The Shape of Uncertainty in Revenue Management.
Working Paper
Pearson, M. The Shape of Uncertainty in Revenue Management)
Pearson, M. The Shape of Uncertainty in Revenue Management
The revenue management problem we address is traditionally posed by the budget airlines. These airlines do not tend to have protected classes but instead use dynamic pricing t...
Innovation and connectivity in northern european technical cooperation networks
Journal Article
Pearson, M., & Cabras, I. (2014)
Innovation and connectivity in northern european technical cooperation networks. International Journal of Innovation Management, 18(4), 1450022. https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919614500224
The rationale and policy proposed by two collaborating projects is to increase innovation through improved connectivity among SMEs within northern European supply chains. To i...
Networks in family business: a multi-rational approach
Journal Article
Seaman, C., McQuaid, R., & Pearson, M. (2014)
Networks in family business: a multi-rational approach. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 10, 523-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-014-0297-4
Current research on networks in family businesses has approached the topic from a mono-rational perspective where the family, business and social networks are each considered ...
Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs.
Working Paper
Pearson, M. Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs)
Pearson, M. Network Equilibrium and the Spread of Innovation in Technologically Cooperating European SMEs
European technical cooperation data from a recent large survey on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is used to formulate a proxy network of country typical SMEs (CTSMEs) and...
Value chain management: an illustration using variability mapping and decision frontier analysis.
Conference Proceeding
Pearson, M. (2013)
Value chain management: an illustration using variability mapping and decision frontier analysis
We address uncertainty and confusion in value chain management through the use of recently developed phase plane and decision frontier analysis. The new methodology enables th...
Gatekeepers and Bridges: Technical Cooperation, Innovation and Trans-Regional Brokerage in European SME Networks
Working Paper
Pearson, M. (2013)
Gatekeepers and Bridges: Technical Cooperation, Innovation and Trans-Regional Brokerage in European SME Networks
We study the structures of European technical cooperation networks using social network analysis to examine ways in which some countries’ companies have high reported innovati...
Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis.
Working Paper
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis)
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis
A simple value chain is modeled by a contractor (dual operator) making an agreement with a customer (primal operator) to complete a project in a number of stages monitored wit...
Dynamic networks and behavior: separating selection from influence.
Journal Article
Steglich, C., Snijders, T., & Pearson, M. (2010)
Dynamic networks and behavior: separating selection from influence. Sociological Methodology, 40, 329-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9531.2010.01225.x
A current problem in the analysis of behavioral dynamics, given a simultaneously evolving social network, is the difficulty of separating effects of partner selection from eff...
Process control in agile supply chain network
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Masson, R., & Swain, A. (2010)
Process control in agile supply chain network. International Journal of Production Economics, 128, 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.01.027
The work comprises a new theoretical development applied to aid decision making in an increasingly important commercial sector. Agile supply, where small volumes of high margi...
Decision frontiers in supply chain networks.
Book Chapter
Pearson, M. (2008)
Decision frontiers in supply chain networks. In A. Dwivedi, & T. Butcher (Eds.), Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management: Integrating critical perspectives in theory and practice, 137-150. Palgrave MacMillan
We outline a new approach to the analysis of supply chains which uncovers a duality between networks as knowledge structures and networks as decision-making structures. The wo...