We model a supply chain consisting of a production facility, a distribution center and two differentiated markets. Demand information is used to mitigate the effects of uncertainty in the output markets. We study the firm's operational performance under alternative business processes, comparing...

The burgeoning app economy increasingly drives growth in today's service sector. We study a dataset encompassing apps' daily, weekly, and monthly usership time series and show how its nested-echelon structure allows researchers to reliably infer how and when an app's customers adopt, use, and...