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...