Bukchin, Yossi; Hanany, Eran - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9 (2007) 3, pp. 263-275
Decentralized organizations may incur inefficiencies because of scheduling issues associated with competition among decision makers (DMs) for limited resources. We analyze the decentralization cost (DC), i.e., the ratio between the Nash equilibrium cost and the cost attained at the centralized...