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A General Framework for the Study of Decentralized Distribution Systems

Anupindi, Ravi; Bassok, Yehuda; Zemel, Eitan - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3 (2001) 4, pp. 349-368

We develop a general framework for the analysis of decentralized distribution systems. We carry the analysis in terms of a simplified model which entails N retailers who face stochastic demands and hold stocks locally and/or at one or more central locations. An exogenously specified fraction of...

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Retail Assortment Planning Under Category Captainship

Mümin Kurtulu\c{s}; Nakkas, Alper - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13 (2011) 1, pp. 124-142

Retail assortment planning can have a tremendous impact on a retailer's bottom-line performance. Over the past years, retailers have increasingly relied on their leading manufacturers for recommendations regarding the assortment to be offered to the consumers in a particular category, a practice...

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The Impact of Quick Response in Inventory-Based Competition

Caro, Felipe; Martínez-de-Albéniz, Victor - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 3, pp. 409-429

competition. For this purpose, we consider two retailers that compete in terms of inventory: customers that face a stockout at … incremental knowledge about demand (if it is available). We visualize this problem as the competition between a traditional make … is larger when facing a slow response competitor, and interestingly, asymmetric competition can be desirable to both …

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Customer Service Competition in Capacitated Systems

Hall, Joseph; Porteus, Evan - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2 (2000) 2, pp. 144-165

-horizon problems are investigated and applied to two examples: (1) competition between Internet service providers who operate systems … that we approximate by simple loss-type queueing models, and (2) competition between make-to-stock producers who operate …

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Implementation of the Newsvendor Model with Clearance Pricing: How to (and How Not to) Estimate a Salvage Value

Cachon, Gérard P.; Kök, A. Gürhan - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9 (2007) 3, pp. 276-290

The newsvendor model is designed to decide how much of a product to order when the product is to be sold over a short selling season with stochastic demand and there are no additional opportunities to replenish inventory. There are many practical situations that reasonably conform to those...

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Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?

Cachon, Gérard P.; Feldman, Pnina - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13 (2011) 2, pp. 244-260

Should a firm charge on a per-use basis or sell subscriptions when its service experiences congestion? Queueing-based models of pricing primarily focus on charging a fee per use for the service, in part because per-use pricing enables the firm to regulate congestion--raising the per-use price...

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Strategically Seeking Service: How Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals

Lariviere, Martin A.; Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6 (2004) 1, pp. 23-40

We consider a simple game in which strategic agents select arrival times to a service facility. Agents find congestion costly and, hence, try to arrive when the system is underutilized. Working in discrete time, we characterize pure-strategy Nash equilibria for the case of ample service...

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Project Management Contracts with Delayed Payments

Kwon, H. Dharma; Lippman, Steven A.; McCardle, Kevin F.; … - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 4, pp. 692-707

When managing projects with considerable uncertainty, such as those arising in construction, defense, and new product development, it is customary for a manufacturer (project manager) to offer contracts under which each supplier (contractor) receives a prespecified payment when she completes her...

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Decentralization Cost in Scheduling: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Bukchin, Yossi; Hanany, Eran - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9 (2007) 3, pp. 263-275

Decentralized organizations may incur inefficiencies because of scheduling issues associated with competition among …

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Methodology now!

Heap, Shaun P. Hargreaves - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 7 (2001) 1, pp. 95-108

This paper reviews some of the key responses to Hahn's famous retiring remarks and argues that none has satisfactorily addressed Hahn's suggestion that a discipline does not need to consciously discuss its foundations as it can rely on an evolutionary process to select them. The paper presents a...

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