Supply chains continue to evolve with new configurations in response to the dynamic business environment. Supply chain disintermediation is viewed as a viable solution to reduce cost and improve efficiency, provided information asymmetry is reduced in credible ways. This paper employs a case...

The timeliness of blood supply in the aftermath of a catastrophic event is critical for saving lives. Using historical earthquakes data from Iran, this paper posits and numerically illustrates a fuzzy optimization model to minimize the overall blood supply duration from donation time to the time...

In this paper, I document that investor attention negatively predicts betting against beta returns. Using Google Search Volumes toward US market indices as my proxy to attention, I find that this relation holds after controlling for competitive factors and different search terminologies and in...