特邀论文:容量管理、投资与对冲:综述与最新进展

Commissioned Paper: Capacity Management, Investment, and Hedging: Review and Recent Developments

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management · 2003
被引 584
FT 50UTD 24ABS 3

中文导读

综述了不确定性下战略容量管理(包括容量投资规模、类型和时机)的文献,重点介绍了多决策者、多容量类型、对冲和风险厌恶的最新进展,对运营管理和金融经济学研究者有参考价值。

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on strategic capacity management concerned with determining the sizes, types, and timing of capacity investments and adjustments under uncertainty. Specific attention is given to recent developments to incorporate multiple decision makers, multiple capacity types, hedging, and risk aversion. Capacity is a measure of processing abilities and limitations and is represented as a vector of stocks of various processing resources, while investment is the change of capacity and includes expansion and contraction. After discussing general issues in capacity investment problems, the paper reviews models of capacity investment under uncertainty in three settings: The first reviews optimal capacity investment by single and multiple risk-neutral decision makers in a stationary environment where capacity remains constant. Allowing for multiple capacity types, the associated optimal capacity portfolio specifies the amounts and locations of safety capacity in a processing network. Its key feature is that it is unbalanced; i.e., regardless of how uncertainties are realized, one typically will never fully utilize all capacities. The second setting reviews the adjustment of capacity over time and the structure of optimal investment dynamics. The paper ends by reviewing how to incorporate risk aversion in capacity investment and contrasts hedging strategies involving financial versus operational means.

容量管理投资决策风险管理运营管理金融经济学