Prof. Stephen Shum
Consumer Inter-Product Showrooming and Information Service Provision in an Omni-Channel Supply Chain
Decision Sciences Journal, October 2020
This research develops a theoretical model to investigate consumer inter-product showrooming (inter-SR) behaviour and the information service provision in an omni-channel supply chain.
Dr. Jianfu Wang
Food Delivery Service and Restaurant: Friend or Foe?
Management Science, February 2022
Food delivery services have increased exponentially in recent times, with one major Hong Kong provider reporting a more than 50% increase in the two-year period to early 2022.
Dr. Yimin Yu
Price-Directed Cost Sharing and Demand Allocation for Service Providers
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, June 2020
Service collaboration is increasingly popular but requires well-structured compensations and incentives. We provide a framework for the sharing of facilities and the allocation of demand among independent firms.
Prof. Guangwu Liu
Bootstrap-based budget allocation for nested simulation
Operations Research, March-April 2022
An efficient budget allocation rule based on the bootstrap resampling technique, in conjunction with in-depth analysis of nested simulation and its asymptotic behaviours
Dr. Zhankun sun
Keep-or-Sell? Managing Self-Replicating Goods
Management Science, January 2022
The production system for self-replicating 3D printers is operationally fascinating: for each newly-produced unit the firm faces a unique trade-off, “keep-or-sell?”
Prof. David Li and Dr. Xi Li
Strategic Inventories under Supply Chain Competition
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, January-February 2022
Strategic inventories have been found to improve suppliers’ profits as well as consumer surplus, but is there a danger that the strategy backfires?
Prof. Houmin Yan
The Customer Outlook: A Closer Look at the “Performance-Price-Ratio”
Production and Operations Management, November 2020
How do customers really behave under the performance-price ratio choice criterion?
Dr. Yimin Yu
Quality Disclosure Strategy under Customer Learning Opportunities
Production and Operations Management, October 2020
What is the optimal quality disclosure strategy for firms with goods whose quality can only be assessed by experience?
Dr. Xi Li
Contract Unobservability and Downstream Competition
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, October 2020
The wholesale price contract leads to double marginalization, reducing market competition and hurting consumers. We investigate why manufacturers seem unwilling to change.
Prof. David Li and Dr. Geoffrey Tso
A Planning Approach to Targeted Display Advertising Revenue
Production and Operations Management, October 2020
How to improve on the current online targeted display advertising which is typically arranged via event-based auction?
Prof. Ye Lu
A Robust Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem
Production and Operations Management, September 2020
How to provide a practical way for retailers to optimize joint pricing and inventory decisions without knowing the complete demand information?
Dr. Huazhong Zhao
Red packets: a Route to Creative Social Promotion?
Production and Operations Management, July 2020
Red packets have been reinvented to contain digital coupons that can be shared through social networks, but how effective is this kind of social promotion?
Prof. Ye Lu
A Robust Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem
Production and Operations Management, September 2020
How to provide a practical way for retailers to optimize joint pricing and inventory decisions without knowing the complete demand information?
Dr. Huazhong Zhao
Red packets: a Route to Creative Social Promotion?
Production and Operations Management, July 2020
Red packets have been reinvented to contain digital coupons that can be shared through social networks, but how effective is this kind of social promotion?
Prof. Frank Chen and Prof. David Li
Integrated Ad Delivery Planning for Targeted Display Advertising
Operations Research, June 2020
Online publishers such as Facebook sell their advertising resources either via an upfront or spot market, but how to make current practice more efficient?
Dr. Zhi Chen
How to Prescribe Decisions When Facing Uncertainty?
Management Science, May 2020
Robust Stochastic Optimization made easy with RSOME, a new algebraic modelling package