Difficulties in Implementing Management Science Techniques in a Third World Setting

Thaddeus M. Glen and Charles F. James
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Thaddeus M. Glen: Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606
Charles F. James: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881

Interfaces, 1980, vol. 10, issue 1, 39-44

Abstract: Attempts to apply conventional Management Science techniques in third world countries such as India must include consideration of complex industrial-social-political situations. At the forefront of every effort is the government's policy of putting more and more people on the payroll. The scarce resources of material, machines, energy, and money are very much regulated by the government and are allocated to individual companies on the basis of that company's ability to meet the goals of the government. This system leads to management models which are anomalies to a person from the western world.

Keywords: professional:; OR/MS; implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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