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Stochastic modeling of multiline orders in integrated storage-order picking system
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-02-19)
Due to demanding service levels in e-commerce order fulfillment, modeling and analysis of integrated storage and order picking processes in warehouses deserve special attention. The upstream storage system can have a ...
Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-04)
Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious ...
Combining lifelines to thrive: a stage-based need fulfilment network of international assignees
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-03-11)
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The paper tries to understand the needs of the international assignees across the different stages of expatriation and how different developers in the professional and non-professional sphere render support and ...
Solving bilevel optimization problems using Kriging approximations
(IEEE, 2021-03-21)
Bilevel optimization involves two levels of optimization, where one optimization problem is nested within the other. The structure of the problem often requires solving a large number of inner optimization problems that ...
Residential education for disadvantaged girls: an alternate field?
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-15)
In this article, we engage with the experiences of students in a government-run residential secondary school that enrols girls primarily from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Through an exploration of the history ...
Optimal monopoly mechanisms with demand uncertainty
(INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2021-03-10)
This paper analyzes a monopoly firm’s profit-maximizing mechanism in the following context. There is a continuum of consumers with a unit demand for a good. The distribution of the consumers’ valuations is given by one of ...
Connecting smallholders' marketplace decisions to agricultural market reform policy in India - an empirical exploration
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-03)
Governments in developing countries have attempted to reform inefficient agricultural markets through direct interventions, market-oriented approaches, and institutional mechanisms, with one of the aims being improving the ...
Global value chains and intermediaries in multi-stakeholder initiatives in Pakistan and India
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-04-14)
In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We ...
Space between products on display: the impact of interspace on consumer estimation of product size
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-03-30)
This research examines the effect that leaving space between products has on consumers’ estimation of product size. We theorize and empirically confirm that when space is left between products (i.e., the display is ...
Chief marketing officers' discretion and firms' internationalization: an empirical investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-01-04)
The role of key individuals, such as the chief marketing officer (CMO), in the internationalization process has largely been ignored in the international business literature. Given the importance of the CMO in internationalization ...