Browsing by Department "Information and Operations Management"
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...