{"id":6,"date":"2015-10-01T02:46:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/publications\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:23:41","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Alan, Y., M. Kurtulu\u015f, A. Nakkas. (2026). Planogram Design in the Presence of Store Brands and Shelf Display Fees<\/a>. Production and Operations Management. <\/em>35(5), 2019-2036.<\/li>\n
  2. Alan, Y., M. Kurtulu\u015f, A. Nakkas. (2024). Retail Category Management with Slotting Fees<\/a>. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>.<\/em> 26<\/strong>(3), 1119\u20131136.<\/li>\n
  3. Kurtulu\u015f, M., A. Nakkas, and S. \u00dclk\u00fc. (2022). Allocation of Operational Decisions in Retail Supply Chains. IISE Transactions, 54<\/strong>(10), 976-987.<\/li>\n
  4. Kurtulu\u015f, M., R. C. Savaskan, C. Wang. (2020). Drivers and Implications of Direct-Store-Delivery in Distribution Channels<\/a>. Production and Operations Management,\u00a0<\/em>29 (11), 2621\u20132636.<\/li>\n
  5. Nakkas, A., Y. Alan, M. Kurtulu\u015f. (2020). Category Captainship in the Presence of Retail Competition<\/a>.\u00a0Production and Operations Management, 29(2), 263-280.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Alan, Y., M. Kurtulu\u015f, C. Wang. (2018). The Role of Store Brand Spillover in a Retailer’s Category Management Strategy<\/a>.\u00a0Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>, 21(3), 620-635.<\/li>\n
  7. Alan, Y., J. Dotson, and M. Kurtulu\u015f. (2017). On the Competitive and Collaborative Implications of Category Captainship<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of Marketing<\/em>. 81(4), 127-143.<\/li>\n
  8. Galbreth, M., M. Kurtulu\u015f, and M. Shor. (2015). How Collaborative Forecasting Can Reduce Forecast Accuracy<\/a>.\u00a0Operations Research Letters<\/em>.\u00a043\u00a0(4), 349-353.<\/li>\n
  9. Kurtulu\u015f, M., S. Ulku, J. Dotson, and A. Nakkas. (2014). The Impact of Category Captainship on Breadth and Appeal of Retail Assortment<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of Retailing<\/em>.\u00a090\u00a0(3), 379-392.<\/li>\n
  10. Kurtulu\u015f, M., A. Nakkas, and S. Ulku. (2014). The Value of Category Captainship in the Presence of Manufacturer Competition<\/a>.\u00a0Production and Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a023\u00a0(3), 420–430.<\/li>\n
  11. Kurtulu\u015f, M., S. Ulku, and L.B. Toktay. (2012). The Value of Collaborative Forecasting in Supply Chains<\/a>. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a014\u00a0(1), 82-98. Winter 2012. \u00a0(Finalist in the EURO\/INFORMS 2003 Management Science Strategic Innovation Competition on Market Coordination in Supply Chain Management.)<\/li>\n
  12. Wang, T., A Atasu and M. Kurtulu\u015f. (2012). A Multi-Ordering Newsvendor Model with Dynamic Forecast Evolution<\/a>.\u00a0Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a014\u00a0(3), pp.472-484<\/li>\n
  13. Kurtulu\u015f, M., A. Nakkas. (2011). Retail Assortment Planning under Category Captainship<\/a>.\u00a0Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a013\u00a0(1), pp.124-142. Winter 2011. (Awarded the ICI-Unilever research grant for \u20ac15,000)<\/li>\n
  14. Kurtulu\u015f, M., L.B. Toktay. (2011). Category Captainship vs. Retailer Category Management under Limited Retail Shelf Space<\/a>.\u00a0Production and Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a020\u00a0(1), pp.47-56. January\/February 2011. (This paper won the Wickham Skinner Award for the Best Unpublished Paper at POMS in 2006).<\/li>\n
  15. Kurtulu\u015f, M., L.B. Toktay. (2004). Category Captainship: Who Wins, who Loses?<\/a>\u00a0ECR Journal<\/em>.\u00a04\u00a0(2), Winter 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    RESEARCH IN PROGRESS<\/h2>\n
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    1. \u00a0On the Strategic Implications of Store Brand Sourcing (with Yasin Alan and Alexander Maslov). Reject and resubmit at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    2. The Strategic Role of Store Brands Under Retail Competition: Implications for Retailer and Manufacturer Profits (with Yasin Alan, Alexander Maslov, and Chunlin Wang). Working Paper.<\/li>\n
    3. Costly Information Design in Retail Supply Chains (with Sina Khorasani and Yasin Alan). Working Paper.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS<\/h2>\n

      Kurtulu\u015f, M. “Collaborative Forecasting in Retail Supply Chains.”\u00a0Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management<\/em> edited by Albert Ha and Christopher Tang. Springer, 2017, 39-61.<\/p>\n

      Kurtulu\u015f, M., L.B. Toktay. \u201cCategory Captainship Practices in the Retail Industry\u201d Chap. 5 in\u00a0Retail Supply Chain Management. Vol. 122, edited by Narendra Agarwal and Stephen Smith. International Series in Operations Research &amp; Management Science. Springer. (Revised for the 2nd Edition of the Book)<\/p>\n

      OTHER PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\n

      Patrinley, J. R., Berkowitz, S. T., Zakria, D., Totten, D. J., Kurtulus, M., Drolet, B. J. (2020) Lessons from operations management to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Medical Systems. 44:129.<\/p>\n

      Anisimov V.V., and M. Kurtulu\u015f. (2001). Markov retrial queuing models in light traffic conditions. Cybernetics and System Analysis, 36 (6).<\/p>\n

      Supply Chain Collaboration in the Retail Industry (in Turkish), Dergi L, September 2004.<\/p>\n

      Category Management and Category Adviser Arrangement: Consumer Impact with B. Toktay in the 11th International EurOMA Proc., Fontainebleau, FRANCE, June 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Alan, Y., M. Kurtulu\u015f, A. Nakkas. (2026). Planogram Design in the Presence of Store Brands and Shelf Display Fees. Production and Operations Management. 35(5), 2019-2036. Alan, Y., M. Kurtulu\u015f, A. Nakkas. (2024). Retail Category Management with Slotting Fees. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 26(3), 1119\u20131136. Kurtulu\u015f, M., A. Nakkas, and S. \u00dclk\u00fc. (2022). Allocation of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4577,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[4,5,9,10,7,6,8],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-category-captainship","tag-category-management","tag-collaborative-forecasting","tag-cpfr","tag-retail-supply-chains","tag-retailing","tag-supplier-retailer-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/muminkurtulus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}