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The Link between Social Movements and Corporate Social Initiatives: Towards a Multi-Level Theory
(2016-02)
This article offers a first step towards a multi-level theory linking social movements to corporate social initiatives. In particular, building on the premise that social movements reflect ideologies that direct behavior ...
On (Re-Scaled) Multi-Attempt Approximation of Customer Choice Model and its Application to Assortment Optimization
(2016-06)
Motivated by the classic exogenous demand model and the recently developed Markov chain model, we propose a new approximation to the general customer choice model based on random utility called multi-attempt model, in which ...
Barriers to Resolution in Ideologically Based Negotiations: The Role of Values and Institutions
(2001-03)
While traditional behavioral decision theory as applied to negotiation sheds light on some of the barriers encountered in negotiations, it does not fully account for many of the difficulties and failures to reach settlement ...
Shipping Consolidation with Delivery Deadline and Expedited Shipment Options
(2017-02)
Problem definition: Shipment consolidation is commonly used to take advantage of the economies of scale by avoiding some of the shipping costs. However, when pending current orders are consolidated with future orders it ...
Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities: Innovations in Cross-Campus and Cross-Disciplinary Models.
(2017-06)
This is a study of the distinctive characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability institute, one that spans the many disciplines of the University and, to do so, reports to ...
Learning in a Disruptive Customer Engagement Platform: An Empirical Analysis in the Banking Industry
(2016-07)
The shift in enterprise applications to disruptive mobile platforms calls for research to better understand the mechanisms and factors behind success in these new platforms. In this paper, we empirically study the learning ...
Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the Us Chemical Industry
(2000-02)
This paper empirically measures changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism from 1960 to 1993, and correlates those changes with the evolving institutions ...
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
(2014-08)
The goal of this special feature is to explore Industrial Ecology (IE) concepts and tools as the basis for competitive advantage for business. Past studies of the relationship between business and IE exist but there is ...
Distribution-free Inventory Risk Pooling in a Multi-location Newsvendor
(2019-01)
With rapidly increasing e-commerce sales, firms are leveraging the virtual pooling of online demands across customer locations in deciding the amount of inventory to be placed in each node in a fulfillment network. Such ...
Communicating About Climate Change with Corporate Leaders and Stakeholders
(2016-02)
Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift; one that is driven by policy, but also by pressures from a variety of market constituents such as consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance ...