Management Sciences
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Management Sciences .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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A Robust Optimization Approach for Advance Scheduling in Health Care Systems with Demand Uncertainty: Policy Insights
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-17)Patient wait times have increased significantly over the past few decades. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 40% of Canadians have experienced difficulties in receiving diagnostics tests. ... -
TimeFabric: Trusted Time for Hyperledger Fabric
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, the interest in blockchain technology has surged tremendously. Numerous applications have been proposed in the field of finance, healthcare, and supply chain over the last decade. And, ... -
ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE IN THE INNOVATING FIRM: SIZE, R&D AND SECTOR EFFECTS
(World Scientific, 2019-08-05)This study investigates whether organisational innovation has positive impacts on small and medium enterprises, using three waves of the South Korean innovation survey. While correcting for endogeneity, we find that the ... -
Optimal inventory decisions when offering layaway
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)This paper presents an inventory management policy for a retailer offering a layaway programme. Layaway is a service provided by retailers that allows budget constrained consumers who have sufficiently high valuations to ... -
Optimal inventory decisions for a risk-averse retailer when offering layaway
(Elsevier, 2020-07-01)Layaway allows economically disadvantaged budget-constrained consumers to purchase expensive items through amortized payments and nominal program fees, as opposed to using high-interest financing options such as credit ... -
Open Shortest Path First Routing Under Random Early Detection
(Wiley, 2018-03-01)In this article, we consider a variant of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing that accounts for Random Early Detection (RED), an Active Queue Management method for backbone networks. In the version of OSPF we consider ... -
Promoting Resiliency in Emergency Communication Networks: A Network Interdiction Stylized Initial Case Study Model of a Miami-Dade County Network
(IGI Global, 2017)Police, fire, and emergency personnel rely on wireless networks to serve the public. Whether it is during a natural disaster, or just an ordinary calendar day, wireless nodes of varying types form the infrastructure that ... -
The impact of government subsidy on supply chains’ sustainability innovation
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)Motivated by recently observed industry and government practices, in this paper we endogenize government subsidy in a research joint venture (RJV). In particular, we present a three-player game in which a government ... -
When does eco-efficiency rebound or backfire? An analytical model
(Elsevier, 2021-04-16)It is known that an eco-efficiency strategy, which saves resources in the production process, may be offset by a rebound effect; it may even backfire. Less known are the exact conditions under which eco-efficiency rebounds ... -
Determining the causality between U.S. presidential prediction markets and global financial markets
(Wiley, 2020-08-14)Prediction markets trade securities with final prices contingent on the outcome of future events, for example, who will win the next political election. We show how the outcome of a United States presidential election, ... -
Measuring Haptic Experience: Evidence for the HX model through scale development
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Haptic technology allows one to receive tactile information through the sense of touch. Increasingly, designers and researchers are employing haptic feedback with the aim to improve user experience (UX). While they see the ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator’s tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
The Implementation Continuous Improvement Program: a Case Study for a Canadian Job Shop Manufacturer
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)The purpose of this thesis is to study and to understand the impact of implementing a Continuous Improvement (CI) program with employees. The study has covered ideas generated by employees, and their impact on the ideas’ ... -
On the Road to Making Science of “Art”: Risk Bias in Market Scoring Rules
(The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2018-06)We study market scoring rule (MSR) prediction markets in the presence of risk-averse or risk-seeking agents that have unknown yet bounded risk preferences. It is well known that if agents can be prescreened, then MSRs can ... -
Mobile commerce and device specific perceived risk
(Springer, 2016)This study examines the role of perceived risk and access device type on consumers’ on-line purchase decisions. We use a two-step hurdle approach to estimate consumer behavior. In the first step, the decision of whether ... -
P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers' Valuation Uncertainty
(Wiley, 2017-03)Can peer‐to‐peer (P2P) marketplaces benefit traditional supply chains when consumers may experience valuation risk? P2P marketplaces can mitigate consumers' risk by allowing them to trade mismatched goods; yet, they also ... -
Incentive compatibility in prediction markets: Costly actions and external incentives
(Elsevier, 2019-01)We consider a multi-round prediction market in which two agents, Alice and Bob, are trading on an event on which each may take action to influence its outcome. The existing literature assumes that there is no net difference ... -
Eco-Innovation with Opportunity of Licensing and Threat of Imitation
(Elsevier, 2017-03-20)We consider the product and process innovation effort decisions a sustainable (eco) manufacturer (innovator/leader) makes in the presence of a traditional manufacturer (imitator/follower) who may procure a license or imitate ... -
Data Envelopment Analysis may Obfuscate Corporate Financial Data: Using Support Vector Machine and Data Envelopment Analysis to Predict Corporate Failure for Nonmanufacturing Firms
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Corporate failure prediction has drawn numerous scholars’ attention because of its usefulness in corporate risk management, as well as in regulating corporate operational status. Most research on this topic focuses on ... -
"It felt like I was part of the data": Comparing Mouse, Touch, and Physical Interaction with Visualizations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)With my two exploratory studies I contribute a deeper understanding of the different experiences people have when manipulating data representations using mouse, touch, and physical interaction. To uncover experiences rather ...
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