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作者：Gao, Yuetao; Johnson, Norman; Shen, Bo; Tan, Yinliang (Ricky)
作者单位：Xiamen University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Wuhan University; Wuhan University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：A downstream manufacturer can procure high-quality inputs from its upstream raw material supplier to produce finished products with high quality. The manufacturer may also have the option to source alternative cheaper low-quality inputs to partially replace the inputs from its supplier to produce finished products of lower quality. That is, the manufacturer can use a mixture of the supplier's inputs and alternative ones in product design such that product quality depends on the proportion of e...
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作者：Bolton, Gary E. E.; Bonzelet, Sabrina; Stangl, Tobias; Thonemann, Ulrich W. W.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Cologne
摘要：This study examines human ordering behavior in service-level inventory contracts, a class of contracts important in practice. Studies of wholesale price contracts find that people tend to place orders that are suboptimal and biased toward mean demand. Unlike wholesale price contracts, service-level contracts can be parameterized such that they have steep expected profit functions, making the expected profit-maximizing order more salient, in the sense that deviations from optimal ordering are m...
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作者：Loots, Thomas; den Boer, Arnoud V.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam
摘要：We consider dynamic pricing and demand learning in a duopoly with multinomial logit demand, both from the perspective where firms compete against each other and from the perspective where firms aim to collude to increase revenues. We show that joint-revenue maximization is not always beneficial to both firms compared to the Nash equilibrium, and show that several other axiomatic notions of collusion can be constructed that are always beneficial to both firms and a threat to consumer welfare. N...
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作者：Kang, Kang; Doroudi, Sherwin; Delasay, Mohammad; Wickeham, Alexander
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We propose a new modeling framework for evaluating the risk of disease transmission during a pandemic in small-scale settings driven by stochasticity in the arrival and service processes, that is, congestion-prone confined-space service facilities. We propose a novel metric, system-specific basic reproduction rate, inspired by the basic reproduction rate concept from epidemiology, which measures the transmissibility of infectious diseases. We derive our metric for various queueing models of se...
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作者：Arifoglu, Kenan; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of London; University College London
摘要：Theoretical research in marketing has traditionally focused on centralized brand-extension strategies where a brand expands its product offerings by controlling the design, production, marketing, and sales of new products in-house. However, luxury brands frequently use brand licensing as a decentralized brand-extension strategy under which a brand licenses its brand name to an external licensee that designs, produces, and sells the new product. Licensing is a time-efficient and cost-effective ...
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作者：Dawande, Milind; Mehta, Sameer; Mu, Liying
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Delaware
摘要：The promise of consumer data along with advances in information technology has spurred innovation not only in the way firms conduct their business operations but also in the manner in which data are collected. A prominent institutional structure that has recently emerged is a data cooperative-an organization that collects data from its members, and processes and monetizes the pooled data. A characteristic of consumer data is the externality it generates: Data shared by an individual reveal inf...
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作者：Stumpf, Jonas; Besiou, Maria; Wakolbinger, Tina
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：Supply chains are dynamic and complex systems. This holds particularly true for humanitarian supply chains that operate under strong uncertainty. In view of an ever-growing gap of unmet humanitarian needs, it is essential to gain a better understanding of the behavior of humanitarian supply chain systems. Despite a growing academic output in this field, there is a lack of empirical studies that take an integrated view on humanitarian supply chains and support decision makers with fact-based ev...
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作者：Chen, Yonghui; Xu, Ailing; He, Qiao-Chu; Chen, Ying-Ju
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Southern University of Science & Technology
摘要：Motivated by the emerging mixed autonomous paradigm in cobotic order picking operations, we investigate the optimal information design to navigate human workers (HWs) who cooperate with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) within an intralogistics system. We incorporate asymmetric information between AMRs and HWs in a routing game where connected AMRs are informed of the congestion state while HWs rely on information provided by the system. The system designs a communication policy aiming to naviga...
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作者：Choi, Thomas Y.; Netland, Torbjorn H.; Sanders, Nada; Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Wagner, Stephan M.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Northeastern University; City St Georges, University of London; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：The Covid-19 pandemic and other recent disruptions in the early 2020s led to sections in the business press blaming just-in-time (JIT) practices for operational failings. Consequently, there are calls for moving away from JIT toward holding more inventory as preparation against future disruptions, which is referred to as just-in-case. The academic community is also divided. Some scholars argue that JIT is not resilient, while others maintain that JIT can continue providing superior performance...
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作者：Babashov, Vusal; Saure, Antoine; Ozturk, Onur; Patrick, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：In current clinical practice, priority-specific wait time targets are usually determined based on the consensus of medical specialists and health care administrators. The rationale behind this approach considers clinical urgency but it does not consider the efficient use of clinical resources and the patient volume associated with each priority class. The approach we present here aims to determine wait time targets in a systematic fashion that both respects clinically acceptable maximum recomm...
