• Scheduling in Production, Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Systems by Optimal Control: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art and Applications 

  Dolgui, Alexandre; Ivanov, Dmitry; Sethi, Suresh P.; Sokolov, Boris (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-02-08)

  This paper presents a survey on the applications of optimal control to scheduling in production, supply chain and Industry 4.0 systems with a focus on the deterministic maximum principle. The first objective is to derive ...

• Ethno-Racial Similarity, Relationship Conflict and Trust in Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads 

  Miller, Carliss D.; Richard, Orlando C.; Ford, David L., Jr. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-08)

  Purpose In management research, little is known about how ethno-racial minority leaders interact with similar employees in supervisor-subordinate relationships. This study aims to examine and provide a deeper understanding ...

• Social Connections Within Executive Teams and Management Forecasts 

  Ke, Ruihao; Li, Meng; Ling, Zhejia; Zhang, Yuan (INFORMS, 2018-03-12)

  We examine the role of teamwork within the top executive teams in generating management forecasts. Using social connections within the executive team to capture the team's interaction, cooperation, and teamwork, we find ...

• I Need to Be Your Only Friend: The Effect of Salesperson Network Centrality on Opportunistic Behavior 

  Kang, Diane; Ryu, Sungmin; Lee, Seung-Hyun (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019-03-26)

  Transaction cost economics can be used to detect opportunistic behavior by one or more actors within a sales network. Using a sample of firms in the medical industry, where the role of salespeople is important, this study ...

• Random Projection Estimation of Discrete-Choice Models with Large Choice Sets 

  Chiong, Khai Xiang; Shum, Matthew (Informs, 2018-04-06)

  We introduce random projection, an important dimension-reduction tool from machine learning, for the estimation of aggregate discrete-choice models with high-dimensional choice sets. Initially, high-dimensional data are ...

• Split-Award Auctions: Insights from Theory and Experiments 

  Chaturvedi, Aadhaar; Katok, Elena; Beil, Damian R. (INFORMS, 2018-03-28)

  We investigate procurement in a setting in which the buyer is bound by sourcing rules. Sourcing rules may limit the minimum and maximum amounts of business that can be awarded to a single supplier or dictate the minimum ...

• Sequential Capacity Expansion Options 

  Bensoussan, Alain; Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit (INFORMS, 2018-10-09)

  This paper considers a firm's capacity expansion decisions under uncertainty. The firm has leeway in timing investments and in choosing how much capacity to install at each investment time. We model this problem as the ...

• Top Management Team Surface-Level Diversity, Strategic Change, and Long-Term Firm Performance: A Mediated Model Investigation 

  Wu, J.; Richard, Orlando C.; Zhang, X.; Macaulay, C. (Sage Publications Inc., 2019-05-17)

  Top management team (TMT) heterogeneity research has not yet clearly revealed whether surface-level diversity (i.e., national culture, gender, age) contributes to or detracts from a firm’s financial performance and has not ...

• Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Business Models in China's Rural Markets 

  Zhang, Xinxiang; Hu, Lijun; Salimath, Manjula; Kuo, Ching-Chung (MDPI, 2018-12-26)

  In rural China, successful and sustainable business model design has been viewed as an important strategy to achieve a win-win scenario in which rural poverty can be alleviated and enterprise profit can be improved. Although ...

• Clawback Provision of SOX, Financial Misstatements, and CEO Compensation Contracts 

  Natarajan, Ramachandran; Zheng, Kenneth (Sage Publications Inc, 2017-01-23)

  Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (hereafter, SOX), commonly known as the clawback provision, entitles the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to sue the CEO and CFO in an attempt to recover their incentive ...

• Shaping the Values of a Milk Cooperative: Theoretical and Practical Considerations 

  Mu, L.; Dawande, Milind; Mookerjee, Vijay (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-05-22)

  Dairy cooperatives bestow upon farmers the virtues of controlling a large supply quantity of a relatively scarce product, that is, milk (e.g., higher bargaining power, fixed cost sharing, etc.). However, the cooperative ...

• Re-Switching, The Average Period of Production and the Austrian Business-Cycle Theory: A Comment on Fratini 

  Lewin, Peter; Cachanosky, N. (Springer New York LLC, 2019-05-26)

  In a recent contribution to this journal Saverio Fratini (Review of Austrian Economics, 2019) offers a critique of our work on Austrian Capital Theory on the grounds that our conception of capital and “roundaboutness” does ...

• Observing Cascade Behavior Depending on the Network Topology and Transaction Costs 

  Kim, Joohyun; Kwon, Ohsung; Lee, Duk Hee (Springer, 2019-01-31)

  The Internet, smartphones, Social Networking Service, and other IT goods have improved the overall quality of life, but created an over-connectedness with extremely low transaction costs in our society, amplifying latent ...

• Learning Through Observation or Through Acquisition? Innovation Performance as an Outcome of Internal and External Knowledge Combination 

  Jiang, M. S.; Jiao, J.; Lin, Z.; Xia, Jun (Springer New York LLC, 2019-06-08)

  Although the importance of external and internal knowledge combination for innovation is well recognized, the effectiveness of different patterns of combination requires further investigation. We consider spillovers of ...

• Strategic Remanufacturing under Competition 

  Ma, Zhongwen; Prasad, A.; Sethi, Suresh P. (De Gruyter, 2019-06-12)

  We investigate firms' remanufacturing strategies for the case of a duopoly. On the one hand, remanufactured products cannibalize sales of new products of the same firm thereby hurting its profits. On the other hand, they ...

• Sourcing Contract under Countervailing Incentives 

  Gan, X.; Feng, Q.; Sethi, Suresh P. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-05-25)

  We study a retailer’s sourcing contract when the supplier’s reservation profit (offered by his outside options) depends on his cost, which is privately known to only the supplier. An interesting discovery from our analysis ...

• Pricing Problems Under the Markov Chain Choice Model 

  Dong, James; Şimşek, A. Serdar; Topaloglu, Huseyin (Wiley, 2019-01)

  We consider pricing problems when customers choose under the Markov chain choice model. In this choice model, a customer arriving into the system is interested in a certain product with a certain probability. Depending on ...

• On Member-Driven, Efficient and Fair Timeshare Exchanges 

  Cesaret, Bahriye; Dawande, Milind W,; Rajapakshe, Tharanga (Wiley, 2018-06-07)

  Vacation Timeshare is a form of ownership or "right to use" of a resort property for a specific time period (typically a week) each year. Timeshare exchange refers to the non-monetary trading of timeshare weeks among owners, ...

• A Paradox in Time-Consistency in the Mean-Variance Problem? 

  Bensoussan, Alain; Wong, Kwok Chuen; Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip (Springer Heidelberg, 2018-12-19)

  We establish new conditions under which a constrained (no short-selling) time-consistent equilibrium strategy, starting at a certain time, will beat the unconstrained counterpart, as measured by the magnitude of their ...

• Joint Inventory-Pricing Optimization with General Demands: An Alternative Approach for Concavity Preservation 

  Bensoussan, Alain; Xie, Y.; Yan, H. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-05-23)

  In this study, we provide an alternative approach for proving the preservation of concavity together with submodularity, and apply it to finite-horizon non-stationary joint inventory-pricing models with general demands. ...

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