This paper analyzes the network structure and R&D activities of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Suzhou municipality, known previously for its local state-directed Sunan model of development. Suzhou, however, has been undergoing dramatic restructuring to remake...

Network design problems, such as flexibility design, are ubiquitous in modern marketplaces where firms constantly innovate new ways to match supply and demand. We develop a primal-dual based approach to analyze the flexibility design problem, i.e., allocating subsets of limited resources to each...

This article studies location decisions and network configurations of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Built on the perspective that China's economic transition can be conceptualized as a...

We study the behavior of strategic customers in an open-routing service network with multiple stations. When a customer enters the network, she is free to choose the sequence of stations that she visits, with the objective of minimizing her expected total system time. We propose a two-station...

Problem definition: We investigate the implications of procedurally rational customers on service networks where customers visit multiple stations but can choose the order in which to visit the stations. Self-interested customers populate various service systems, and these customers may not be...

We offer a new network perspective on one of the central topics in Operations Management -- the bullwhip effect (BWE). The topic has both practical and scholarly implications. We start with an observation: the variability of orders placed to suppliers is larger than the variability of sales to...