Purpose: This study is focused on integrating a strategic perspective for bottleneck selection and exploitation according to the DBR methodology. The researchers developed a systematic process of four steps for the implementation of the first two steps of TOC-DBR in Make-to-Order production...

Purpose: With this work, we intend to promote research on the application of Operations Management tools in order to assist with decision-making in health crisis situations. During the first six weeks of the COVID-19 crisis in Spain, we have contacted a large number of hospital and health...

When to discharge a patient plays an important role in hospital patient flow management as well as the quality of care and patient outcomes. In this work, we develop and implement a data-integrated decision support framework to aid hospitals in managing the delicate balance between readmission...

Hypercongestion - the phenomenon that higher traffic densities can reduce throughput - is well understood at the link level, but has also been observed in a macroscopic form at the level of traffic networks; for instance, in morning rush-hour traffic into a downtown core. In this paper, we show...

We study the problem of predicting congestion risk in service systems, a factor associated with poor service experience, higher costs, and even medical risk (e.g., in ICUs). By predicting future congestion, decision- makers can initiate preventive measures such as rescheduling activities or...

Entering a new product market requires assembling a bundle of technological and market resources. Because missing a single resource may foil the entire entry effort, we argue that bottleneck resources – those most difficult to obtain or sell externally – anchor the direction of firm growth....

This paper examines efficiency in the provision and utilization of a congestible public input in a symmetric tax competition framework with wage rigidities. Despite the fact that also lump-sum taxation is available for regional governments, second-best efficiency emerges only as a special case...

Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) - where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion - where AC is...

A common issue in online dating platforms is that many users focus their attention on a subset of popular peers, which leads to congestion and thus lower matching rates. Our study examines the results of a randomized natural field experiment, wherein our corporate partner, a large online dating...

The impact of ride-hailing services on urban congestion has been difficult to disentangle due to a shortage of data and an appropriate empirical setting. Despite the preponderance of studies examining various aspects of their impact on urban mobility, such as relationship with public transit and...