Research
Publications
- Kayis, E., Erhun, F. and Plambeck, E.L. (2012) Delegation vs. Control of Component Procurement under
Asymmetric Cost Information and Simple Contracts, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. [download paper] - Lee, Hau L., E.L. Plambeck, and Pamela Yatsko (2011) Improving Environmental Performance in Your Chinese Supply Chain, MIT Sloan Management Review [article link]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Q. Wang (2009) Effects of E-Waste Regulation on New Product Introduction, Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 3, March 2009, pp. 333–347. [download paper]
- Taylor, T.A. and Plambeck, E.L. (2007) Simple Relational Contracts for Capacity Investment: Price-Only vs. Quantity-Commitment Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9 94-113. [download paper] [download appendix]
- Plambeck, E.L. (2007) The Greening of Wal-Mart's Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management Review July/August 18-25. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Taylor, T.A. (2006) Partnership in a Dynamic Production System with Unobservable Actions and Noncontractible Output Management Science 52 1509-1527. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2006) Optimal Control of a High-Volume Assemble-to-Order System Mathematics of Operations Research 31 453 – 477. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2005) Optimal Control of a High-Volume Assemble-to-Order System with Guaranteed Maximum Delays and Expediting, Mathematics of Operations Research, 31, 453-477. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Taylor, T.A. (2005) Sell the Plant? The Impact of Contract Manufacturing on Innovation, Capacity, and Profitability Management Science 51 133-150. [download paper] [download appendix]
- Chen, L. and Plambeck, E.L. (2005) Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning about the Demand Distribution and Substitution Probability, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2008, pp. 236-256. [download paper] [download appendix]
- Armony, M. and Plambeck, E.L. (2005) The Impact of Duplicate Orders on Demand Estimation and Capacity Investment Management Science 51 1505-1518. [download paper]
- Armony, M., Plambeck, E.L. and Seshadri, S. (2005) Sensitivity of Optimal Capacity to Customer Impatience in an Unobservable M/M/S Queue (Why You Shouldn’t Shout at the DMV), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 19–32. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. (2005) Asymptotically Optimal Control for an Assemble-to-Order System with Capacitated Component Production and Fixed Transport Costs, Operations Research, Vol. 56, No. 5, September-October 2008, pp. 1158-1171. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L, and Taylor, T.A. (2004) Implications of Breach Remedy and Renegotiation Design for Innovation and Capacity, Management Science, October 26, 2007, [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. (2004) Optimal Leadtime Differentiation via Diffusion Approximations Operations Research 52 213-228. [download paper]
- Chen, L., E. Plambeck. (2004) Dynamic Bayesian Quantity Control When Some Customers Will Accept a Substitute. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6 103-106. [download paper]
- Taylor, T.A. and Plambeck, E.L. (2003) Supply Chain Relationships and Contracts: the Impact of Repeated Interaction on Capacity Investment and Procurement, Management Science.
Vol. 53, No. 10, October 2007, pp. 1577-1593
[download paper] - Plambeck, E.L. and Ward, A.R. (2003) Note: A Separation Principle for a Class of Assemble to Order Systems with Expediting, Operations Research, Vol. 55, No. 3, May-June 2007, pp. 603-609. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Zenios, S.A. (2003) Incentive Efficient Control of a Make-to-Stock Production System, Operations Research 51 371-386. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L, and Taylor, T.A. (2002) Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment, Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 1859-1871. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L., Kumar, S. and Harrison, J.M. (2001) A Multiclass Queue in Heavy Traffic with Throughput Time Constraints: Asymptotically Optimal Dynamic Controls, Queueing Systems 39 23-54. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Zenios, S.A. (2000) Performance-Based Incentives in a Dynamic Principal-Agent Model, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 2 240-263. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L., Hope, C. and Anderson, J. (1997) The PAGE95 Model: Integrating the Science and Economics of Global Warming, Energy Economics 19 77-101.
- Plambeck, E.L. and Hope, C. (1996) An Updated Valuation of the Impacts of Global Warming, Energy Policy 24 783-794.
- Plambeck, E.L., Fu, B.-R, Robinson, S.M., and Suri, R. (1996) Sample-path Optimization of Convex Stochastic Performance Functions, Mathematical Programming 75 137-176. [download paper]
Papers in Review Process
- Plambeck, E. L. and Q. Wang. (2012) Implications of Hyperbolic Discounting for Optimal Pricing and Information Management in Service Systems, submitted to Management Science. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E. L. and Q. Wang. (2012) Hyperbolic Discounting and Queue-Length Information Management
for Unpleasant Services that Generate Future Bene ts, submitted to Management Science. [download paper] - Keskin, N. and E.L. Plambeck (2011) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting: Allocating Emissions from Processes to Co-products. Submitted to Management Science. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. 2011. Operations Management Challenges for Some“Clean-Tech” Firms. Under revision for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Special Issue on the Environment. [download paper]
- Plambeck, E.L. and Taylor, T.A. (2011) On the Flexibility to Adapt to Co-Fluctuations in Feedstock Costs and Output Prices under revision for Management Science. [download paper]
- Islegen, O. and Plambeck, E.L. (2011) Capacity Leadership, revised and resubmitted to Management Science.
[download paper] - Plambeck, Erica L. and Terry A. Taylor. (2009) Competitors as Whistle-blowers in Enforcement of Product Standards, submitted to Management Science. [download paper] [download appendix]
