision-making of the online business to its e-commerce division to maximize the online revenue under a decentralized structure. We study manufacturer encroachment in a supply chain, where a manufacturer sells...
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作者：Lee, Jeongsik Jay; Jung, Hyun Ju; Park, Hyunwoo
作者单位：Drexel University; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：What makes a technology valuable? Characterizing the value as the degree of impact on subsequent technology development and focusing on the rareness as a composite measure of novelty and conventionality representing the relative position of a technology in a technology space, we advance a theory on the relationship between the rareness and value of a technology as well as the moderating role of search basis in shaping the relationship. We build our theory exploiting the fundamental trade-off b...
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作者：Zhang, Xingyue (Luna); Cui, Ruomeng; Yao, Oliver
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Tacoma; Emory University; Lehigh University
摘要：Different versions of mobile operating systems or shopping apps enable different functionalities and information flows, thus creating various mobile shopping environments. In general, up-to-date versions provide better information flows and richer functionalities. However, mobile operating systems and shopping apps affect consumer behavior through different mechanisms. An up-to-date mobile operating system reduces the system response time, while an up-to-date shopping app improves algorithms f...
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作者：Gijsbrechts, Joren; Imdahl, Christina; Boute, Robert N.; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Eindhoven University of Technology; Vlerick Business School; KU Leuven; Northwestern University
摘要：We study inventory control with volume flexibility: A firm can replenish using period-dependent base capacity at regular sourcing costs and access additional supply at a premium. The optimal replenishment policy is characterized by two period-dependent base-stock levels but determining their values is not trivial, especially for nonstationary and correlated demand. We propose the Lookahead Peak-Shaving policy that anticipates and peak shaves orders from future peak-demand periods to the curren...
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作者：Diao, Wen; Jiang, Baojun; Tian, Lin
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Washington University (WUSTL); Fudan University; Fudan University
摘要：Over the past decade, the surge of peer-to-peer (P2P) ride-sharing has significantly cut the market share and profitability for taxis, but taxis remain a major service provider in the personal transportation service industry. This paper analytically examines a market with two segments of consumers based on their travel distances, where a P2P platform and a traditional taxi company have different inconvenience costs and compete for customers through pricing. Our analysis shows that consumers' i...
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作者：Bai, Jiaru; Heese, H. Sebastian; Tripathy, Manish
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University; North Carolina State University; University of British Columbia
摘要：Many on-demand service platforms employ surge pricing policies, charging higher prices and raising provider compensation when customer demand exceeds provider supply. There is increasing evidence that service providers understand these pricing policies and strategically collude to induce artificial supply shortages by reducing the number of providers showing as available online. We study a stylized mathematical model of a setting in which an on-demand service platform determines its pricing an...
