Panos Kouvelis

Washington University in St. Louis

Emerson Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology; Director of The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation

One Brookings Drive

Campus Box 1156

St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

United States

http://www.panoskouvelis.info

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1.

Bespoke Supply Chain Resilience: The Gap between Theory and Practice

Journal of Operations Management (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2023
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kobe University and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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Supply chain resilience, supply chain segmentation, supply chain integration, supply chain archetypes, grounded theory

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A Supply Chain Theory of Factoring and Reverse Factoring

Management Science (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2020
Panos Kouvelis and Fasheng Xu
Washington University in St. Louis and University of Connecticut - Department of Operations & Information Management
Downloads 1,473 (27,646)
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Supply chain finance, recourse/non-recourse factoring, reverse factoring, accounts receivable, credit rating, credit risk, liquidity risk, payment extension

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Putting Supply Chain Resilience Theory into Practise

Management and Business Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3742616
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Dec 2020
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kobe University and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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Supply Chain, resilience, risk management, disruption, agility, manufacturing, implementation challenges

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Automotive Procurement Under Opaque Prices: Theory with Evidence from the BMW Supply Chain

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 3464595
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2023
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis and IE Business School - IE University
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asymmetric information, risk management, commodity, automotive, empirical

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OM Forum -- Benchmarking Global Production Sourcing Decisions: Where and Why Firms Offshore and Reshore

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2791373, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-28
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2017
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kobe University, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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manufacturing location decisions, offshoring, reshoring

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Understanding Global Supply Chain & Resilience: Theory and Practice

Creating Values with Operations and Analytics: A Tribute to the Contributions of Professor Morris Cohen, 2022, Springer, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 4124589
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jun 2022
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kobe University and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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Global supply chain design, supply chain resilience, resilience metrics, implementation challenges, supply chain archetypes, supply chain survey, reshoring

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Research at the Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management (iFORM): Recent Contributions and Future Directions

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3054711
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Oct 2017
Volodymyr Babich and Panos Kouvelis
Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business and Washington University in St. Louis
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Interface of operations, finance, and risk management, supply chain finance, integrated risk management, crowdfunding, supply chains and asset pricing, trade credit, reverse factoring, operational hedges, financial hedges, and future research

8.

Cash Hedging in a Supply Chain

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Oct 2017
Panos Kouvelis, Xiaole Wu and Yixuan Xiao
Washington University in St. Louis, Fudan University - School of Management and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Hedging, Supply Chain, Risk Management, Flexibility

Revisit of AAA Excellence of Global Value Chains: Robustness, Resilience and Realignment

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Morris A. Cohen and Panos Kouvelis
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Washington University in St. Louis
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Revisit of AAA Excellence of Global Value Chains: Robustness, Resilience and Realignment

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Jan 2021
Morris A. Cohen and Panos Kouvelis
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Washington University in St. Louis
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Supply Chain, Robustness, Resiliency, Realignment, Strategy

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Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Pricing

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Ehsan Bolandifar, Zhong Chen, Panos Kouvelis and Weihua Zhou
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Management and Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Zhejiang University
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reward-based crowdfunding, quality signaling, price commitment

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Pricing, Quality, and Stocking Decisions in a Manufacturer-Centric Dual-Channel

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2021
Xiaomeng Guo, Panos Kouvelis and Danko Turcic
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
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Benchmarking Global Production Sourcing Decisions: Where and Why Firms Offshore and Reshore

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3434284, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 3434284
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Jan 2020
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kobe University, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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manufacturing location decisions, offshoring, reshoring

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Prophet Inequalities and Approximation Schemes for a New Class of Overbooking Problems in Container Shipping

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2024
Jacob Feldman, Panos Kouvelis and Yukai Huang
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School
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Container shipping, overbooking, competive ratio

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Agricultural Supply Chains in Emerging Markets: Competition and Cooperation under Correlated Yields

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2023
Jian Li, Panos Kouvelis and Maqbool Dada
Northeastern Illinois University, Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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commodity farming, cotton, land allocation, supply chain configuration, auction, government incentives

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Supply Chain Contracting in Environments with Volatile Input Prices and Frictions

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Panos Kouvelis, Danko Turcic and Wenhui Zhao
Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management
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Supply chain management, risk management, interface of operations and finance

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Vertical Information Sharing in the Presence of Operational Efficiency Investment Opportunities

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2024
Puping (Phil) Jiang and Panos Kouvelis
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management and Washington University in St. Louis
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Information sharing, operational investment, cash hedging, supply chain management

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Managing Operations of a Hog Farm Facing Volatile Markets: Inventory and Selling Strategies

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Panos Kouvelis, Ye Liu, Yunzhe Qiu and Danko Turcic
Washington University in St. Louis, Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, Peking University - Department of Information Management and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
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Effective and Necessary: Individual Supplier Behavior in Revenue Sharing and Wholesale Contracts

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2016
Julie Niederhoff and Panos Kouvelis
Syracuse University and Washington University in St. Louis
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supply chain coordination, behavioral operations, behavior, wholesale, revenue sharing, experimental

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Reshoring under tariff uncertainty and competition

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2022
Panos Kouvelis, Xiao Tan and Sammi Tang
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School, Students and University of Miami - Department of Management
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global supply chain; reshoring; Newsvendor Networks; tariff uncertainty; competition

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Why Operational Context Matters: Realizing the Full Potential of Supply Chain Resilience Surveys

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 4074109
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 May 2022
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management and Washington University in St. Louis
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supply chain resilience, consulting surveys, supply chain archetypes, operational characteristics

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Supporting Operations with Financial Hedging: Cash Hedging Versus Cost Hedging in an Automotive Industry

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Nov 2020
Panos Kouvelis and Danko Turcic
Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
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Horizontal Outsourcing and Price Competition: The Role of Sole Sourcing Commitment

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2022
Panos Kouvelis, Qiaohai Hu, Xiaomeng Guo and Guang Xiao
Washington University in St. Louis, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
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Horizontal Outsourcing, Bertrand Competition, Sole Sourcing Commitment, Dual Sourcing, Consumer Surplus

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Long-Term Service Agreement in Electricity Supply Chain with Renewable Energy Penetration

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2023
Panos Kouvelis, Hirofumi Matsuo, Yixuan Xiao and Quan Yuan
Washington University in St. Louis, Kobe University, Washington State University and Zhejiang University - School of Management
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long-term service agreement (LTSA), power generation, renewable energy, equivalent operating hours (EOH), electricity supply chain

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Approximation Schemes for the Joint Inventory Selection and Online Resource Allocation Problem

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Nov 2021
University of Richmond - Robins School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Yonsei University and Washington University in St. Louis
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An Empirically Grounded Analytical (EGA) Approach to Hog Farm Finishing Stage Management: Deep Reinforcement Learning as Decision Support and Managerial Learning Tool

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
Panos Kouvelis, Ye Liu and Danko Turcic
Washington University in St. Louis, Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
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The Value of Operational Flexibility in the Presence of Input and Output Price Uncertainties with Oil Refining Applications

Management Science, 2014 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2014
Lingxiu Dong, Panos Kouvelis and Xiaole Wu
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University - School of Management
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operational flexibility, oil refining, value of flexibility, stochastic programming

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Generous, Spiteful, or Profit Maximizing Suppliers in the Wholesale Price Contract: A Behavioral Study

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2016
Julie Niederhoff and Panos Kouvelis
Syracuse University and Washington University in St. Louis
Downloads 161 (385,580)
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Behavioral Operations, wholesale price, fairness, supply chain, newsvendor, behavior, newsvender

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Managing material shortages in project supply chains: inventories, time buffers and supplier flexibility

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2023
Xingxing Chen, Panos Kouvelis and Yu Amy Xia
University of Richmond - Robins School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis and Northeastern University - Management Information Systems Area
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project supply chains, wholesale price contracts, project due date, supply flexibility, flexible contracts, time buffers.

29.

On Co-opetitive Supply Partnerships with End-Product Rivals: Information Asymmetry, Dual Sourcing and Supply Market Efficiency

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Seung Hwan Jung and Panos Kouvelis
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Washington University in St. Louis
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supply partnership, co-opetition, sourcing strategy, signaling game, information asymmetry

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Delegation versus Control in Supply Chain Procurement Under Competition

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Sep 2015
Ehsan Bolandifar, Panos Kouvelis and Fuqiang Zhang
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Financing Inventories with an Investment Efficiency Objective: ROI-Maximising Newsvendor, Bank Loans and Trade Credit Contracts

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021
Panos Kouvelis and Yunzhe Qiu
Washington University in St. Louis and Peking University - Department of Information Management
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Return on investment, trade credit, supplier financing, newsvendor

32.

Flexibility Value of Reshoring Capacity under Policy Uncertainty and Domestic Competition

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4497854
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Jul 2023
Panos Kouvelis, Xiao Tan and Sammi Tang
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School, Students and University of Miami - Department of Management
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global supply chain, reshoring, cost uncertainty, competition, industrial policy

33.

Hedging Commodity Procurement in a Bilateral Supply Chain

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Mar 2015
Danko Turcic, Panos Kouvelis and Ehsan Bolandifar
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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Horizontal Coordinating Contracts in the Semiconductor Industry

European Journal of Operational Research 237(3) 887–897
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Xiaole Wu, Panos Kouvelis, Hirofumi Matsuo and Hiroki Sano
Fudan University - School of Management, Washington University in St. Louis, Kobe University and University of Texas at Austin
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supply chain management, horizontal capacity coordination, reservation contract, wholesale price contract in horizontal setting, sourcing structure

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Paradoxes & Mysteries in Virus-Infected Supply Chains: Hidden Bottlenecks, Changing Consumer Behaviors, and Other Non-Usual Suspects

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Jan 2021
Panos Kouvelis
Washington University in St. Louis
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supply chain, pandemic, essential goods, shortages

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On Co-opetitive Supply Partnerships with End-Product Rivals: Information Asymmetry, Dual Sourcing and Supply Market Efficiency

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Mar 2021
Seung Hwan Jung and Panos Kouvelis
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Washington University in St. Louis
Downloads 91 (593,048)

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supply partnership, co-opetition, sourcing strategy, signaling game, information asymmetry

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Component Procurement under Unobservable Contracts

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Ehsan Bolandifar and Panos Kouvelis
Peking University HSBC Business School and Washington University in St. Louis
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Component procurement, unobservable contract, quantity discount, market competition, strategic supplier

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Responsive Pricing Newsvendor Networks with Discretionary Commonality

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Jan 2017
Lingxiu Dong, Panos Kouvelis and Zhongjun Tian
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of International Business Administration
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newsvendor network; responsive pricing; inventory procurement; capacity investment

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Product Rollover Strategies: Dynamic Decision Model Motivated By The Hybrid Seed Agribusiness

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Jun 2024
Panos Kouvelis and Jian Li
Washington University in St. Louis and Northeastern Illinois University - College of Business and Management
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product rollover strategies, product launch timing, dual-rollover, solo-rollover, newsvendor inventories

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Pricing Strategies for Processing Intermediaries in Agri-chains with Side Markets for Harvested Crops: Paradox of Ex-Post Pricing Flexibility

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Jan 2025
Panos Kouvelis, Jian Li and Guang Xiao
Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern Illinois University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
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pricing, agricultural supply chain, land allocation, pricing flexibility, random yield

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Supplier Diversification Strategies in the Presence of Yield Uncertainty and Buyer Competition

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, volume 13, issue 4, 2011 [10.1287/msom.1110.0337] (forthcoming), University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4906759
Posted: 30 Aug 2024
Sammi Tang and Panos Kouvelis
University of Miami - Department of Management and Washington University in St. Louis

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supply uncertainty, random yield, Cournot competition, dual sourcing, equilibrium

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On Optimal Expediting Policy for Supply Systems with Uncertain Lead-Times

Production and Operations Management, volume 21, issue 2, 2012 [10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01265.x], University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4906758
Posted: 30 Aug 2024
Panos Kouvelis and Sammi Tang
Washington University in St. Louis and University of Miami - Department of Management

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supply uncertainty, random lead-time, lead-time information, expediting, safety lead-time

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Pay-Back-Revenue-Sharing Contract in Coordinating Supply Chains with Random Yield

Production and Operations Management, volume 23, issue 12, 2014 [10.1111/poms.12240], University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4906754
Posted: 29 Aug 2024
Sammi Tang and Panos Kouvelis
University of Miami - Department of Management and Washington University in St. Louis

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supply chain coordination, yield uncertainty, demand uncertainty

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Soft Order Commitment in Supply Chains: Role of Penalties and Rationing Rules

Decision Sciences, volume 50, issue 2, 2019 [10.1111/deci.12327], University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 4906745
Posted: 29 Aug 2024
Zhili Tian, Sammi Tang and Panos Kouvelis
University of Houston - Downtown, University of Miami - Department of Management and Washington University in St. Louis

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Pareto improvement, Penalty Contract, Soft Order, and Supply chain coordination

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Clinical Trials for New Drug Development: Optimal Investment and Application

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2873859
Posted: 28 Nov 2016
Panos Kouvelis, Joseph Milner and Zhili Tian
Washington University in St. Louis, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Houston - Downtown

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Pharmaceutical Drug Development, Clinical Trial, R&D Project Management, Optimal Investment

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On Reform Intensity Under Uncertainty

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS, Vol. 25 No. 3, 1997
Posted: 16 May 1998
Simon Johnson, Panos Kouvelis and Vikas Sinha
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center, Washington University in St. Louis and IBM Corporation

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