Purpose: The paper aims to explore how power and gender influence decision making in an operational and risky context. Design/methodology/approach: The authors run a laboratory experiment. The experimental factors are power and operational profitability. Power is manipulated using an episodic...

When final customer demand exceeds available supply, retailers often hedge against shortages by inflating orders to their suppliers. While this amplification in orders is clearly described in the literature, there is little experimental research quantifying the factors influencing these...

Charities face tension when deciding whether or not to offer earmarking to donors — i.e., let donors restrict donations to a specific purpose. Research shows that earmarking decreases operational performance because it limits charities’ flexibility to use donations. However, there is also a...

Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management -- Healthcare Operations Management -- Sustainable Operations -- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Operations -- Product Innovation and Technology in Operations Management -- Marketing and Operations Management -- Service Operations and...

Problem definition: As the largest retail channel in the world, nanostores are the source of income for millions of shopkeepers in developing countries. Nanostore shopkeepers order products with different margins from multiple suppliers that visit them at different frequencies. Being...