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A model of sustainable distributed service delivery in organizations with compassion-based missions
(Sage, 2014-11)This article examines the potential for offering sustainable compassion-based service. Organizations with compassion-based service missions face difficult challenges in addressing acute client needs with limited resources. ... -
Moral habitus and status negotiation in a marginalized working-class neighborhood
(Oxford University Press, 2013-12)Examinations of the moral and ethical dimensions in identity construction are scant in consumer research. This ethnography of a trailer-park neighborhood investigates how different moral dispositions shape low-income, ... -
National culture and firms’ cash holdings: The role of indulgence and its boundaries
(Elsevier, 2024-02)We examine the influence of indulgence vs restraint (IVR), an understudied national culture dimension of Hofstede's framework, on firms’ cash holdings to shed light on how culture influences this firm behavior and the ... -
No comment?! The drivers of reactions to online posts in professional groups
(Elsevier, 2016-08)Social media has moved beyond personal friendships to professional interactions in high-knowledge industries. In particular, online discussion forums are sponsored by firms aiming to position themselves as thought-leaders, ... -
Noninfluentials and information dissemination in the microblogging community
(Springer Nature, 2017)Firms are increasingly focusing on understanding and managing their social media strategies in order to create discussions and optimize the spread of news in their communities. Most prior studies on information dissemination ... -
On a family of coupled diffusions that can never change their initial order
(IOP Publishing, 2022-11-18)We introduce a real-valued family of interacting diffusions where their paths can meet but cannot cross each other in a way that would alter their initial order. Any given interacting pair is a solution to coupled stochastic ... -
On member‐driven, efficient and fair timeshare exchanges
(Wiley, 2019-01)Vacation Timeshare is a form of ownership or "right to use" of a resort property for a specific time period (typically a week) each year. Timeshare exchange refers to the non-monetary trading of timeshare weeks among owners, ... -
Online intermediary as a channel for selling quality-differentiated services
(Wiley, 2015-02)When deciding whether to utilize an online intermediary in addition to their own distribution channels, quality differentiated service providers face the trade-off between the benefit of extended reach and the threat of ... -
Online social capital : understanding e-impulse buying in practice
(Elsevier, 2009-07)Socially constructed marketing imageries (e.g. e-atmospherics) help consumers while making choices and decisions. Still, human and retailing technology interactions are rarely evaluated from a social practice perspective. ... -
Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2008-09)We describe an ambulance location optimization model that minimizes the number of ambulances needed tonprovide a specified service level. The model measures service level as the fraction of calls reached within a given ... -
Optimistic entrepreneurs and new product introductions in high technology industries
(Academy of Management, 2018)This study examines how the relationship between past performance and new product introductions is influenced by entrepreneurial optimism. Based on the behavioral theory of the firm, we test how past performance suggest ... -
Optimized calibration of currency market strategies
(2010)We propose a new financial indicator and risk metric embedded in a currency trading model to assist investors in currency markets. Since our model is highly nonlinear, we utilize global optimization technology to maximize ... -
Optimizing offer sets based on user profiles
(Social Science Research Network, 2009)Personalization and recommendation systems are being increasingly utilized by ecommerce firms to provide personalized product offerings to visitors at the firms’ web sites. These systems often recommend, at each interaction, ... -
Order fulfillment policies for ship-from-store implementation in omni-channel retailing
(Elsevier, 2021-11-01)One of the recent trends in omni-channel retailing is ship-from-store which allows a retailer to fulfill online orders by using inventory from a nearby store. The benefits of this fulfillment model include faster delivery, ... -
Outpatient appointment scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2014-04)This study investigates appointment systems (AS), as combinations of access rules and appointment-scheduling rules, explicitly designed for dealing with walk-in seasonality. In terms of 'access rules', strategies are tested ... -
Passive and active opportunism in interorganizational exchange
(American Marketing Association, 2013-11)This article examines how firms in interorganizational relationships respond differently to active and passive opportunism and observes how these opportunism forms erode satisfaction with the performance of these relationships. ... -
Paths to and off purchase: quantifying the impact of traditional marketing and online consumer activity
(Springer International Publishing, 2016-07)This study investigates the effects of consumer activity in online media (paid, owned, and earned) on sales and their interdependencies with the traditional marketing mix elements of price, advertising and distribution. ... -
Perceived overqualification and employee proactivity: The cross-level moderation effects of LMX and initiative climate in small firms
(Springer, 2023)Drawing on social information processing (SIP) theory, this study examined the interactive effects of perceived overqualification (POQ), leader-member exchange (LMX), and initiative climate on supervisor-rated employee ... -
Peripheral developer participation in open source projects: An empirical analysis
(ACM, 2016-01)The success of the Open Source model of software development depends on the voluntary participation of external developers (the peripheral developers), a group that can have distinct motivations from that of project founders ... -
Piecewise-tunneled captive processes and corridored random particle systems
(Springer, 2023-01)We introduce a family of processes that generalises captive diffusions, whereby the stochastic evolution that remains within a pair of time-dependent boundaries can further be piecewise-tunneled internally. The tunneling ...
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