Management science : a journal of the institute for operations research and the management sciences, Vol. 57 N° 10. Management science: a Journal of the institute for operations research and the management sciences - Octobre 2011
| Titre : | Management science : a journal of the institute for operations research and the management sciences, Vol. 57 N° 10. Management science: a Journal of the institute for operations research and the management sciences - Octobre 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 16/01/2012 |
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Jordi Blanes I Vidal, Auteur ;
Mareike Nossol, Auteur
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We use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effect of giving workers feedback on their relative performance. The setting is a firm in which workers are paid piece rates and where, for exogenous reasons, management begins to reveal t[...]
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Robert Swinney, Auteur
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We address the value of quick response production practices when selling to a forward-looking consumer population with uncertain, heterogeneous valuations for a product. Consumers have the option of purchasing the product early, before its value[...]
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Brown, David B., Auteur ;
James E. Smith, Auteur
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We consider the problem of dynamic portfolio optimization in a discrete-time, finite-horizon setting. Our general model considers risk aversion, portfolio constraints (e.g., no short positions), return predictability, and transaction costs. This[...]
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Onur Boyabatlı, Auteur ;
Paul R. Kleindorfer, Auteur ;
Stephen R. Koontz, Auteur
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This paper analyzes the optimal procurement, processing, and production decisions of a meat-processing company (hereafter, a “packer”) in a beef supply chain. The packer processes fed cattle to produce two beef products, program (premium) boxed [...]
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Bing Jing, Auteur
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When learning of product characteristics takes some time, a firm introducing a new durable faces the trade-off between releasing early to an uninformed market and deferring release to a better-informed market. In a two-period monopoly, we examin[...]
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Wenjing Shen, Auteur ;
Izak Duenyas, Auteur ;
Roman Kapuscinski, Auteur
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Two recent papers on managing new product diffusion decisions under production constraints reach somewhat contradictory conclusions. Ho et al. (Ho, T.-H., S. Savin, C. Terwiesch. 2002. Managing demand and sales dynamics in new product diffusion [...]
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Teck-Hua Ho, Auteur ;
Sergei Savin, Auteur ;
Christian Terwiesch, Auteur
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In our prior work on product diffusions in presence of a capacity constraint, we postulated that a firm operating in such an environment should always attempt to fulfill as much of the present demand as is possible with the capacity constraint. [...]
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Thomas Hellmann, Auteur ;
Enrico Perotti, Auteur
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This paper models the generation, circulation, and completion of new ideas, showing how markets and innovative firms complement each other in a symbiotic relationship. Novel ideas are initially incomplete and require further insight before yield[...]
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Mirko Kremer, Auteur ;
Brent Moritz, Auteur ;
Enno Siemsen, Auteur
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We analyze how individuals make forecasts based on time-series data. Using a controlled laboratory experiment, we find that forecasting behavior systematically deviates from normative predictions: Forecasters overreact to forecast errors in rela[...]
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Ashish Arora, Auteur ;
Anand Nandkumar, Auteur
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performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by the same underlying process. High-opportunity-cost entrepreneurs prefer a shorter time to success, even if this also implies failing more quickly, whereas entrep[...]
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Qiao Liu, Auteur ;
Kit Pong Wong, Auteur
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This paper develops a real options model to understand two distinct roles played by intellectual capital in corporate financing decisions. Whereas limiting a firm's debt capacity because of its low liquidation value, intellectual capital enhance[...]
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Mohammed Abdellaoui, Auteur ;
Olivier L'Haridon, Auteur ;
Corina Paraschiv, Auteur
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This paper reports on the results of an experimental elicitation at the individual level of all prospect theory components (i.e., utility, loss aversion, and weighting functions) in two decision contexts: situations where alternatives are descri[...]
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