We investigate the impact of workplace sexual harassment on firm value by estimating the incidence of sexual harassment (SH) through textual analysis of online job reviews. During 2011-2017, the value-weighted portfolio of firms in the top quantiles (top 1% to 5%) of the SH score earned a...

"This book constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Chinese agricultural production organizations from the perspective of promoting farmers' realization of "substantial freedom" and "feasible ability". The new theoretical framework deepens and expands the theory of...

In today’s retail business many companies have a complex distribution network with several national and regional distribution centers. This article studies an integrated facility location and inventory allocation problem for designing a distribution network with multiple distribution centers...

Black, F. and Scholes, M. (1973) assume a geometric Brownian motion for stock prices and therefore a normal distribution for stock returns. In this article a simple alternative model to Black and Scholes (1973) is presented by assuming a non‐zero lower bound on stock prices. The proposed stock...

This research investigates how the experience learned in repeated transactions by consumers and manufacturers would affect supply-chain partners' strategic decisions such as price, order quantity and service level. Consumer demand depends on two factors: (1) retailer price and (2) service level...

Yield management is crucial for high-tech industries to reduce over-production. However, it is very challenging for a manufacturer to make a yield decision under the circumstance of uncertain demand and stochastic product quality. For example, in semiconductor manufacturing industry, products...

We explore the issue of supply chain coordination by considering trade credit and its risk. It shows that, in a retailer–manufacturer system, the manufacturer may deliver less than the retailer׳s order quantity when the payment is delayed, and the manufacturer׳s risk aversion makes this...

In order to obtain a deeper understanding of the regenerative cooling process of scramjet engines, in this paper, a numerical investigation on the supercritical convective heat transfer of n-decane in horizontal circular tubes was conducted, based on a complete set of conservation equations and...

In this paper, the intermittent experiment of a vertical ground source heat pump (GSHP) system is investigated and the corresponding geo-temperature variations are studied. The performance of the GSHP system under intermittent operation and the comparisons of different intermittent modes are...