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The Influence Prism in SMEs

A LefebvreLouis; MasonRobert; LefebvreÉlisabeth

Management Science 1997

The research proposes a model, which relates the following variables: a the CEO's perceptions of the environment, b the strategic business orientation, scanning, and structural characteristics, c t...

Competing in Product and Service

A CohenMorris; WhangSeungjin

Management Science 1997

In this paper we develop a product life-cycle model that studies a set of strategic choices facing manufacturers as they design the joint product/service bundle for a product which may require main...

Evoking information in probability assessment

Glenn J. Browne; Shawn P. Curley; Philip G. Benson

Management Science 1997

Note. Optimal Promotion Strategies

SimesterDuncan

Management Science 1997

We generalize Narasimhan's Narasimhan, Chakravarthi. 1988. Competitive promotional strategies. J. Bus.614 427-449. model of retail promotion to include multiple products and general demand function...

Catching the Wave

ZaheerAkbar; ZaheerSrilata

Management Science 1997

This paper introduces the concepts of alertness and responsiveness as key capabilities for firms in fast-moving, information-intensive environments such as global currency trading. Hypotheses drawn...

A Polyhedral Approach to the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem

FischettiMatteo; TothPaolo

Management Science 1997

Several branch-and-bound algorithms for the exact solution of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem ATSP, based on the assignment problem AP relaxation, have been proposed in the literature. Th...

Middle Management Downsizing

PinsonneaultAlain; L KraemerKenneth

Management Science 1997

Nearly all Fortune 1000 firms claim to have downsized since the early eighties, and it is argued that information technology IT is responsible for this massive downsizing. However, earlier research...

Decomposed Versus Holistic Estimates of Effort Required for Software Writing Tasks

ConnollyTerry; DeanDoug

Management Science 1997

We examine decision analysis' central decomposition principle in the context of work-time estimates of software writers. Two experiments examined the abilities of advanced programming students to...

Garbage Collection in Chicago

D EisensteinDonald; V. IyerAnanth.

Management Science 1997

We investigate the scheduling of garbage trucks in the city of Chicago. Analysis of data collected from the system shows that city blocks differ in the rate at which garbage is collected. However, ...

The road to root cause

MacDuffieJohn Paul

Management Science 1997

This paper uses case studies of shop-floor problem-solving at three automotive assembly plants to examine organizational influences on process quality improvement. Three complex quality problems-wa...

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