The hypothesis that firms simultaneously determine their research and development, investment, dividend, and new debt policies generally is substantiated in the financial literature. The strategic planning model advocated in this study offers an alternative to the generally accepted goals of...

This paper extends previous work on the use of sequential building heuristics for the design of a collection system, a linear fixed-charge problem that includes the design of a lock-box system as an important subproblem. The heuristic extensions in this paper first present simple methods for...