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With more customers purchasing pre-owned or used products in the apparel industry, firms are increasingly adopting resale based business models generally through either a:(i) trade-in with a resale program, where a firm offers a trade-in discount on a new product and resells the traded-in...
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A group purchasing organization (GPO) aggregates healthcare providers' demands to negotiate better deals on their behalf with medicine manufacturers, which is believed to be helpful in reducing procurement cost. However, this belief has typically been based on a one-time procurement context...
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The viability and success of ride hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, depend on how they manage their demand and pool of available drivers. In this paper, we examine how ride hailing platforms can meet demand with supply in a competitive setting where the number of available drivers depends on...
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Public cloud capacity providers offer various pricing models namely, on-demand capacity instances, reserved capacity instances, and a hybrid of these two pricing models. The buyer firms seeking cloud solutions not only source their requirements from the public cloud providers but also invest in...
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Recently, the disruptive impact of blockchain technology on the digital advertising industry has caught widespread attention. However, advertisers are uncertain of whether to adopt the blockchain, and it is unclear how publishers would allocate their spots facing this new technology. Although...
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Selling conspicuous products online is challenging for both brands (brands) and third- party e-commerce platforms (platforms). For brands, the trade-off between offering online discount and maintaining high-end brand image gives no easy answer, which leads to wide application of Minimum...
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