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1987, issue 12, vol 33

What is an Application and When is Theory a Waste of Time? pp. 1511-1522

Martin Shubik

A Heuristic Approach to Product Design pp. 1523-1533

Rajeev Kohli and Ramesh Krishnamurti

Strategy Maps: A Spatial Representation of Intra-Industry Competitive Strategy pp. 1534-1551

Diana L. Day, Wayne S. DeSarbo and Terence A. Oliva

Tests of the Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Using Bookmaker Odds pp. 1552-1562

Ron Bird and Michael McCrae

Dynamic Patent Races with Risky Choices pp. 1563-1571

Jaesun Park

Testing Behavioral Simulation Models by Direct Experiment pp. 1572-1592

John D. Sterman

A Bicriteria Mathematical Programming Model for Nutrition Planning in Developing Nations pp. 1593-1601

Harold P. Benson and Thomas L. Morin

The Optimal Treatment Strategy---A Patient's Perspective pp. 1602-1612

A. Mehrez and A. Gafni

Multi-Item, One-Warehouse, Multi-Retailer Distribution Systems pp. 1613-1621

John A. Muckstadt and Robin O. Roundy

Optimal Use and the Value of Water Resources in Electricity Generation pp. 1622-1634

Prodromos G. Efthymoglou

Note---Comment on: A Generalized Quantity Discount Pricing Model to Increase Supplier's Profits pp. 1635-1636

S. K. Goyal

1987, issue 11, vol 33

Lottery Dependent Utility pp. 1367-1382

Joao L. Becker and Rakesh K. Sarin

The Theory of Ratio Scale Estimation: Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process pp. 1383-1403

Patrick T. Harker and Luis G. Vargas

Managerial Perspectives on Risk and Risk Taking pp. 1404-1418

James G. March and Zur Shapira

R&D Management and Corporate Financial Policy pp. 1419-1427

John B. Guerard, Jr., Alden S. Bean and Steven Andrews

Efficient Market Adjustment of Odds Prices to Reflect Track Biases pp. 1428-1439

Brian R. Canfield, Bruce C. Fauman and William T. Ziemba

Optimal Group Maintenance Policies with Continuous and Periodic Inspections pp. 1440-1452

David Assaf and Jevaveerasingam Shanthikumar

A Network Decomposition Approach for Approximating the Steady-State Behavior of Markovian Multi-Echelon Reparable Item Inventory Systems pp. 1453-1468

Donald Gross, Leonidas C. Kioussis and Douglas R. Miller

Design and Operation of a Multicommodity Production/Distribution System Using Primal Goal Decomposition pp. 1469-1480

Gerald G. Brown, Glenn W. Graves and Maria D. Honczarenko

On Optimal Competitive Contracting pp. 1481-1488

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans

Competitive Procurement Under Demand Uncertainty pp. 1489-1500

Kofi O. Nti

Note---Analyzing Total Factor Productivity with ROI as a Criterion pp. 1501-1505

David M. Miller

About Authors pp. 1507-1509

Anonymous

1987, issue 10, vol 33

From EOQ Towards ZI pp. 1209-1223

Willard I. Zangwill

Note---Response to "Use of Sample Information in Stochastic Recourse and Chance-Constrained Programming Models": On the "Bayesability" of CCP's pp. 1224-1228

Irving H. LaValle

Note---Response pp. 1229-1231

Ravi Jagannathan

Note---Blau's Dilemma Revisited pp. 1232-1237

Robert F. Nau

Portfolio Analysis with Partial Information: The Case of Grouped Data pp. 1238-1246

Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber

Pricing Policies for Quantity Discounts pp. 1247-1252

Maqbool Dada and K. N. Srikanth

A Model for Relating Advertising Media Exposures to Purchase Incidence Behavior Patterns pp. 1253-1266

Fred S. Zufryden

An Empirical Evaluation of Alternative Forecasting Combinations pp. 1267-1276

Thomas D. Russell and Everett E. Adam, Jr.

Warnings of Malfunction: The Decision to Inspect and Maintain Production Processes on Schedule or on Demand pp. 1277-1290

M. E. Paté-Cornell, H. L. Lee and G. Tagaras

Setup Reduction and Increased Effective Capacity pp. 1291-1301

Anne M. Spence and Evan L. Porteus

A Multi-Echelon Inventory Model for Repairable Items with Emergency Lateral Transshipments pp. 1302-1316

Hau L. Lee

Modeling Coordination in Organizations and Markets pp. 1317-1332

Thomas W. Malone

A Dynamic Planning Technique for Continuous Activities Under Multiple Resource Constraints pp. 1333-1347

Mufit Ozden

Consumer Protection Laws: Violator Detection and Enforcement Strategy pp. 1348-1356

Priscilla A. Labarbera and Edward L. Melnick

Reply---An Answer to Sasieni's Question on PERT Times pp. 1357-1359

T. K. Littlefield, Jr. and P. H. Randolph

Reply---A Note on PERT Assumptions pp. 1360-1360

Charles Gallagher

Note---The Bierman-Hausman Credit Granting Model: A Note pp. 1361-1362

Venkat Srinivasan and Yong H. Kim

About Authors pp. 1363-1365

Anonymous

1987, issue 9, vol 33

A Diffusion Theory Model of Adoption and Substitution for Successive Generations of High-Technology Products pp. 1069-1086

John A. Norton and Frank M. Bass

Risk and the Relationship Among Strategy, Organizational Processes, and Performance pp. 1087-1101

David B. Jemison

Strategic Group Formation and Performance: The Case of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1963--1982 pp. 1102-1124

Karel O. Cool and Dan Schendel

Simultaneous Determination of Production Cycle and Inspection Schedules in a Production System pp. 1125-1136

Hau L. Lee and Meir J. Rosenblatt

Freezing the Master Production Schedule Under Rolling Planning Horizons pp. 1137-1149

V. Sridharan, William L. Berry and V. Udayabhanu

Eliminating Inventory in a Series Facility Production System pp. 1150-1164

Willard I. Zangwill

Reducing the Congestion in a Class of Job Shops pp. 1165-1172

David Yao and S. C. Kim

Optimal Server Allocation in a System of Multi-Server Stations pp. 1173-1180

Jevaveerasingam Shanthikumar and David Yao

Developing Competitive Strategies for Buyer-Supplier Negotiations pp. 1181-1191

Jonathan F. Bard

Simulating GI/G/k Queues in Heavy Traffic pp. 1192-1199

Do Le Minh

A Study of Graphical and Tabular Displays and Their Interaction with Environmental Complexity pp. 1200-1204

William Remus

About Authors pp. 1205-1207

Anonymous

1987, issue 8, vol 33

A Model for Predicting Frequencies of Random Events pp. 947-954

Donald Rosenfield

A Class of Utility Functions Containing all the Common Utility Functions pp. 955-964

Patrick L. Brockett and Linda L. Golden

Estimating Utility Functions in the Presence of Response Error pp. 965-980

Kathryn Blackmond Laskey and Gregory W. Fischer

Marketing-Production Decisions in an Industrial Channel of Distribution pp. 981-1000

Jehoshua Eliashberg and Richard Steinberg

Parallel Machine Scheduling: Processing Rates Dependent on Number of Jobs in Operation pp. 1001-1009

Moshe Dror, Helman I. Stern and Jan Karel Lenstra

An Optimal Design Problem for Limited Processor Sharing Systems pp. 1010-1019

Genji Yamazaki and Hirotaka Sakasegawa

A Layout Planning System with Multiple Criteria and a Variable Domain Representation pp. 1020-1034

F. Robert Jacobs

Priority Rules for Job Shops with Weighted Tardiness Costs pp. 1035-1047

Ari P. J. Vepsalainen and Thomas E. Morton

Asymmetric Players and Bargaining for Profit Shares in Natural Resource Development pp. 1048-1057

G. Anandalingam

Does Cheaper, Faster, or Better Imply Sooner in the Timing of Innovation Decisions? pp. 1058-1064

Steven A. Lippman and Kevin F. McCardle

Note---Comment on "The Dynamics of Plant Layout" pp. 1065-1065

Rajan Batta

About Authors pp. 1066-1068

Anonymous

1987, issue 7, vol 33

An Optimization Based Integrated Short-Term Refined Petroleum Product Planning System pp. 813-830

Darwin Klingman, Nancy Phillips, David Steiger, Ross Wirth, Rema Padman and R. Krishnan

An Integer Programming Approach and Implementation for an Electric Utility Capacity Planning Problem with Renewable Energy Sources pp. 831-847

Hanif D. Sherali, Konstantin Staschus and Jorge M. Huacuz

Multiperiod Financial Planning pp. 848-875

David P. Brown

Performance Evaluation of State-Owned Enterprises in Theory and Practice pp. 876-893

Ravi Ramamurti

Minimizing Mean Squared Deviation of Completion Times About a Common Due Date pp. 894-906

Uttarayan Bagchi, Robert S. Sullivan and Yih-Long Chang

A Heuristic Procedure for the Layout of a Large Number of Facilities pp. 907-915

Zvi Drezner

Discounted and Per Unit Costs of Product Warranty pp. 916-930

John W. Mamer

Approximation of the Overflow Process from a G/M/N/K Queueing System pp. 931-938

Behnam Pourbabai

Note---A Note on Computing Optimal Control Limits for GI/M/1 Queueing Systems pp. 939-943

Martin L. Puterman and Lyn C. Thomas

About Authors pp. 944-945

Anonymous

1987, issue 6, vol 33

Planning System Success: A Conceptualization and an Operational Model pp. 687-705

N. Venkatraman and Vasudevan Ramanujam

Entry and Learning pp. 706-724

Timothy M. Devinney

Consensus Forecasts of Corporate Earnings: Analysts' Forecasts and Time Series Methods pp. 725-738

Robert Conroy and Robert Harris

A Predictive Method of Teacher's Structure in China's University (1985--2000) pp. 739-749

Chen Ling and Pen Guozhong

The Optimality of (s, S) Policies for a Stochastic Inventory Problem with Proportional and Lump-Sum Penalty Cost pp. 750-755

Yash Aneja and A. Hamid Noori

Inventory Policies Under Various Optimizing Criteria and Variable Markup Rates pp. 756-762

F. J. Arcelus and G. Srinivasan

On Optimal Reservation Prices in Auctions pp. 763-770

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans

A Mathematical Model of Dental Caries Used to Evaluate the Benefits of Alternative Frequencies of Bitewing Radiographs pp. 771-783

Michael Shwartz, Joseph S. Pliskin, Hans-Göran Gröndahl and Joseph Boffa

Batching to Minimize Flow Times on One Machine pp. 784-799

Gregory Dobson, Uday S. Karmarkar and Jeffrey L. Rummel

A Constrained Capital Budgeting Problem with Applications to Repair Kit Selection pp. 800-806

John W. Mamer and Andrew W. Shogan

Note---Does Rolling Back Decision Trees Really Require the Independence Axiom? pp. 807-809

Gordon B. Hazen

About Authors pp. 810-812

Anonymous

1987, issue 5, vol 33

An Introduction to Structured Modeling pp. 547-588

Arthur M. Geoffrion

A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision Support Systems pp. 589-609

Gerardine DeSanctis and R. Brent Gallupe

PAM---A Practitioner's Approach to Modeling pp. 610-625

James S. Welch, Jr.

Cost Allocation and Opportunity Costs pp. 626-639

Bruce L. Miller and A. G. Buckman

Ordinal Time Series Methodology for Industry and Competitive Analysis pp. 640-661

Timothy W. Ruefli and Chester L. Wilson

Optimal Average Cost Policies for the Two-Terminal Shuttle pp. 662-669

Rajat K. Deb and Charles P. Schmidt

Nonorthogonal Two-Dimensional Cutting Patterns pp. 670-684

A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, J. R. De Wit and R. Th. Wijmenga

About Authors pp. 685-686

Anonymous

1987, issue 4, vol 33

A Mathematical Programming Approach to a Deterministic Kanban System pp. 427-441

Gabriel R. Bitran and Li Chang

Comparing Hierarchical and Nonhierarchical Weighting Methods for Eliciting Multiattribute Value Models pp. 442-450

William G. Stillwell, Detlof von Winterfeldt and Richard S. John

Diffusion and Advertising: The German Telephone Campaign pp. 451-466

Hermann Simon and Karl-Heinz Sebastian

A Game-Theoretic Model of Corporate Takeovers by Major Stockholders pp. 467-483

Imelda Yeung Powers

A Stochastic Dynamic Nash Game Analysis of Policies for Managing the Strategic Petroleum Reserves of Consuming Nations pp. 484-499

Frederic H. Murphy, Michael Toman and Howard J. Weiss

A Sequential Model of R&D Investment Over an Unbounded Time Horizon pp. 500-508

Wallace J. Hopp

Manufacturing Strategy, Environmental Uncertainty and Performance: A Path Analytic Model pp. 509-524

Paul M. Swamidass and William T. Newell

An Approach for Confirmatory Measurement and Structural Equation Modeling of Organizational Properties pp. 525-541

James C. Anderson

Notes--Discovering Personal Probabilities When Utility Functions are Unknown pp. 542-544

Franklin Allen

About Authors pp. 545-546

Anonymous

1987, issue 3, vol 33

The Efficiency of the Simplex Method: A Survey pp. 301-334

Ron Shamir

Scheduling Ocean Transportation of Crude Oil pp. 335-346

Gerald G. Brown, Glenn W. Graves and David Ronen

On the Evaluation of Compound Options pp. 347-355

Michael J. P. Selby and Stewart D. Hodges

Combination of Forecasts: An Extension pp. 356-372

Sunil Gupta and Peter C. Wilton

Combining Overlapping Information pp. 373-380

Robert T. Clemen

The Financing Threshold Effect on Success and Failure of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Start-Ups pp. 381-394

Edward B. Roberts and Oscar Hauptman

Analyzing Tenant Assignment Policies pp. 395-408

Edward H. Kaplan

Lot Sizes, Lead Times and In-Process Inventories pp. 409-418

Uday S. Karmarkar

Note---Lot-Sizing and Sequencing Delays pp. 419-423

Uday S. Karmarkar

About Authors pp. 424-425

Anonymous

1987, issue 2, vol 33

Cognitive Process as a Basis for MIS and DSS Design pp. 139-148

Arkalgud Ramaprasad

A Semi-Markov Model for Primary Health Care Manpower Supply Prediction pp. 149-160

Vandan Trivedi, Ira Moscovice, Richard Bass and John Brooks

Uncertainty, Competition, and the Adoption of New Technology pp. 161-177

John W. Mamer and Kevin F. McCardle

The Effect of Business Interdependencies on Product R&D-Intensive Business Performance pp. 178-197

Mel Horwitch and Raymond A. Thietart

Preferences for Proxy Attributes pp. 198-214

Gregory W. Fischer, Nirmala Damodaran, Kathryn B. Laskey and David Lincoln

Analysis of a Two-Echelon Inventory Control System with Complete Redistribution pp. 215-227

H. Jönsson and E. A. Silver

The Structure of Equilibria in Market Share Attraction Models pp. 228-243

George E. Monahan

Institutionalization of a Management Science Innovation in Police Departments pp. 244-252

Michael W. Lawless

Application of Game Theoretic Analysis to a Problem in Demography pp. 253-257

Guillermo Owen

Strategy, Strategy Making, and Performance---An Empirical Investigation pp. 258-269

Eli Segev

Simulating the Response of a Small Open Politico-Economic System to International Crises: The Case of Switzerland pp. 270-287

Urs Luterbacher, T. Michael Clarke, Pierre Allan and Nicolas Kessler

Note---A Re-Examination of the Results of Hogarth and Makridakis' "The Value of Decision Making in a Complex Environment: An Experimental Approach" pp. 288-296

William T. Ross

About Authors pp. 297-299

Anonymous

1987, issue 1, vol 33

Counting Your Customers: Who-Are They and What Will They Do Next? pp. 1-24

David C. Schmittlein, Donald G. Morrison and Richard Colombo

Cash Transfer Scheduling for Concentrating Noncentral Receipts pp. 25-38

M. Anvari

Kanban, MRP, and Shaping the Manufacturing Environment pp. 39-57

Lee J. Krajewski, Barry E. King, Larry P. Ritzman and Danny S. Wong

An Algorithm for Technology Choice in Local Area Network Design pp. 58-72

Ann S. Marucheck and Joanne M. Sulek

A Methodology for Determining a Hospital's Expected Costs for Changes in Patient Load and Service Mix pp. 73-85

Peter Duchessi

The Multilocation Multiperiod Inventory Problem: Bounds and Approximations pp. 86-94

Uday S. Karmarkar

Setting Planned Leadtimes in Serial Production Systems with Tardiness Costs pp. 95-106

Candace Arai Yano

Adaptive Coordination of a Learning Team pp. 107-123

Pertti H. Lounamaa and James G. March

Price Indexes for R and D Inputs, 1969--1983 pp. 124-129

Edwin Mansfield

Errata & Comments--Departmental Editor's Introduction pp. 130-130

Leroy B. Schwarz

Comment on "A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Joint Replenishment Under General Order Cost Functions" pp. 131-133

Maurice Queyranne

Comment on "A Dynamic Programming Approach for Joint Replenishment Under General Order Cost Functions" pp. 133-135

S. K. Goyal

About Authors pp. 136-137

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