Joint replenishment for several products to achieve a lower inventory logistics cost has been a topic of extensive studies. Less attention has been paid to the issue of deciding how the joint replenishment costs should be allocated across the individual products. Ideally, when items are ordered...

Analysis of physical function as a measure of nursing home resident outcomes in 10 nursing homes revealed that organizational design variables were important. Results were consistent with contingency theory, which posits that to maximize performance organizational structure should be adjusted to...