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Heuristic Algorithms for Capital Budgeting Decisions in Multi-Division Firms
This paper presents two versions of a heuristic algorithm to solve a model of the capital budgeting problem in a multi-division firm. These algorithms allow a final allocation of the budget to projects to be found in two information exchanges…
Horizontal Integration in Energy: Organizational and Technological Considerations
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How to Develop Nuclear Power While Limiting Its Dangers: Proposed Chances in the International Nuclear System
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Implementation Research in OR/MS and MIS: Description versus Prescription
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Implications of Product Portfolio Analysis for Strategic Competitive Intelligence
Product portfolio analysis is an increasingly popular framework for strategic planning within multiproduct corporations. This paper explores the impact of this trend on the nature and role of strategic competitive intelligence designed to support…
Information Environment Perception and Information Processing Behavior: An Empirical Investigation
This study investigates the relationship between integrative complexity of managers’ perception of their information environment and the volume, breadth, and balance of their use of information sources. Twenty-nine portfolio managers participated…
Initial Observations on a Pioneer Cohort: 1974 Women MBAs
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Intermittent Production Scheduling: Practical Formulations, Relaxation, and Decomposition Procedures
Intermittent production scheduling encompasses the classical job shop and project scheduling problems. Viewed from the perspective of the researcher, these complex problems require some simplifying assumptions to improve our ability to design…
Money, Income, and Sunspots: Measuring Economic Relationships and the Effects of Differencing
Various techniques for estimating linear relationships between economic time series are considered. We argue that many economic models should be estimated between the changes of the variables, rather than the levels of the variables. Examples…
Multi-Attribute Approaches for Product Concept Evaluation and Generation: A Critical Review
Multi-attribute research in marketing seeks an understanding of the structure of customer decisions with respect to the market offerings of a firm and its competitors. Through such understanding the firm seeks to evaluate and/or design its…
On Distributional Restrictions for Two Fund Separation
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Organizational Entitativity: The Problem of Boundaries, Units, and Loose Coupling
Before we can apply organizational theories to social aggregates, their status as entities must be evaluated. The degree to which a social aggregate is a system may be assessed using common fate, similarity and proximity as variables which…
Organizational Structure and Economic Performance: A Test of the Multidivisional Hypothesis
This paper empirically investigates the proposition that the organization and operation of the large enterprise along “M-Form” multidivisional lines favors goal pursuit and least cost behavior more nearly associated with the neoclassical profit…
Overseas Research and Development by U.S.-Based Firms
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Phased Decision Strategies: Sequels to an Initial Screening
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Regulatory and Nonregulatory Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs
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Sequential Decision Problems With Expected Utility Criteria. III: Upper And Lower Transience
This paper concerns sequential decision problems with expected utility criteria. A class of such problems, which combines and extends the standard cases of transient, positive and negative dynamic programming, is proposed and analyzed. The…