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作者：Chen, Jialie
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：For many multiplayer games, including massively multiplayer online role-playing games, consumer skill sets with the game play an important role in engagement. Despite their importance, many aspects of consumers' skill sets are still less well understood. This research considers the formation and evolution of players' skill sets from two perspectives: (1) learning-by-doing, in which a consumer gradually improves his or her skill set with the game from past experiences with other players, and (2...
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作者：Cao, Bin; Chen, Xin; Edwin Cheng, T. C.; Zhong, Yuanguang; Zhou, Yong-Wu
作者单位：Jinan University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; South China University of Technology
摘要：This paper studies the operations and financial decisions of two capital-constrained firms via a limited joint liability (LJL) financing scheme offered by a bank with a menu of loan terms including interest rate and leverage ratio/credit line. To explicitly assess the value of LJL financing, we assume that the firms either use LJL financing scheme or traditional individual financing scheme to finance their operations. Under LJL financing scheme, we construct a non-cooperative game model in whi...
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作者：Wu, Yiwei; Wang, Shuaian; Zhen, Lu; Laporte, Gilbert; Tan, Zheyi; Wang, Kai
作者单位：Shanghai University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Bath; Tsinghua University
摘要：Ships operated by a liner company are scattered around the world to transport goods. A liner company needs to adjust its shipping network every few months by repositioning its ships to respond to uncertain container shipping demand. Few studies investigate a liner company's multiperiod heterogeneous fleet deployment problem under uncertainty, considering fleet repositioning, ship chartering, demand fulfillment, cargo allocation, and adaptive fleet sizes. To this end, this study formulates a mi...
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作者：Xu, Liang; Mani, Vidya; Zhao, Hui
作者单位：Singapore Management University; University of Virginia; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Singapore Management University
摘要：One of the most important trends in the pharmaceutical industry is the rapid growth of specialty drugs. Specialty drugs, mostly bio based, tend to be high risk, high priced, and more regulated than traditional drugs, resulting in unprecedented challenges in distribution. Such challenges lead to the emergence of specialty distributors (SDs), which, compared with traditional wholesalers (WSs), represent a more controlled channel and carry a smaller variety of drugs. Due to the risky nature of sp...
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作者：Veldman, Jasper; Anderson, Edward; Pulles, Niels J.; Gaalman, Gerard
作者单位：University of Groningen; University of Sydney; Imperial College London; University of Twente; University of Groningen
摘要：Firms who buy from suppliers often engage in supplier development to reduce the supplier's production cost. Being aware that their efforts may benefit a rival firm when there is a shared supplier, some buyers only invest in specific supplier development, that is, in those processes or technologies where spillover cannot occur. Other buyers willingly accept the spillover that arises from supplier development, and invest in generic supplier development. Our game-theoretic model captures a buyer'...
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作者：Hezarkhani, Behzad; Arisian, Sobhan; Mansouri, Afshin
作者单位：Solent University; University of Southampton; La Trobe University; Brunel University; University of Southampton; Solent University
摘要：The tariff rate quota (TRQ) is a widely utilized market access instrument in global agricultural trade that allows a predetermined quantity of a product to be imported at a lower tariff rate than the usual rate. This study examines the design and administration of TRQ systems from an operations management perspective and analyzes their impact on market access, fill rates, and revenue for policymakers. We investigate the two most common TRQ administration methods, namely, licensing and first-co...
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作者：Liu, Ju; Liu, Changchun; Teo, Chung Piaw
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：We develop a general framework for selecting a small pool of candidate solutions to maximize the chances that one will be optimal for a combinatorial optimization problem, under a linear and additive random payoff function. We formulate this problem using a two-stage distributionally robust model, with a mixed 0-1 semidefinite program. This approach allows us to exploit the diversification effect inherent in the problem to address how different candidate solutions can be selected to improve th...
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作者：Taiwo, Enayon Sunday; Savin, Sergei; Chen (Frank), Yuohua; Chin, Kwai-Sang
作者单位：University of Winnipeg; University of Pennsylvania; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：The aging population and increasing chronic disease load are rapidly changing the face of primary care delivery, with mid-level (e.g., nurse) practitioners providing growing proportion of patient care. Potential differences in the quality of care offered by physicians and nurse practitioners may affect patient preferences, thus leading to patient choice behavior. This paper focuses on the problem of appointment scheduling for physician-nurse teams in the presence of patient choice and no-shows...
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作者：Chen, Yiwei; Shi, Cong
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Miami
摘要：We consider a general class of price-based network revenue management problems that a firm aims to maximize revenue from multiple products produced with multiple types of resources endowed with limited inventory over a finite selling season. A salient feature of our problem is that the firm does not know the underlying demand function that maps prices to demand rate, which must be learned from sales data. It is well known that for almost all classes of demand functions, such as linear, exponen...
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作者：Gao, Yuetao; Liu, Shaoxuan; Shen, Bo; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：Xiamen University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Wuhan University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Wuhan University
摘要：The proliferation of social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok has greatly facilitated social interactions among individuals, and thus their product consumption has become more visible to their peers. This enhanced visibility influences consumers' purchase decisions of luxury products because it affects social value derived from conspicuous consumption of these products. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to study the impact of such social technologie...
