A Review of Choice Modeling in the Marketing-Operations Management Interface

31 Pages Posted: 16 Aug 2017

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Andres Musalem

Universidad de Chile

Marcelo Olivares

University of Chile; University of Chile - Engineering Department

Sharad Borle

Rice University

Hai Che

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

Christopher T. Conlon

Columbia University

Karan Girotra

Cornell Tech; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Sachin Gupta

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Kanishka Misra

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Julie H. Mortimer

Boston College; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Gustavo Vulcano

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business

Fanyin Zheng

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Date Written: August 4, 2017

Abstract

The operations management discipline has made substantial progress developing analytical models to help firms make tactical and strategic decisions (e.g., inventory control, assortment planning). The application of these models to real contexts requires several inputs, such as an estimate of the benefits and costs of various levels of the operational decision under study. It is often the case that the associated benefits depend on how customers react to changes in the operational decisions being modeled. This in turn requires an empirical validation of the consumer model that serves as an input when making operation decisions. Bringing together researchers from economics, marketing and operations management, this paper reviews and discusses recent findings in terms of modeling and empirically validating consumer choices in response to operational decisions. We structure this discussion along four major operational decisions and issues: product variety (including inventory and assortment), service capacity, pricing and supply chain coordination. For each of these areas, we review recent work and identify challenges that we believe are important to address in future research aimed at connecting operations management research to practice.

Keywords: Choice Models, Marketing-Operations Interface, Econometrics, Empirical Research

Suggested Citation

Musalem, Andres and Olivares, Marcelo and Borle, Sharad and Che, Hai and Conlon, Christopher T. and Girotra, Karan and Gupta, Sachin and Misra, Kanishka and Mortimer, Julie H. and Vulcano, Gustavo and Zheng, Fanyin, A Review of Choice Modeling in the Marketing-Operations Management Interface (August 4, 2017). Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-60, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-85, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3018732 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3018732

Andres Musalem (Contact Author)

Universidad de Chile ( email )

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Marcelo Olivares

University of Chile ( email )

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University of Chile - Engineering Department ( email )

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Sharad Borle

Rice University ( email )

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Hai Che

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business ( email )

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Christopher T. Conlon

Columbia University ( email )

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Karan Girotra

Cornell Tech ( email )

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Cornell SC Johnson College of Business ( email )

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Sachin Gupta

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ( email )

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United States

Kanishka Misra

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business ( email )

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Julie H. Mortimer

Boston College ( email )

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Gustavo Vulcano

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business ( email )

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Argentina

Fanyin Zheng

Columbia University - Columbia Business School ( email )

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New York, NY 10027
United States

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