Browsing by Department "Information and Operations Management"
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Analysis of Operations Management Problems in Currency and Food Supply Chains
(2016-06-10)This dissertation is constituted of three essays addressing operational issues be- longing to two research domains including (i) Logistics and Supply Chain Management for Currency Supply Network and (ii) Facility Location ... -
Behavioral Aspects of Supply Chain Integration: Macro and Micro Level Perspectives
(2014-08-08)Supply chain integration (SCI) among customers and suppliers is widely touted as a panacea that can resolve a variety of supply chain challenges and create new opportunities. Yet, there is little understanding about SCI. ... -
Being Proactive to Increasing Supply Chain Security Challenges: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
(2013-07-24)Supply chain security has become relevant to both practitioners and academics for years, yet the understanding of this topic is still incomplete. The literature produces relatively few explanatory and confirmatory studies, ... -
Beyond usability -- affect in web browsing
(2009-06-02)This research concentrates on the visual aesthetics of a website, investigating the web user's affective/emotional reactions to different designs of web homepage aesthetics and their influence on subsequent behaviors of ... -
Business-to-business electronic marketplaces: membership and use drivers
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) are one of the most heralded developments in recent years. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online ... -
Challenges Inhibiting Malaria Aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) encompasses 10% of the approximate 407,000 annual malaria-related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO, 2017). While this number has not gone unnoticed by the international community, ... -
Consumer Returns in Retailing
(2016-02-04)In this dissertation, I develop econometric and optimization models to help retailers better manage their consumer returns. I shed light on some prevalent industry practices and beliefs relevant to consumer returns management ... -
Essays in Healthcare Operations
(2016-05-02)This dissertation includes three essays, which address significant issues that healthcare practitioners throughout the world face today. The fundamental research that I first address is a research agenda for reimbursement ... -
Essays in Operations Management: Applications in Health Care and the Operations-Finance Interface
(2016-06-28)I present three essays pertaining to the management of supply chain risks in this dissertation. The first essay and the second essay analyze supply chain risks from a financial perspective, while the third essay analyzes ... -
Essays on Consumer Returns and Retail Operations
(2017-05-02)This dissertation offers two essays that together represent a deep investigation into consumer returns, channel integration via ship-to-store service, and omnichannel retailing practices. The results provide strong managerial ... -
Essays on Ethics in Supply Chain Management
(2019-03-13)Ethical concerns in business practice have received considerable attention in recent years. However, limited research has examined the role of ethical decision-making in supply chain management. My first essay examines the ... -
Essays on Operational Problems in Digital Economy
(2019-03-01)In this dissertation, I investigate operational issues in the context of online social networks and digital economy. The first essay analyzes the phenomenon of open technology in the context of resource allocation. In this ... -
Essays on Payment Reform Models and Capacity Planning in Healthcare
(2019-03-11)My dissertation is inspired by challenging yet encouraging payment policies and operational issues in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the three essays deliver policy implications for bundled payment reform models that ... -
Essays on Retail Operations
(2013-03-12)This dissertation comprises three essays in which we develop optimization, econometric, and simulation models to help traditional retailers improve in-store operations. Our modeling efforts aim to tackle inventory record ... -
Essays on Value Co-Creation, Co-Production, and the Interface between Operations and Recommender Systems
(2013-07-15)In this dissertation, I study coordination or collaboration settings that are either within company or at inter-organizational levels in the form of three essays. In the first essay, I study the relationship between a ... -
Flow in internet shopping: a validity study and an examination of a model specifying antecedents and consequences of flow
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation studies the antecedents and consequences of the flow experience in online retailing environments. Flow is the enjoyable and engrossing experience that people feel when acting with total involvement. A ... -
Improved formulations, heuristics and metaheuristics for the dynamic demand coordinated lot-sizing problem
(2009-06-02)Coordinated lot sizing problems, which assume a joint setup is shared by a product family, are commonly encountered in supply chain contexts. Total system costs include a joint set-up charge each time period any item in ... -
Interactive eshopping experience: an empirical investigation
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Utilizing an experimental design, the study investigates the effects of eshopping behavior (experiential, utilitarian, or mixed) and interactivity level (low or high) on the consequences of eshopping (site attitude and ... -
Interpersonal traits and the technology acceptance model: applying the interpersonal circumplex model as a nomological net for understanding user perceptions within human-to-computer interaction
(2009-05-15)This study examines the effects that individual personality traits have on technology acceptance. Previous research on technology acceptance focuses primarily on exogenous variables such as trustor’s perceptions, attitudes, ... -
Open source software development and maintenance: an exploratory analysis
(2009-06-02)The purpose of this research was to create measures and models for the evaluation of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. An exploratory analysis of the development and maintenance processes in OSS was conducted for this ...