Article
Economics
Fei Sun, Jing Chen, Hui Yang, Bintong Chen, Zeying Wan
Summary: This study investigates the strategies of upstream coopetition and competition in a supply chain, focusing on a high-quality brand manufacturer's outsourcing strategy and an e-commerce platform's information disclosure strategy. The brand manufacturer outsources production and sells through the platform, where a low-quality manufacturer also sells. The brand manufacturer can choose to outsource to a third manufacturer, maintaining a competition relationship, or to the low-quality manufacturer, entering into a coopetition relationship. Consumers are uncertain about their quality preference, and this uncertainty can be eliminated through the platform's disclosure of preference-revealing information.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Economics
Yingchen Yan, Qiuhong Zhao, Zhongfeng Qin, Benjamin Lev
Summary: This study examines the impact of inter-competitor outsourcing on firms' profits and conflicts in product launching time. The findings suggest that outsourcing changes firms' timing preferences and increases the likelihood of consensus on launching time. Additionally, the study reveals that outsourcing can improve firms' profitability, and delaying product launch can increase firms' benefits.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Management
Manman Zhang, Juliang Zhang, Yue Sun, T. C. E. Chengb
Summary: This paper examines the impact of outsourcing structures on quality management. By comparing the profits under the turnkey and buy-sell structures in a system consisting of an OEM and a CM, the advantages and disadvantages of each structure are identified. When the compensation is an exogenous parameter, turnkey should be chosen if it is higher than the external failure cost, otherwise it depends on specific parameters. When the compensation is a decision variable, turnkey is the optimal choice. Considering different market powers, turnkey is optimal when the CM is more powerful, but when the OEM is more powerful, it depends on the external failure cost and the OEM's market power.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Min Chen, Min-Seok Pang, Subodha Kumar
Summary: The adoption of shared IT services in public-sector organizations presents challenges such as cost allocation, surplus price charging, and decision coordination. While profit center may seem like a lucrative option, shared services adoption may still be hindered at times. Lack of coordination can lead to under-utilization of shared services.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Shankar Prawesh, Kaushal Chari, Manish Agrawal
Summary: Firm-specific non-financial factors influence IT outsourcing decisions, and deviations from non-financial industry norms can indicate how firms make strategic IT decisions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Telecommunications
Duo Zhang, Youliang Tian, Linjie Wang
Summary: This paper proposes a game theory-based model for outsourcing computation, establishing a structural mapping relationship between security outsourcing computation and the optimization problem. By designing individual and global potential functions, the individual goal is aligned with the global goal, ensuring the correctness of the calculation results.
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno, Kessia Thais Cavalcanti Nepomuceno, Thiago Poleto, Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho, Ana Paula Seixas Costa
Summary: This study models misincentive behaviors in Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) transactions as a Principal-Agent problem and provides theoretical modeling and empirical evidence from Portugal. The results suggest that knowledge of penalties may lead to intentional delays in technology delivery.
Article
Management
Vijay Kamble, Nihar Shah, David Marn, Abhay Parekh, Kannan Ramchandran
Summary: This paper proposes a simple reward mechanism, the square root agreement rule (SRA), to address the challenge of obtaining evaluations on e-commerce platforms. Under SRA, agents are rewarded for evaluations that match those of their peers, with the reward inversely proportional to the popularity of the answer. The study shows that SRA is a dominant and robust incentive mechanism in many tasks.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa
Summary: Global integrated reporting plays a crucial role in achieving net-zero emissions.
Article
Forestry
Liying Zhang, Chengliang Wu, Yan Hao
Summary: This study explores ways to improve the supply of goods for forest infrastructure by examining the behavior of foresters and the influence of different policies. The results suggest that communication, rewards and punishments, information feedback, and leadership style contribute to reducing free-riding behavior and increasing the supply of forest infrastructures. Specifically, the scenario with rewards and punishment leads to significantly higher supply compared to the situation without rewards and punishment. Additionally, the study concludes that leadership style does not significantly impact the supply level of forest infrastructure. The findings provide policy suggestions for improving the supply of forest infrastructures, including negotiations among foresters, transparency in supply and income, and appropriate reward and punishment measures.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jonathan M. Spring
Summary: The vulnerability management strategy depends on the supply of undiscovered vulnerabilities. If the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities is small, focus on finding and removing them; if it is large, focus on quick patch dissemination and engineering resilient systems. This paper examines the paradigm that the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities is small and finds little support for it. It recommends an approach favoring quick patch dissemination and engineering resilient systems, while continuing good software engineering practices.
COMPUTERS & SECURITY
(2023)
Article
Management
Will Ma
Summary: This study introduces a Bayesian mechanism-design problem to analyze the maximum possible revenue earned from selling fixed-price items when the buyer's preference is private but comes from a known distribution. The study shows that assortments are generally suboptimal, but under commonly studied Bayesian priors, assortments are indeed optimal. This implies that the extensive literature on assortment optimization has greater significance than previously appreciated in terms of computing the economic limit of seller's revenue. The study provides further results, including a more general condition for optimal assortments, the inability of capturing Nested Logit choice models with the Markov Chain, and suboptimality gaps when the condition does not hold. Finally, the study demonstrates that the mechanism-design problem provides the most accurate Linear Programming relaxation for assortment optimization under the ranking distribution model.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Business
J. Miguel Villas-Boas
Summary: This paper examines a model where an individual receives two signals to evaluate the expected value of an outcome, showing that the sensitivity decreases both above and below the reference point. Loss aversion occurs for low reference points.
Editorial Material
Business
Dan Friesner
Summary: This article evaluates whether the prisoner's dilemma can be used as a legitimate framework to examine health-related economic ethics decisions. The commentary argues that, except in extreme circumstances, the prisoner's dilemma is not a comprehensive framework to address most health-related economic ethics problems. However, this distinction may justify using the prisoner's dilemma to assess a wider array of health-related economic ethics problems.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
Article
Management
Morvarid Rahmani, Karthik Ramachandran
Summary: In delegated innovation projects, adopting a committed stopping policy may be more beneficial than a flexible stopping policy, especially when the provider is capable of generating solutions efficiently and the client's cost of evaluating solutions is at an intermediate level.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)