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Managing the versions of a software product under variable and endogenous demand
(Informs, 03.01.2011)Software product versioning (i.e., upgrading the product after its initial release) is a widely adopted practice followed by leading software providers such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Unlike conventional durable goods, ... -
Premium e-grocery: exploring value in logistics integrated service solutions
(12.02.2009)E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarketsare seen as providers of low value “staple” and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, ... -
Grey market e-shopping and trust building practices in China
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2008)In the last decade, the wide use of the Internet, particularly through the proliferation of broadband, has dramatically changed the behaviour and lifestyle of many people. China, as a fast-growing emerging economy with a ... -
Ambulance location for maximum survival
(Wiley, 2008-02)This article proposes new location models for emergency medical service stations. The models are generated by incorporating a survival function into existing covering models. A survival function is a monotonically decreasing ... -
Assessment of patient classification in appointment system design
(Production and Operations Management Society, 2008-05)This paper investigates two approaches to patient classification: using patient classification only for sequencing patient appointments at the time of booking and using patient classification for both sequencing and ... -
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 ... -
Winners and losers in a major price war
(American Marketing Association, 2008-10)Although retail price wars have received much business press and some research attention, it is unclear how they affect consumer purchase behavior. This article studies an unprecedented price war in Dutch grocery retailing ... -
Private-label use and store loyalty
(American Marketing Association, 2008-11)The authors develop an econometric model of the relationship between a household’s private-label (PL) share and its behavioral store loyalty. The model includes major drivers of these two behaviors and controls for ... -
Pricing of national brands versus store brands: market power components, findings and research opportunities
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)Among the most important activities for supermarket retailers is the creation and marketing of store brands, also known as private label brands. Given the increasing quality-equivalence between national brands and store ... -
Social e-atmospherics in practice (or not): a French and Turkish web designers’ perspectives
(2009)Little is known about the development of social e- atmospherics. And yet, e-atmospherics havemotivated an emerging body of research which reports that both better layouts and‘recognized’ atmospherics encourage consumers ... -
An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative
(2009)There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers ... -
A review of timetabling and resource allocation models for light-rail transportation systems
(2009)This paper surveys the relevant operations research literature on timetabling and resource allocationproblems with a special attention paid to the transportation systems. The purpose of this review is to define the critical ... -
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, ... -
What does it take to get promoted in marketing academia? Understanding exceptional publication productivity in the leading marketing journals
(American Marketing Association, 2009-01)Institutional competition to retain and recruit marketing scholars capable of publishing in the leading marketing journals has intensified. While increased emphasis has been placed on publication productivity in the leading ... -
Computational comparison of five maximal covering models for locating ambulances
(Wiley, 2009-01)This article categorizes existing maximum coverage optimization models for locatingambulances based on whether the models incorporate uncertainty about (1) ambulanceavailability and (2) response times. Data from Edmonton, ... -
Product innovations, advertising, and stock returns
(American Marketing Association, 2009-01)Under increased scrutiny from top management and shareholders, marketing managers feel the need to measure and communicate the impact of their actions on shareholder returns. In particular, how do customer value creation ... -
Approximating vehicle dispatch probabilities for emergency service systems with location-specific service times and multiple units per location
(Informs, 2009-02)To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system, one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. ... -
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. ... -
Exploring correlates of product launch in collaborative ventures: an empirical investigation of pharmaceutical alliances
(Wiley, 2009-07)This paper examines collaborative ventures leading toward the launch of new products in the pharmaceutical industry. These collaborative ventures are one of the most underresearched areas in the new product literature, yet ... -
Effects of word-of-mouth versus traditional marketing: findings from an internet social networking site
(American Marketing Association, 2009-09)The authors study the effect of word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing on member growth at an Internet social networking site and compare it with traditional marketing vehicles. Because social network sites record the electronic ...
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