With more customers purchasing pre-owned or used products in the apparel industry, firms are increasingly adopting resale based business models generally through either a:(i) trade-in with a resale program, where a firm offers a trade-in discount on a new product and resells the traded-in...

Ending hunger, improving nutrition, and reducing food waste are important objectives for most countries and they are also part of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Hunger occurs in all locations around the globe, from developing to developed countries. In fact, there were...

A group purchasing organization (GPO) aggregates healthcare providers' demands to negotiate better deals on their behalf with medicine manufacturers, which is believed to be helpful in reducing procurement cost. However, this belief has typically been based on a one-time procurement context...

The widespread growth of e-commerce has resulted in the proliferation of online search infomediaries (OSIs), who provide consumers with information about products and services sold by different firms (Parents), while also referring interested consumers to the Parents' website. Very often, both...

The increasing complexity of consulting, research and development, and information technology projects has resulted in close collaboration between clients and vendors, who co-create value through co-design and co-production. In such co-creation environments, the output is contingent on the...

Recently, a growing number of online retailers have started meshing their pricing strategies with consumers' social networks. Specifically, they have started allowing consumers to invite peers from social media to request a discount for their purchases. We call this pricing strategy social...

Identification of competitive healthcare providers is an important issue for successful operation of a bundled payment reimbursement program. We develop a healthcare provider selection framework via data envelopment analysis (DEA) and combinatorial auction (CA). Our goal is to cover target...

The viability and success of ride hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, depend on how they manage their demand and pool of available drivers. In this paper, we examine how ride hailing platforms can meet demand with supply in a competitive setting where the number of available drivers depends on...

Online reviews and discussions play a significant role in influencing decisions made by users in day-to-day life. However, the presence of reviewers who deliberately post fake or deceptive reviews for financial or other gains negatively impacts both users and businesses. Unfortunately,...