Recent efforts in the area of modelling activities in the urban environment have been concentrated on the use of simulation techniques. In this paper the problem of population location in a metropolitan area is treated in an analytic model employing a goal programming formulation. A target...

A number of analytic formulations of resource allocation activities in decentralized organizations have considered the effects of economic or technological externalities but most treatments have neglected concomitant organizational or behavioral effects. This paper introduces the concept of a...

A decomposition model is developed which can be interpreted as a representation of decision-making in a three-level hierarchical organization. The central unit coordinates decision activity by generating goals for a subordinate level of management units. These latter are responsible for...

Models of decision-making in multi-level, hierarchical systems in the literature have been restricted to structures where the system is strictly pyramidal in nature. We will show that this restriction has been self-imposed and that existing models can be modified to represent a wide range of...

The stratification of entities into statistically distinct levels of performance over time is a problem encountered in a number of research and management settings. Traditional techniques to address this issue (e.g., cluster analysis) often require, either ex ante or ex post, the exogenous...

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Ordinal time series analysis is a new methodology that is especially appropriate for industry and competitive analysis along multiple dimensions of performance over periods of time. The methodology, by using ordinal data, eliminates the requirements encountered in cardinal analysis for further...

In a recent article, Oviatt and Bauerschmidt (1991) investigated risk-return relationship by employing the square root of the mean square error of returns as a measure of risk and found no significant relationship existed in those terms. Ruefli (1991) has suggested that under the assumption of...

A growing number of articles in the area of strategic management employ a mean-variance approach to risk-return relationships. Some researchers investigating risk-return relationships in this fashion claim to have found negative associations between the levels of return and risk. The analysis...

Strategic management researchers have shown increasing awareness of the importance of the concept of risk at the strategic level. In recognition of this interest, this research adopts a commonly used conceptualization of risk and shows how this conceptualization leads to a new measure of risk,...