Both researchers and practitioners claim that foreign investors acquire U.S. firms to gain access to reputable brands. There is, however, no empirical evidence to support this argument. This study uses 269 Japanese investments made in the US to test the hypothesis that Japanese investors'...

In this paper, we present a heuristic procedure based on tabu search (TS) and intelligent memory structures for solving this problem. The TS method starts with a feasible schedule generated by a greedy forward dispatching procedure, then through a series of intensification and diversification...