In my dissertation, I aim to understand incentives in U.S. healthcare operations based on my collaboration with various health organizations. In my first essay, I investigate the underlying operational and economic drives behind physicians’ test-ordering behavior in an outpatient setting, motivated by a collaborative study with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Eye Center. I model ...

The pricing strategy of agricultural products not only affects the product demand and purchasing behavior consumers, but also income distribution node enterprises overall profit supply chain. This paper studies chain with farmer cooperatives as core enterprise. Considering heterogeneous this introduces degree characteristics establishes a dynamic model for under decentralized decision-making ce...

We set up a two level supply chain model which consists of one manufacturer and two retailers in this paper. Necessities as the main research object, we develop the nonlinear demand function of products which is more related to the reality. In order to increase the performance of whole supply chain in the decentralized decision, we introduce revenue sharing mechanism in this paper. Through nume...

According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (September 2007), we have the following description for supply chain management: “supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel pa...

In this study I analyze the implications of contractual innovation in verticallyseparated industries, using the example of the video rental industry. Prior to 1998, video stores obtained inventory from movie distributors using simple linear pricing contracts. In 1998, revenue-sharing contracts, which include inventory restrictions, were widely adopted. I investigate the effect of using revenue-...