Diffusion of Products with Limited Supply and Known Expiration Date

In this paper, we provide a model for diffusion of products, which are available in limited quantity until a known expiration date, after which the unsold products have no value. We consider the case of a performing arts company. The model development is built on the foundation of classical product diffusion model by Bass (1969) and the psychological effect known as the scarcity principle (Cialdini, 1985). Our empirical analysis results show that the proposed model can provide significant improvement in prediction of the products characterized by the scarcity effect.     

Learning across the life cycle: Experimentation and performance among the hollywood studio heads

Guided by notions from the literature on organizational learning, this paper investigates how product line experimentation and organizational performance change across the careers of top managers. Its subjects are the studio heads who ran all the major Hollywood film studios from 1936 to 1965. The study found first, that product line experimentation declines over the course of executive tenures; second, that there is an inverse U‐shaped relationship between top executive tenure and an organization's financial performance; and third, that product line experimentation is more likely to benefit financial performance late in top executives' tenures. These findings are consistent with a three‐stage ‘executive life cycle’. During the early years of their tenures, top managers experiment intensively with their product lines to learn about their business; later on their accumulated knowledge allows them to reduce experimentation and increase performance; finally, in their last years, executives reduce experimentation still further, and performance declines. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Quality Competition and Social Welfare in Markets with Partial Coverage: New Results*

We use a vertical product differentiation model under partial market coverage to study the social welfare optimum and duopoly equilibrium when convex costs of quality provision are either fixed or variable in terms of production. We show the following new results. First, under fixed costs, the social planner charges a uniform price for the single variant that just covers costs of quality provision. Like the duopoly equilibrium, this socially optimal pricing entails a partially uncovered market, but a smaller share of the market is served compared with the duopoly equilibrium. Second, for the variable cost case, it is socially optimal to provide both high‐ and low‐quality variants, but market shares need not be equal. This differs from the result in fully covered markets. Third, in the duopoly equilibrium, the quality spread is too wide under variable costs relative to the social optimum. Under fixed costs, the duopoly produces two variants, but quality is too low relative to the social optimum, which has only one variant.     

整合产品服务系统——实现循环经济的新途径

整合产品服务系统(IPSS)是一种社会组织创新战略,通过将目前仅生产和销售有形产品的相互分离的工业生产与服务体系有机地整合,以比传统生产和消费模式更低的环境代价,有效满足顾客需求。作为对传统商业模式的革命性变革,整合产品服务系统是促进可持续发展和循环经济的有效手段和必由之路。本文讨论其产生的背景,给出其定义和理论框架,介绍其发展历程,以便为我国发展循环经济提供借鉴。     

农产品物流不畅的原因分析及改善

农产品物流不畅影响农民的增收,而农产品物流不畅的根源在于我国农业传统的生产方式、经营方式和技术.改善和发展农产品物流需要政府和企业共同努力.     

废旧电子产品回收网络研究

废旧电子产品的污染问题已经越来越被重视，孕育在废旧电子产品的价值也已经被企业逐渐认识．而现行的回收网络过于简单，不利于产品的回收处理和价值恢复。本文从讨论废旧电子产品的污染和回收价值谈起．就电子产品回收的璁状提出了一个以制造企业为中心、全社会广泛参与的回收网络模型。     

基于物联网的自动入库管理系统及其应用研究

利用RFID电子标签作为产品识别的手段,利用物联网来获取入库产品的详细信息并自动生成入库单,从而提出了基于物联网的自动入库管理系统的基本原理,对系统的结构和功能进行了分析,并通过应用实例说明了系统的优点。     

一种产品生产规划模型

在对供应链中运输、库存、产品生产计划分析的 基础上,提出了一种解决厂家产品生产规划的混合整数规划 模型。     

基于FAHP的汽车新产品开发决策评价模型

分析了影响汽车新产品开发决策各种因素,并建立了汽车新产品开发决策的指标体系。将层次分析法与模糊综合评判方法相结合,提出了一种新的定量的汽车新产品开发评价方法。该方法在一定程度上减小了主观因素对评价的影响并使定性问题定量化。最后,用实例说明了该方法的实际应用,并分析了评价结果。     

灰色理论在城市总体规划中的应用研究

在编制城市总体规划时收集的资料和信息往往是不完全和不对称的，很多数据需要通过科学的理论去建立合理的模型来推算，本文采用灰色理论建模，以GDP预测为例详细说明了灰色预测模型GM（1，1）的建模过程。该模型对于预测城市总体规划中水文、人口、用地规模、城市化水平、交通运输发展、公共交通以及客货运量等具有普遍指导意义。