Supply chain management (SCM) is about fulfilling demand. Based on given estimates of future demand, SCM invests the appropriate resources and then uses these resources to match supply to demand. The traditional SCM perspective takes demand as exogenous. The goal of SCM is then to serve the...

Problem definition: We examine and analyze a strategy for forecasting the demand for replacement devices in a large Wireless Service Provider (WSP) that is a Fortune 100 company. The Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) refurbishes returned devices that are offered as replacement devices by the...

We extend the results of Feng and Hendrikse (2012) by investigating the relationship between cognition and incentives in cooperatives versus investor-owned firms (IOFs) in a multi-tasking principal-agent model. The principal chooses the incentive intensity as well as the precision of monitoring,...

This paper investigates why agricultural cooperatives exhibit different principles for the allocation of decision rights between the Board of Directors and the Management. A mass-action interpretation of the Nash equilibrium in an investment proposal game shows that, on the one hand, board...

An agent-based model is developed to address the relationship between the ownership structure of an enterprise and the evolution of its product portfolio. The coherence and evolution of a product portfolio is operationalized by transition rules regarding the Moore environment. The distinguishing...

The authors employ and compare recently developed meta-analysis methods to better correct for misspecification, aggregation, publication, and selection bias, which frequently plague meta-analyses and are often misunderstood. They apply these methods in a new meta-analysis of advertising...

Given the continuing e-commerce boom, home delivery services are becoming increasingly important. From a logistics perspective, attended home deliveries, which require the customer to be present when the purchased goods are delivered, are particularly challenging. To facilitate the delivery, the...

Public regulators frequently come across organizational conduct which they consider harmful, even though this conduct is not forbidden by regulations. Remarkably, almost all regulators examined in this dissertation undertake ‘interventions beyond the law’ – supervisory interventions not...

Despite the continued growth of e-grocery sales, few companies actually make any profits in this retail segment. Increasing market shares and associated drop densities may render profitable operations possible, but higher delivery fees seem essential to achieving profitability. Yet such higher...

This is the specification for the Power Trading Agent Competition for 2020 (Power TAC 2020). Power TAC is a competitive simulation that models a “liberalized” retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or “brokers” offer energy services to customers through tariff...