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Bootstrap planning: Theory and application

Chen, P.C. - 2008

We identify a general framework for weak planning called bootstrap planning, which is defined as global planning using only a local planner along with some memory for learning intermediate subgoals. We present a family of algorithms for bootstrap planning, and provide some initial theory on...

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Engineering’s Role in the Evolutionary Understanding of Complex Service Systems

Thomas, Jakita O.; Kieliszewski, Cheryl A. - 2008

In the United States, over 70% of the labor force is engaged in services, and an estimated 75% of the GDP in 2005 was derived from services. Industrialized countries around the world share similar statistics, while emerging economic powers, such as India and China, are seeing dramatic growth in...

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Innovative Catering – Ecological and Visionary Service Innovation

Heikkinen, Vesa (V.A.) Antero; Ahonen, Jouni; Karmavuo, … - 2010

Innovative Catering is a research, development and innovation project that involves HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences, Finnish hospitality industry and the industry‟s technology and appliance manufactures. The objective is to build an experiential restaurant concept. The aim of this...

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Measuring retail productivity: What really matters?

Dubelaar, Chris; Ferrarin, David; Bhargava, Mukesh - 2002

Retail productivity measurement has commonly used ratios of outputs, such as sales, and input factors like capital and labour to measure different facets of productivity. However, these store-specific ratios are also likely to be influenced by other context-specific factors affecting the...

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Market Dynamics in Supply Chains: The Impact of Globalisation and Consolidation on Food Companies' Mark-Ups

Kaditi, Eleni A. - 2011

This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect foodretailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chaindeviate from the pricing behaviour that exists under perfect competition. A methodproposed by Roeger (1995) is used to...

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Call for Prices: Strategic Implications of Raising Consumers' Costs

Desai, Preyas - 2010

Many consumer durable retailers often do not advertise their prices and instead ask consumers to call them for prices. It is easy to see that this practice increases the consumers' cost of learning the prices of products they are considering, yet firms commonly use such practices. Not...

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Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination

Kok, A. Gurhan - 2010

It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly...

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

W e develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...

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Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm

Lafontaine, Francine - 2007

We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain operating 2,525 similar retail outlets in 43 countries outside the...

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Internet retailing: Back to the Future

Francis, Julie E; White, Lesley - 2004

establishing Internet retailing as a distinct, credible and productive domain. Arguably, a critical step in advancing involves … in its own right are considered relative to the current state of Internet retailing. This highlights that just as …, definitions and classifications and that this may inhibit the advancement of Internet retailing knowledge by disguising conceptual …

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