Purpose–Supply chains directly influence the differentiation and cost of a firm's products and
services and its exposure to risk. The purpose of this paper is to use secondary financial …

The use of global suppliers has increased considerably over the last three decades.
Operations management theory establishes that global sourcing requires more units of …

We find that inventory productivity strongly predicts future stock returns among a sample of
publicly listed US retailers during the period from 1985 to 2010. A zero-cost portfolio …

Firm-level sales forecasts for retailers can be improved if we incorporate cost of goods sold,
inventory, and gross margin (defined by us as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as …

Past research shows that inventory turnover varies substantially across firms as well as over
time. A significant portion of this variation can be explained by gross margin, capital …

Why Empirical Research Is Good for Operations Management, and What Is Good Empirical
Operations Management? Page 1 MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS …

In this paper, we examine the relationship between inventory levels and one-year-ahead
earnings of retailers using publicly available financial data. We use benchmarking metrics …

This paper investigates the relationship between the inventory dynamics and long-term
stock returns of a large panel of US manufacturing firms over the time period from 1991 to …

This paper examines the differences in the behaviors of high (HIT) and low inventory
turnover (LIT) retailers in responding to demand shocks. We identify quantity and price …

This paper examines how managerial short-termism can affect a firm's inventory decision
when external investors have only partial information about the firm's demand uncertainty …