Public schools in the United States continue their struggle with the divergent goals of improving performance and reducing spending. For almost a decade, they have been challenged to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In many local districts, those goals have been pursued...

Proper performance measurement is an important issue in library operational management. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is applied to evaluate the relative operational efficiency of 25 U.S. private research-university library members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)....

An examination of changing an inventory policy of a major manufacturing organisation and its impact on the cost structure of the organisation is presented. A classic cost confrontation between set‐up costs and inventory costs are examined in the study. The results reveal that the unique nature...

A dual transportation analysis is considered as a strategic matter for plant facility expansion/contraction decision making in manufacturing operations. The primal-dual problem is presented in a generalized mathematical form. A practical technique of generating the dual solution is illustrated...