While product modularity is often advocated as a design strategy in the operations management literature, little is known about how customers respond to modular products. In this research we undertake several experiments to explore consumer response to modularly upgradeable products in settings...

Category captainship is a management practice where a retailer relies on one manufacturer in the category for recommendations regarding strategic category management decisions such as assortment planning. This research investigates the conditions under which category captainship practices are...

This research investigates the value of category captainship (a management practice in which a retailer relies on a manufacturer for recommendations regarding strategic category management decisions) in retail supply chains. We consider a setting where the scope of category management is limited...

This paper investigates the relationship between waiting time and subsequent purchase decisions. The prior literature assumes that purchase decisions are independent from the waiting time. In contrast, we find that when people spend a longer time waiting in a line, they tend to consume more. We...

Modularly upgradable product designs have been advocated to offer environmental and economic advantages; however, they are not commonly used in the consumer electronics industry. In this article, we investigate the economic and environmental benefits and challenges of modular upgradability for...

We investigate the economic and environmental implications of jointly implementing leasing and modularity, two prominent circular economy strategies, and their interaction. We develop a durable goods model to obtain insights for firms considering the use of these strategies. We first analyze the...

Motivated by the mixed evidence concerning the adoption level and value of collaborative forecasting (CF) implementations in retail supply chains, in this paper, we explore the conditions under which CF offers the highest potential. We consider a two-stage supply chain with a single supplier...

This paper explores the consequences of a recent trend in consumer goods retailing where a retailer partners with a leading manufacturer and relies on this manufacturer for strategic recommendations regarding category management. We consider a model where multiple differentiated products compete...

Motivated by the contrasting strategic choices made by two divisions of 7-Eleven regarding the risk ownership of excess inventory, our research aims to understand the drivers of the choice between consignment and retail ownership of inventory and to develop rules of thumb for determining what...

Modular upgradability has been suggested as a strategy for improving environmental performance: As technology improves, it allows for independent replacement of improving subsystems, instead of replacing the entire product. This may extend the useful life of the stable subsystems, reducing...