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Rodney P. Parker

Indiana University Bloomington

Professor of Operations Management

Kelley School of Business

1309 E 10th Street, HH4129

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

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1.

The Supply Chain Effects of Bankruptcy

Management Science 61(10):2320-2338
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2022
S. Alex Yang, John R. Birge and Rodney P. Parker
London Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Indiana University Bloomington
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operations-finance interface; supply chain interaction; operational competitiveness; bankruptcy; Chapter 11; reorganization; liquidation; externality

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Social Responsibility Auditing in Supply Chain Networks

Management Science, Vol. 68, No. 2, February 2022, pp. 1058–1077, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 19-33, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 19-04
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 24 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Han Zhang, Goker Aydin and Rodney P. Parker
Michigan State University - Eli Broad College of Business, Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School and Indiana University Bloomington
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socially responsible sourcing, auditing, supply networks, supply risk

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When Customers Anticipate Liquidation Sales: Managing Operations under Financial Distress

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 19(4), 657-673
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2022
John R. Birge, Rodney P. Parker, Michelle Xiao Wu and S. Alex Yang
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and London Business School
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financial distress; liquidation sale; strategic customers; inventory; pricing; deferred discount; rebate; deferred discount

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Dynamic Learning for Joint Pricing, Advertising, and Inventory Management

Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2026
Huseyin Gurkan, N. Bora Keskin and Rodney P. Parker
ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Indiana University Bloomington
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learning and earning, dynamic pricing, advertising, inventory management

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On Hospice Operations Under Medicare Reimbursement Policies

Management Science, Vol. 59, No. 5 (2013) pp. 1027-1044.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2013
Baris Ata, Brad Killaly, Tava Lennon Olsen and Rodney P. Parker
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Emory University - Goizueta Business School, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School and Indiana University Bloomington
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healthcare, operations, hospices, Medicare, fluid model, optimization

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Operations (Management) Warp Speed: Parsimonious Design for Rapid Deployment of Hospital Prediction and Decision Support Framework during a Pandemic

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 2021-38
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Apr 2021
Pengyi Shi, Jonathan Helm, Christopher Chen, Jeff Lim, Rodney P. Parker, Troy Tinsley and Jacob Cecil
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Operation & Decision Technologies, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Operation & Decision Technologies, Indiana University Bloomington, IU Health System and IU Health System
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COVID-19, pandemic, workload prediction, machine learning, stochastic model, queueing

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Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics

Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 10 (2008) pp. 1805-1821
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Dec 2015
Tava Lennon Olsen and Rodney P. Parker
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School and Indiana University Bloomington
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inventory, competition, Markov games, marketing and operations interface, consumer loyalty

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Optimal Policies for a Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory System

Operations Research, Vol. 52, No. 5 (2004) pp. 739-755
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Dec 2015
Rodney P. Parker and Roman Kapuscinski
Indiana University Bloomington and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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inventory, supply chain, capacity, optimization, dynamic programming, stochastic analysis

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Innovation and Technology Diffusion in Competitive Supply Chains

Kelley School of Business Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Sep 2017
Ayhan Aydin and Rodney P. Parker
George Mason University - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management and Indiana University Bloomington
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research and development; supply chains; technology; competition; innovation

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Cournot Competition in Incomplete Supply Networks

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 30 May 2025
Han Zhang and Rodney P. Parker
Michigan State University - Eli Broad College of Business and Indiana University Bloomington
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Cournot competition, supply networks, incomplete networks, multitier networks

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Conveying Demand Information in Serial Supply Chains with Capacity Limits

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Dec 2021
Roman Kapuscinski and Rodney P. Parker
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Indiana University Bloomington
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capacity limits, local information, inventory, multi-echelon supply chain, incentive compatible mechanism

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Enhancing Kidney Supply Through Geographic Sharing in the United States

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jun 2017
Mazhar Arikan, Baris Ata, John Friedewald and Rodney P. Parker
University of Kansas, School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine and Indiana University Bloomington
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kidney transplantation, discrete choice model, game theory, control function approach

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On Markov Equilibria in Dynamic Inventory Competition

Operations Research, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2014) pp. 332-344
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Dec 2015
Tava Lennon Olsen and Rodney P. Parker
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School and Indiana University Bloomington
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inventory, competition, stochastic games, noncooperative games, Markov equilibrium, inventory games

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Managing a Non-Cooperative Supply Chain with Limited Capacity

Operations Research, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2011) 866-881
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015
Rodney P. Parker and Roman Kapuscinski
Indiana University Bloomington and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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inventory, capacity, supply chain, competition, Markov games

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Online Appendix to 'When Customers Anticipate Liquidation Sales: Managing Operations Under Financial Distress'

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
John R. Birge, Rodney P. Parker, Michelle Xiao Wu and S. Alex Yang
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and London Business School
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