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Intermittent Production Scheduling: Practical Formulations, Relaxation, and Decomposition Procedures

Charles A. Holloway (1936 – 2026), Rosser Nelson
1977

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…

Management and Financing of Exploration

Robert Wilson
1977

Abstract not available.

Money, Income, and Sunspots: Measuring Economic Relationships and the Effects of Differencing

Charles I. Plosser, G. William Schwert
1977

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

Allan D. Shocker, V. “Seenu” Srinivasan
1977

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 Decentralization, Incentives and Control

Bengt Holmstrom
1977

Abstract not available.

On Distributional Restrictions for Two Fund Separation

Robert H. Litzenberger, Krishna Ramaswamy
1977

Abstract not available.

Organizational Entitativity: The Problem of Boundaries, Units, and Loose Coupling

William G. Ouchi, Alan L. Wilkins
1977

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

Henry Ogden Armour, David J. Teece
1977

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

Edwin Mansfield, David J. Teece, Anthony Romeo
1977

Abstract not available.

Phased Decision Strategies: Sequels to an Initial Screening

Peter Wright, Fredrick Barbour
1977

Abstract not available.

Regulatory and Nonregulatory Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs

Alain C. Enthoven, Roger G. Noll
1977

Abstract not available.

Research on Ad-Stimulated Thought Processes

Peter Wright
1977

Abstract not available.

Sequential Decision Problems With Expected Utility Criteria. III: Upper And Lower Transience

David M. Kreps
1977

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…

Sex Differences in Economists' Incomes

Myra H. Strober, Barbara B. Reagan
1977

Abstract not available.

Strategic Intelligence Systems

David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025), Charles Weinberg
1977

Abstract not available.

Supervisor-Worker Relations: A Study of Supervisory Practices in Japanese and American Firms in the United States

Richard T. Johnson, Mary Ann Maguire
1977

Supervisory methods of Japanese managed firms in the ‘United States are compared with those of American firms, matched by industry. Findings suggest that supervisors of Japanese firms (all of whom were Americans) were more involved in counseling…

Taxation and the Incidence of Homeownership Across Income Groups

Howard Sosin, Robert Litzenberger
1977

Abstract not available.

The Analysis of Seasonal Economic Models

Charles I. Plosser
1977

Many important insights can be obtained about economic relationships and seasonality when an economic model contains an explicit specification of the mechanism generating seasonality in the endogenous variables. Unfortunately, determining the…