Innovation contest platforms are often organized around specific fields of interest and involve contests that span a variety of interdependent problem domains. While specialization in contests within a problem domain can improve a contestant's performance in a future contest in the same domain,...

With supply chains now extending into developing countries, time and again, working conditions in supplier factories have been found to be unsafe. In this study, we focus on factories in the Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) industry that supply North American and European retailers. These...

This paper studies the role of visiting delay in crowdsourcing contests – the time elapsed between the start of a contest and a solver’s first visit to the contest. Because crowdsourcing platforms often host multiple contests parallelly, solvers may not be aware of contests when they open...

Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among end-clients. In developing countries, significant resource constraints hamper the effective and efficient delivery of health commodities, leading to supply chain failures such as “stock-outs.”...

Global shocks bring unanticipated changes in the business environment of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) and rival domestic firms. We examine whether there is a difference between how MNEs and domestic firms react in heterogeneous local or subnational markets to a global demand shock....