This dissertation develops optimal/near-optimal allocation and replenishment policies for a multi-level, periodic-review, fixed-route logistics system which is comprised of a Logistics Center and several non-identical retailers located along a fixed route. The Logistics Center coordinates the...

Power is one of the key components in understanding and analyzing global production and is central to the analytical frameworks of both GVCs and GPNs. By focusing on firms' power within GPNs, we are able to draw a novel analytical link between the governance structures of GVCs and network...

Management of critical resources having uncertain consumption rates is perhaps the most common challenge encountered by businesses in discharging their numerous functions, e.g., inventory distribution, marketing, finance, production, personnel, etc. It involves making two key decisions...

The operations strategy literature has identified four primary dimensions on which a firm competes with another. These are: price, quality, flexibility, and delivery dependability. Of these, quality is perhaps the most critical dimension in terms of the influence a competitive dimension...

This paper reviews all Game Theory (GT) articles published in the three leading, US-based, OR/MS journals: Operations Research, Management Science, and Interfaces starting with Vol. 1, No. 1 of each. The articles were first subdivided into Theory or Applications categories. The Applications...

This work takes an introspective look at the trends, patterns, and directions taken by the researchers in the field of management of healthcare technology (MHT) during the period 1979-97. A total of 333 publications are classified in six distinct categories. The major findings of this study...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a revolutionary force which has changed the face of service industry globally. Human resource is very stimuli and dynamic and pro-active resource in any organisation. There are various Human Resource (HR) practices, methods and models used to...

Reliability is one of the crucial part of any software, that cannot be disregarded and hard to measured. When the probability of software failure occurrence decreases, software reliability increases. A model used to illustrate software reliability is known as Software Reliability Growth Models...

Content analysis was performed on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature appearing in refereed journals. The extant DEA literature, reported in Gattoufi et al.1 was subdivided in two ways. The first considers all articles appearing during the life-cycle of 22 selected major DEA...