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The role of generative design and additive manufacturing capabilities in developing human–AI symbiosis: Evidence from multiple case studies 生成设计和增材制造能力在发展人与人工智能共生关系中的作用：来自多个案例研究的证据

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12619

Elliot Bendoly, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Mateus do Rego Ferreira Lima, Robert Handfield, Siavash H. Khajavi, Samuel Roscoe

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Leveraging gamification technology to motivate environmentally responsible behavior: An empirical examination of Ant Forest 利用游戏化技术激励对环境负责的行为:蚂蚁森林的实证检验

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12618

Qingyu Zhang, Muhammad Azfar Anwar

{"title":"Leveraging gamification technology to motivate environmentally responsible behavior: An empirical examination of Ant Forest","authors":"Qingyu Zhang, Muhammad Azfar Anwar","doi":"10.1111/deci.12618","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12618","url":null,"abstract":"Realizing the role of their consumers in mitigating environmental problems, companies have started leveraging gamification technology with persuasive interventions to induce consumers’ behavioral changes. Ant Forest—a gamified initiative launched by a prominent Chinese fintech company—empowers users to manage their ecological footprint and promote ethical behavior. However, the research community has primarily focused on Ant Forest's adoption and continuation intention, paying limited attention to how gamification promotes users’ environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) in the postadoption stage. This study contributes to this domain by developing a model based on persuasion and motivation theories and the “affordances–psychological outcomes–behavioral outcomes” framework. This model highlights the impact of gamification on consumers' ERB through psychological need satisfaction and belief or attitude persuasion. A total of 1869 survey responses regarding the use of Ant Forest were collected from nine cities in China. The results demonstrate that, from gamification experiences with Ant Forest, users perceive psychological need satisfaction (i.e., perceived autonomy, competence, and relatedness), which significantly explains their green beliefs and attitudes (i.e., green task performance, green belief confirmation, and green self-identity), leading to increased ERB. Additionally, users with a higher green absorptive capacity demonstrate a stronger link between green beliefs or attitudes and ERB. This research shifts the focus from adoption and continuation intention to postadoption behavioral modification and offers insights into creating effective gamification systems for fostering ethical behavior and addressing environmental concerns.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"56 1","pages":"25-49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sales manipulation strategies of competitive firms on an e-commerce platform: Beneficial or harmful? 电子商务平台上竞争企业的销售操纵策略：有利还是有害？

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12616

Qing Zhang, Juan Li, Tiaojun Xiao

{"title":"Sales manipulation strategies of competitive firms on an e-commerce platform: Beneficial or harmful?","authors":"Qing Zhang, Juan Li, Tiaojun Xiao","doi":"10.1111/deci.12616","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12616","url":null,"abstract":"Consumers are affected by the relative sizes of products’ sales volumes, which is regarded as consumers’ sales comparison behavior when purchasing online. Therefore, some firms manipulate their sales volumes to attract consumers. To shed light on firms’ sales manipulation, we develop game theoretical models to investigate sales manipulation strategies for a high-quality firm and a low-quality firm on a platform. We identify conditions for firms’ sales manipulation and investigate its impact on the platform. We find the following: (1) A small amount of sales manipulation volumes may harm each firm. (2) When only the high-quality (low-quality) firm manipulates its sales volume, the total market share shrinks (expands), and the profit of the low-quality (high-quality) firm is damaged. In this case, the platform can only benefit from the high-quality firm's sales manipulation. When both firms manipulate sales volumes, each firm aims to claim a higher sales volume than its competitor. (3) At equilibrium, when the unit sales manipulation cost is intermediate, only the high-quality firm manipulates its sales volume. When the unit sales manipulation cost is low, both firms manipulate sales volumes and consequently get trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma. In this case, the platform's profit cannot be improved. This study then incorporates considerations of consumers’ sales comparison behavior, nonlinear cost structures for sales manipulation, firms’ long-term vision, and sales manipulation strategy in competitive supply chains to reveal that most aforementioned results are qualitatively robust.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"55 5","pages":"491-509"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135251602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Influenza vaccine contracts in developing nations—Coordination, flexibility, and vaccine coverage 发展中国家的流感疫苗合同--协调、灵活性和疫苗覆盖率

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12615

Raunak Joshi, Sumanta Basu, Claudia Rosales, Arnab Adhikari

{"title":"Influenza vaccine contracts in developing nations—Coordination, flexibility, and vaccine coverage","authors":"Raunak Joshi, Sumanta Basu, Claudia Rosales, Arnab Adhikari","doi":"10.1111/deci.12615","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12615","url":null,"abstract":"We study different contract mechanisms between a vaccine manufacturer (VM) and a vaccine procurement agency (VPA) to coordinate the two-peak influenza vaccine supply chain. Motivated by the prevalent industry contracts, we study two hybrid contracts under budget constraints, which allow flexibility in deciding the contractual parameters between the VM and the VPA. We consider the case of both private (for-profit) and public (not-for-profit) VPA and the impact of different objectives, such as profit and vaccine coverage, on contract choice. We show that for public VPAs or for private VPAs with low available budget, both hybrid contracts are equally preferred by VM and VPA. However, under high budget, the preferences of VPA and VM will differ. We then extend our models to consider the case of both private and public VPA coexisting in the market under both budget and vaccine availability constraints. Contrary to intuition, we find that the vaccine coverage provided by the public VPA is not always higher than the vaccine coverage provided by the private VPA, with the private VPA providing greater vaccine coverage under conditions of low budget and low vaccine availability. Our findings have important policy implications for governments of emerging economies with limited budget for mass vaccination programs.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"55 5","pages":"436-455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: decision science research opportunities 多样性、公平和包容:决策科学研究的机会

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12614

Christopher S. Tang

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When investors meet consumers: The roles and interactions of different backers in the crowdfunding market 当投资者遇到消费者：众筹市场中不同支持者的角色和互动

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12612

Feiqiong Wei, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, Haibing Gao, Huazhong Zhao

{"title":"When investors meet consumers: The roles and interactions of different backers in the crowdfunding market","authors":"Feiqiong Wei, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, Haibing Gao, Huazhong Zhao","doi":"10.1111/deci.12612","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12612","url":null,"abstract":"By harnessing the power of the crowd, crowdfunding has changed the way startup ventures, innovation-minded entrepreneurs, and private individuals raise capital. Reward-based crowdfunding is an established and attractive fundraising option for entrepreneurs with creative projects, while investment-based crowdfunding has also gained popularity thanks to the progress of related regulations. Both types of crowdfunding are drawing a growing number of startups that seek funding opportunities, although backers on different types of crowdfunding platforms exhibit distinct motivations. Understanding the behavior and interaction of different types of backers is thus critical for a startup to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign across distinct platforms.To address this issue, we conduct a field study on a popular crowdfunding platform, where each campaign offered both reward- and investment-based funding. Interestingly, we find a positive relationship between investor contributions in the early stage of the campaign and the likelihood of the campaign's success. Our empirical analysis reveals that investor–consumer interaction mediates the main effect of early investor contributions. Moreover, the positive main effect is stronger when a larger amount of project-relevant information is released and when a higher level of customization (using price discrimination or product differentiation) is offered in reward-based funding options. These results are consistent with several robustness checks. Our findings provide relevant managerial implications for entrepreneurs and valuable insights regarding platform design.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"55 5","pages":"474-490"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44006487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of transportation capacity in pre-positioning humanitarian supplies 运输能力对预先安置人道主义物资的影响

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12610

Alexander Rothkopf, Jason Acimovic, Jarrod Goentzel

{"title":"The impact of transportation capacity in pre-positioning humanitarian supplies","authors":"Alexander Rothkopf, Jason Acimovic, Jarrod Goentzel","doi":"10.1111/deci.12610","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12610","url":null,"abstract":"Humanitarian action saves lives by delivering supplies following a disaster. To effectively prepare, large humanitarian organizations solve optimization models to allocate inventory minimizing expected time-to-respond. However, these organizations also rely on transportation carriers to deliver this inventory, a feature often omitted from such models. Part of the reason is that capacity data on third-party carriers are scant. Nevertheless, there is value in humanitarian organizations asking themselves the following: how should such data be incorporated into a model; how important is it to incorporate transportation capacities; where is it worth increasing transportation capacity? Building on previous inventory optimization models, we partner with the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to answer these questions by incorporating transportation market capacity. Using public and proprietary data sets, we first approximate the trucking capacity near FEMA's warehouses. We develop intuitive metrics that guide practitioners to make decisions, understand trade-offs in complex networks, and negotiate contracts. We show that when optimizing inventory, ignoring trucking capacity can lead to up to 18% higher response times. In discussions with FEMA, our research has guided strategic inventory deployment and has been a catalyst in a new initiative for transportation contracting.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"55 5","pages":"456-473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/deci.12610","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46839627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mitigating supply-demand mismatch: The relationship between inventory sharing and demand learning 缓解供需不匹配:库存共享与需求学习之间的关系

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12611

Liqun Wei, Wanying Wei, Yunchuan Liu, Jianxiong Zhang, Xuanhua Xu

{"title":"Mitigating supply-demand mismatch: The relationship between inventory sharing and demand learning","authors":"Liqun Wei, Wanying Wei, Yunchuan Liu, Jianxiong Zhang, Xuanhua Xu","doi":"10.1111/deci.12611","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12611","url":null,"abstract":"By mitigating supply-demand mismatch through advanced forecast technology, demand learning has attracted widespread attention and is increasingly adopted in conjunction with inventory sharing. However, this combination is not necessarily efficient given the unclear relationship between the two strategies. Therefore, crucially, this article investigates the strategic relationship between inventory sharing and demand learning, that is, when and whether they are substitutes or complements. We develop a theoretical game model consisting of two firms facing uncertain demand, and both of them need to determine their production quantity before demand is realized. Contrary to the intuition that demand learning is a substitute for inventory sharing, we find that these two strategies can be complements when the production cost is relatively low or high. Moreover, when forecast accuracy is relatively low, the substitutability will be weakened while the complementarity will be enhanced as forecast accuracy increases. Additionally, the substitutability first weakly decreases and then weakly increases, while the complementarity first weakly increases and then weakly decreases with the transfer price.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"55 6","pages":"533-548"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49242665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Network design with consideration of hours-of-service regulation and drop-and-swap trailer operations 网络设计考虑了服务时间的调节和挂车的掉落和交换操作

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-07-14 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12607

E. Powell Robinson Jr., Funda Sahin, Li-Lian Gao

{"title":"Network design with consideration of hours-of-service regulation and drop-and-swap trailer operations","authors":"E. Powell Robinson Jr., Funda Sahin, Li-Lian Gao","doi":"10.1111/deci.12607","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12607","url":null,"abstract":"This research, motivated by collaboration with a leading manufacturer and distributor of building products, introduces two distribution network design models considering federally mandated hours of service restrictions on truck drivers and drop-and-swap trailer operations. A key feature of the drop-and-swap transport mode is the decoupling of linehaul and last-mile delivery operations, which enables geographic extension of last-mile delivery routes while complying with hours of service driver regulations and providing next-day delivery service. The models simultaneously determine the profit-maximizing size, number, and location of order fulfillment facilities and satellite drop-and-swap terminals, and systemwide transportation flows. A case study of the firm's distribution network reveals that the new location models improve profitability by approximately 5% when compared with traditional network design approaches. An experimental study of five marketing and operational characteristics shows when the models are most advantageously applied. Overall, profit improvements range from 2.32% to 10.97% on a set of 288 test problems. The research provides new insights for integrated facility location and transportation strategic design. The potential application of the models in a variety of e-commerce scenarios is promising.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"56 1","pages":"7-24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43111242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Designing supply chain strategies against epidemic outbreaks such as COVID-19: Review and future research directions 针对COVID - 19等流行病爆发的供应链策略设计:回顾和未来的研究方向

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DECISION SCIENCES Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1111/deci.12609

Kannan Govindan, Suresh P. Sethi, T. C. E. Cheng, Susan Feng Lu

{"title":"Designing supply chain strategies against epidemic outbreaks such as COVID-19: Review and future research directions","authors":"Kannan Govindan, Suresh P. Sethi, T. C. E. Cheng, Susan Feng Lu","doi":"10.1111/deci.12609","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deci.12609","url":null,"abstract":"The supply chain is vulnerable to disruptions, which can lead to operational failure. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate and monitor the risks associated with such disruptions. Epidemics, including the profound impact of COVID-19, exemplify disruptive risks that engender complexities throughout the value chain. COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions to the global supply chain due to the preexisting fragile supply chains, resulting in the unavailability of essential raw materials, halts in production, and imbalances between supply and demand. It has forced the supply chain community to rethink their risk mitigation strategies. Despite its significance, there are a few studies on the existing options and strategies to mitigate the risks associated with epidemics such as COVID-19. This special issue explores state-of-the-art knowledge of various risks and their mitigation strategies, presenting optimized models and solutions. This editorial seeks to introduce valuable insights and illuminate promising avenues for future research by reviewing existing studies. The comprehensive understanding derived from this editorial and the accompanying articles of this special issue will benefit both researchers and practitioners, enabling them to navigate the multifaceted landscape of epidemic-induced disruptive risks in the supply chain and adopt suitable mitigation strategies. Furthermore, this special issue lays a solid foundation for implementing advanced methods for managing and mitigating the disruptive risks that epidemics pose to the supply chain.","PeriodicalId":48256,"journal":{"name":"DECISION SCIENCES","volume":"54 4","pages":"365-374"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/deci.12609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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