We examine how the government and the market affect firm's pollution abatement efforts, i.e. firm's efforts to reduce its pollution emission. The way for the government to control firm's pollution is to impose penalty, whereas the consumers (the market) make their purchasing decision by taking...

We examine how the government and the market affect firm's pollution abatement efforts, i.e. firm's efforts to reduce its pollution emission. The way for the government to control firm's pollution is to impose penalty, whereas the consumers (the market) make their purchasing decision by taking...

We define sustainability from a value chain perspective, which we term ‘value system sustainability.' Value system sustainability emphasizes firm's effort to make decisions in a way to be sustainable not just from the firm's own perspective, but from the perspectives of the entire value chain...

We explore whether and how the overconfidence of Chief Operating Officer (COO) affects the firm's operational performance, in particular, the leanness of inventory. As overconfident managers tend to overestimate their firms' operational capabilities, we hypothesize that an overconfident COO sets...

We define social strategy as the strategic decision making to improve social conditions or to facilitate social changes in a desirable direction by dealing with critical issues and/or solving fundamental problems in the society. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables the decision...

In order to enhance R&D performance, R&D managers make sure that R&D personnel are satisfied with their compensation, both economic and non-economic. An R&D compensation scheme would consist of many complex factors. In this research, we focus on "compensation composition" as such a factor for...

We define value chain sustainability as the firm’s sustainability, perceived by the managers in the context of its supply chain or value chain. Consistent with the literature, we put forth that it is a latent concept consisting of three dimensions, i.e., stakeholder economics (economic),...

We conducted an exploratory study to examine whether teachincan significantly impact the managers’ way of thinking and, thus, their decision-making in operations management. To prove the proposition, we looked at whether learning operations management in the same class makes the students’...