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Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis

DeHoratius, Nicole; Raman, Ananth - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 4, pp. 627-641

and retail stores. Examining nearly 370,000 inventory records from 37 stores of one retailer, we find 65% to be inaccurate …

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Contingent Effects of Quality Signaling: Evidence from the Indian Offshore IT Services Industry

Guodong (Gordon) Gao; Gopal, Anandasivam; Agarwal, Ritu - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 6, pp. 1012-1029

industry. Prior theory has argued that quality certification is important in markets characterized by information asymmetry … on capability maturity model (CMM) certification, which is granted on the basis of a rigorous audit of software vendor … strategy and economics, we theorize that the impacts of CMM certification on a vendor's export performance are conditional on …

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Arya, Anil; Mittendorf, Brian; Yoon, Dae-Hee - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 11, pp. 1850-1860

with these wholesale customers in the retail realm. Such dual distribution arrangements commonly suffer from excessive … encroachment in that the manufacturer's ex post retail aggression is harmful ex ante because it undercuts potential wholesale … encroach on its retail territory. This, in turn, permits the manufacturer to reap greater wholesale profits. We also note that …

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Exclusive Territories and Manufacturers' Collusion

Piccolo, Salvatore; Reisinger, Markus - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 7, pp. 1250-1266

This paper highlights the rationale for exclusive territories in a model of repeated interaction between competing supply chains. We show that with observable contracts exclusive territories have two countervailing effects on manufacturers' incentives to sustain tacit collusion. First, granting...

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Strategic Customer Behavior, Commitment, and Supply Chain Performance

Su, Xuanming; Zhang, Fuqiang - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 10, pp. 1759-1773

This paper studies the impact of strategic customer behavior on supply chain performance. We start with a newsvendor seller facing forward-looking customers. The seller initially charges a regular price but may salvage the leftover inventory at a lower salvage price after random demand is...

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Leadership and Competition in Network Supply Chains

Majumder, Pranab; Srinivasan, Ashok - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 6, pp. 1189-1204

This paper considers network supply chains with price dependent demand by modelling them as large acyclic networks. Such large networks are common in the automobile and apparel industries. We develop a model to analyze the effect of these large-scale problems involving long sequences of...

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Designing Supply Contracts: Contract Type and Information Asymmetry

Corbett, Charles J.; Zhou, Deming; Tang, Christopher S. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 4, pp. 550-559

This paper studies the value to a supplier of obtaining better information about a buyer's cost structure, and of being able to offer more general contracts. We use the bilateral monopoly setting to analyze six scenarios: three increasingly general contracts (wholesale-pricing schemes, two-part...

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Analysis and Optimization of a Multistage Inventory-Queue System

Liu, Liming; Liu, Xiaoming; Yao, David D. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 3, pp. 365-380

An important issue in the management of supply chains and manufacturing systems is to control inventory costs at different locations throughout the system while satisfying an end-customer service-level requirement. The challenge involved is to solve a nonlinear constrained optimization problem...

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Competition and Structure in Serial Supply Chains with Deterministic Demand

Corbett, Charles J.; Karmarkar, Uday S. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 7, pp. 966-978

Supply chains often consist of several tiers, with different numbers of firms competing at each tier. A major determinant of the structure of supply chains is the cost structure associated with the underlying manufacturing process. In this paper, we examine the impact of fixed and variable costs...

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Performance Measurement and Design in Supply Chains

Baiman, Stanley; Fischer, Paul E.; Rajan, Madhav V. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 173-188

This paper examines the relationship between product architecture, supply-chain performance metrics, and supply-chain efficiency. We model the contracting relationship between a supplier and a buyer. The supplier is privately informed about the outcome of his design/production investment. The...

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