Retailers that offer perishable items are required to make ordering decisions for hundreds of products on a daily basis. This task is non-trivial because the risk of ordering too much or too little is associated with overstocking costs and unsatisfied customers. The well-known newsvendor model...

Most retailers that sell perishable goods offer multiple products in a product category (e.g., fresh food or fashion). Managing the inventories of these products is especially challenging due to frequent stock-outs and resulting substitution effects within the category. Furthermore, the true...

Financial disclosures such as earnings calls help investors allocate their resources efficiently by providing them with essential information about the underlying assets. Especially in forward-looking statements, such disclosures may contain large shares of uncertain words, for example, "we...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review the characteristics of systems that combine P2P technology with explicit ontologies and assess the benefits of these technologies for inter‐organizational knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – We characterize existing...