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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…
Sex Differences in Economists' Incomes
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Social Structure and Organizational Type: The Case of the Integrated Organization in an Atomized Society
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Strategic Intelligence Systems
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Supervisor-Worker Relations: A Study of Supervisory Practices in Japanese and American Firms in the United States
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
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The Analysis of Seasonal Economic Models
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…
The Comparative Impact of Different Organization Development Techniques*
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