• Why Do Stores Drive Online Sales? Evidence of Underlying Mechanisms from a Multichannel Retailer 

  Kumar, A.; Mehra, Amit; Kumar, S. (Institute for Operations Research.and the Management Sciences, 2019-03-05)

  We utilize the event of store opening by a large apparel retailer and use customerlevel data to estimate the effect of store presence on the online purchase behavior of its existing customers. We find that the retailer's ...

• Relationship-Specific Investment and Hold-Up Problems in Supply Chains: Theory and Experiments 

  Haruvy, Ernan; Katok, Elena; Ma, Zhongwen; Sethi, Suresh (Springer, 2018-07-20)

  Supply chains today routinely use third parties for many strategic activities, such as manufacturing, R&D, or software development. These activities often include relationship-specific investment on the part of the vendor, ...

• Aspirations and Corporate Lobbying in the Product Market 

  Eun, Jihyun; Lee, Seung-Hyun (Sage Publications Ltd, 2019-04-26)

  Given corporate lobbying’s double-edged nature, previous research has been interested in what motivates firms to engage in lobbying. In this study, we build on previous works to analyze how two types of aspiration, historical ...

• Follow the Money: Investor Trading around Investor-Paid Credit Rating Changes 

  Bhattacharya, U.; Wei, Kelsey D.; Xia, Han

  Using institutional equity trading data, we find that a set of small institutional investors consistently follow credit ratings issued by an investor-paid rating agency in their trading decisions. Although rating information ...

• Job Analysis Ratings and Criterion-Related Validity: Are They Related and Can Validity Be Used as a Measure of Accuracy? 

  Weekley, Jeff A.; Labrador, J. R.; Campion, M. A.; Frye, K. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2019-04-29)

  Job analysis data are largely judgements from subject matter experts (SMEs), judgements with unknown accuracy. To date, accuracy has been inferred largely based on inter-rater reliability or agreement between SMEs and ...

• Bending the Rules or Changing Them? MNE Responses to Institutional Challenges in Transition Economies 

  Yu, J.; Lee, Seung-Hyun (Sage Publications Ltd, 2019-04-16)

  We investigate what determines a multinational enterprise’s (MNE) propensity to engage in lobbying and bribing in host countries where the overall institutional development for market exchanges is insufficient, and thus, ...

• Gender Diversity in Senior Management, Strategic Change, and Firm Performance: Examining the Mediating Nature of Strategic Change in High Tech Firms 

  Triana, M. D. C.; Richard, Orlando C.; Su, W. (Elsevier B.V., 2019-04-26)

  Only recently have enough women joined senior leadership positions in high tech firms for research on senior management gender diversity in high tech industries to be possible. We propose that senior management gender ...

• Technical Note - an Expectation-Maximization Algorithm to Estimate the Parameters of the Markov Chain Choice Model 

  Şimşek, A. Serdar; Topaloglu, H.

  We develop an expectation-maximization algorithm to estimate the parameters of the Markov chain choice model. In this choice model, a customer arrives into the system to purchase a certain product. If this product is ...

• When Everyone Works Harder for Fewer Rewards, Is it Fair? Implications of “Organization-Wide Hardship” for Managing and Studying Organizational Fairness 

  Levi, A.; Shapiro, D. L.; Fried, Y.; Markoczy, Livia; Noghani, F.

  As organizations compete in an increasingly global and challenging environment, “working” often requires working harder for fewer rewards. In this article, we introduce the concept of “organization-wide hardship,” which ...

• Adaptive CU Mode Selection in HEVC Intra Prediction: A Deep Learning Approach 

  Kuanar, S.; Rao, K. R.; Bilas, Monalisa; Bredow, J.

  The computational time of HEVC encoder is increased mainly because of the hierarchical quad-tree-based structure, recursive coding units, and the exhaustive prediction search up to 35 modes. These advances improve the ...

• The Performance Measurement Trap 

  Kuksov, Dmitri; Villas-Boas, J. M.

  This paper investigates the effect of performance measurement on the optimal effort allocation by salespeople when firms are concerned about retention of salespeople with higher abilities. It shows that introducing a ...

• Online Piracy and the 'Longer Arm' of Enforcement 

  Dey, D.; Kim, A.; Lahiri, Atanu

  Controlling digital piracy has remained a top priority for manufacturers of information goods, as well as for many governments around the world. Among the many forms taken by digital piracy, we focus on an increasingly ...

• A Project-Level Analysis of Value Creation in Firms 

  Cohn, J. B.; Gurun, Umit G.; Moussawi, R.

  This paper analyzes value creation in firms at the project level. We present evidence that managers facing short-termist incentives set a lower threshold for accepting projects. Using novel data on new client and product ...

• Operational Role of Retail Bundling and its Implications in a Supply Chain 

  Cao, Q.; Geng, X.; Stecke, Kathryn E.; Zhang, J.

  We study the impacts of retail bundling on a supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. The retailer orders a primary product from the manufacturer before demand uncertainty materializes, and can retail it in a bundle ...

• A Mean-Variance Approach to Capital Investment Optimization 

  Bensoussan, Alain; Hoe, S.; Yan, Z.

  We develop an improved model of capital investment under uncertainty that incorporates the variance of the capital stock in the payoff functional to manage risk. Our model results in a mean field type control problem that ...

• Towards Near Optimal Wifi Offloading With Uncertain Contact Duration 

  Dong, C.; Li, Z.; Qu, Y.; Wu, Q.; Tang, Shaojie; Qin, Z.

  Due to the simplicity of implementation, user initiated WiFi offloading becomes more and more popular, and naturally the benefits of users become the main optimization goal. We notice the inter-contact and intra-contact ...

• Organizational Intellectual Capital and its Relation to Frontline Service Employee Innovative Behavior: Consumer Value Co-Creation Behavior as a Moderator 

  Chou, C. Y.; Huang, C. H.; Lin, Tzu-An

  Frontline service employee innovative behavior is “the moment of truth” that significantly affects organizational performance. Yet, little research has investigated the effect of organizational intellectual capital on ...

• Spillovers from Good-News and Other Bankruptcies: Real Effects and Price Responses 

  Baranchuk, Nina; Rebello, Michael J.

  We model debt restructurings that could endogenously end in bankruptcy, and study spillovers to competitors’ operating decisions, profits, restructuring outcomes and security prices. We show that while bankruptcy could ...

• Optimal Procurement Auctions under Multistage Supplier Qualification 

  Chen, W.; Dawande, Milind W.; Janakiraman, Ganesh

  We consider a firm that solicits bids from a fixed-sized pool of yet-to-be qualified suppliers for an indivisible contract. The contract can only be awarded to a supplier who passes a multistage qualification process. For ...

• On Designing Distributed Auction Mechanisms for Wireless Spectrum Allocation 

  Yang, S.; Peng, D.; Meng, T.; Wu, F.; Chen, G.; Tang, Shaojie; Li, Z.; Luo, T. T.

  Auctions are believed to be effective methods to solve the problem of wireless spectrum allocation. Existing spectrum auction mechanisms are all centralized and suffer from several critical drawbacks of the centralized ...

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