During recent two decades the behavioral operations literature has proved with numerous studies that operational contracting allies the economic incentives with the behavioral aspects. Social considerations (such as fairness, trust and trustworthiness, reciprocity, and others) motivate the...

Over the past two decades, the field of behavioral operations has demonstrated that combining economic incentives with behavioral aspects results in successful operational contracting. Social considerations (such as fairness, trust and trustworthiness, reciprocity, and others) motivate the...

Digital extortion has emerged as a significant threat to organizations that rely on information technologies for their operations. Using human-subject experimentation, we study the effectiveness of message appeals in encouraging defenders to adopt two mitigation strategies, investment in...

Inventory management relies on the economic order quantity (EOQ) and newsvendor models. While the newsvendor model has received much attention in the field of behavioral operations management (BOM), the EOQ problem remains largely untouched. This study presents one of the first empirical...

Game theoretic analysis of a supplier-retailer system in a two-period newsvendor setting reveals that, on the part of the retailer, committing to disposal of inventory, that is to discard unsold inventory, rather than carryover to the next period, is preferred, under certain conditions, because...