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New product development flexibility in a competitive environment

Kettunen, Janne; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Degraeve, Zeger; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 3, pp. 892-904

Managerial flexibility can have a significant impact on the value of new product development projects. We investigate how the market environment in which a firm operates influences the value and use of development flexibility. We characterize the market environment according to two dimensions,...

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Matching product architecture with supply chain design

Nepal, Bimal; Monplaisir, Leslie; Famuyiwa, Oluwafemi - In: European Journal of Operational Research 216 (2012) 2, pp. 312-325

Product architecture is typically established in the early stages of the product development (PD) cycle. Depending on the type of architecture selected, product design, manufacturing processes, and ultimately supply chain configuration are all significantly affected. Therefore, it is important...

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An effective approach for scheduling coupled activities in development projects

Lin, Jun; Qian, Yanjun; Cui, Wentian; Goh, Thong Ngee - In: European Journal of Operational Research 243 (2015) 1, pp. 97-108

One of the greatest challenges in managing product development projects is identifying an appropriate sequence of many coupled activities. The current study presents an effective approach for determining the activity sequence with minimum total feedback time in a design structure matrix (DSM)....

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Environmental implications for online retailing

Carrillo, Janice E.; Vakharia, Asoo J.; Wang, Ruoxuan - In: European Journal of Operational Research 239 (2014) 3, pp. 744-755

Recent press has highlighted the environmental benefits associated with online shopping, such as emissions savings from individual drivers, economies of scale in package delivery, and decreased inventories. We formulate a dual channel model for a retailer who has access to both online and...

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More than a second channel? Supply chain strategies in B2B spot markets

Xing, Wei; Liu, Liming; Wang, Shouyang - In: European Journal of Operational Research 239 (2014) 3, pp. 699-710

this changing environment. In this paper, we study the channel-choice, pricing and ordering/production decisions of the …-choice and pricing strategy. When the supplier adopts a dual-channel strategy, the equilibrium contract price decreases in the …

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Welfare implications of piracy with dynamic pricing and heterogeneous consumers

Waters, James - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 904-911

We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity … for them to pirate. The dynamic pricing problem faced by a legal seller is solved using a flexible numerical procedure … with demand discretisation and sales tracking. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price …

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Channel and pricing decisions in a supply chain with advance selling of gift cards

Khouja, Moutaz; Zhou, Jing - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 2, pp. 471-489

Many service providers, such as restaurants, are selling their gift cards through independent retailers. We analyze a supply chain of a service provider who sells products and gift cards at face value at its locations. The service provider also sells its gift cards through a retailer. Consumers...

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Optimal order lot sizing and pricing with free shipping

Hua, Guowei; Wang, Shouyang; Cheng, T.C.E. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 218 (2012) 2, pp. 435-441

transportation cost on the retailer’s optimal lot sizing and pricing decisions. We find that free shipping can benefit the supplier …

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Two-stage pricing for custom-made products

Haruvy, Ernan E.; Li, Tao; Sethi, Suresh P. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 2, pp. 405-414

A commonly observed two-stage pricing strategy for a custom-made product involves a pre-purchase entry fee for a …

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Periodicity of pricing and marketing efforts in a distribution channel

Karray, Salma - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 3, pp. 635-647

retailers decide of pricing and marketing efforts simultaneously. This paper evaluates this central assumption and investigates … the optimal periodicity (sequence of move) of pricing and marketing efforts (ME) decisions for a distribution channel. We … develop a game theoretic model that accounts for pricing at each level of the channel, for the manufacturer’s ME mix …

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