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1986, issue 12, vol 32

The Accuracy of Combining Judgemental and Statistical Forecasts pp. 1521-1532

M. J. Lawrence, R. H. Edmundson and M. J. O'Connor

Bidding for Contracts pp. 1533-1550

William Samuelson

Final-Offer Arbitration pp. 1551-1561

Donald Wittman

A Special Case of Dynamic Pricing Policy pp. 1562-1566

Birger Wernerfelt

Batch Size and Stocking Levels in Multi-Echelon Repairable Systems pp. 1567-1581

Kamran Moinzadeh and Hau L. Lee

A Primal Simplex Approach to Pure Processing Networks pp. 1582-1598

Chou-Hong J. Chen and Michael Engquist

Multi-Object Auctions: Sequential vs. Simultaneous Sales pp. 1599-1610

Donald B. Hausch

Comment on "Multi-Object Auctions: Sequential vs. Simultaneous Sales" pp. 1611-1612

Michael H. Rothkopf, Elmer Dougherty and Marshall Rose

The Use of Categorical Variables in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1613-1627

Rajiv D. Banker and Richard C. Morey

A Multiobjective Methodology for Selecting Subsystem Automation Options pp. 1628-1641

Jonathan F. Bard

Note---Ordinal Ranking and Intensity of Preference: A Linear Programming Approach pp. 1642-1647

Iqbal Ali, Wade D. Cook and Moshe Kress

Note---A Note on the Reversibility and Duality of Some Tandem Blocking Queueing Systems pp. 1648-1650

Benjamin Melamed

Note---The Managerial Economics of Civil Litigation: A Note pp. 1650-1651

Kofi O. Nti

Note---A Note on Pert Times pp. 1652-1653

M. W. Sasieni

About Authors pp. 1654-1655

Anonymous

1986, issue 11, vol 32

Implications of Salesforce Productivity Heterogeneity and Demotivation: A Navy Recruiter Case Study pp. 1371-1388

Vincent P. Carroll, Hau L. Lee and Ambar G. Rao

Chief Executive Personality and Corporate Strategy and Structure in Small Firms pp. 1389-1409

Danny Miller and Jean-Marie Toulouse

The Effects of the Sample Size, the Investment Horizon and Market Conditions on the Validity of Composite Performance Measures: A Generalization pp. 1410-1421

Son-Nan Chen and Cheng F. Lee

The Adoption of Radical and Incremental Innovations: An Empirical Analysis pp. 1422-1433

Robert D. Dewar and Jane E. Dutton

Concepts and Applications of Backup Coverage pp. 1434-1444

Kathleen Hogan and Charles ReVelle

Expected Utility, Penalty Functions, and Duality in Stochastic Nonlinear Programming pp. 1445-1466

Aharon Ben-Tal and Marc Teboulle

Sequencing Capacity Expansion Projects in Continuous Time pp. 1467-1479

A. W. Neebe and M. R. Rao

Decision Rules and Transactions, Organizations and Markets pp. 1480-1491

Helmy H. Baligh

Reducing Social Context Cues: Electronic Mail in Organizational Communication pp. 1492-1512

Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler

Note---On "A Quantity Discount Pricing Model to Increase Vendor Profits" pp. 1513-1517

Avijit Banerjee

About Authors pp. 1518-1520

Anonymous

1986, issue 10, vol 32

What is an Attractive Industry? pp. 1223-1230

Birger Wernerfelt and Cynthia A. Montgomery

Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy pp. 1231-1241

Jay B. Barney

Emergency Government Interventions: Case Study of Natural Gas Shortages pp. 1242-1258

Abraham Charnes, William W. Cooper, Wilpen L. Gorr, Cheng Hsu and Burkhard von Rabenau

An Analysis of Risk and Return in the Defense Market: Its Impact on Weapon System Competition pp. 1259-1273

Willis R. Greer, Jr. and Shu S. Liao

A Tight Linearization and an Algorithm for Zero-One Quadratic Programming Problems pp. 1274-1290

Warren P. Adams and Hanif D. Sherali

A Comparison of Heuristics for Scheduling Projects with Cash Flows and Resource Restrictions pp. 1291-1300

Robert A. Russell

Quality Improvement and Learning in Productive Systems pp. 1301-1315

Charles H. Fine

A Branch and Bound Approach for Machine Load Balancing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems pp. 1316-1335

Mohammed Berrada and Kathryn E. Stecke

A Single Product Cycling Problem Under Brownian Motion Demand pp. 1336-1345

R. G. Vickson

Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best pp. 1346-1355

Steven Brams and Samuel Merrill, III

Note---A Note on Economic Models for R&D Project Selection in the Presence of Project Interactions pp. 1356-1360

Paula M. Goldstein and Howard M. Singer

Note---An Improved Conditional Monte Carlo Technique for the Stochastic Shortest Path Problem pp. 1360-1367

Veena G. Adlakha

About Authors pp. 1368-1370

Anonymous

1986, issue 9, vol 32

Risk Preferences for Gains and Losses in Multiple Objective Decision Making pp. 1065-1086

Gregory W. Fischer, Mark S. Kamlet, Stephen E. Fienberg and David Schkade

A Model for the Distribution of the Number of Bids on Federal Offshore Oil Leases pp. 1087-1094

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Elmer L. Dougherty and John Lohrenz

A Multiplier Adjustment Method for the Generalized Assignment Problem pp. 1095-1103

Marshall L. Fisher, R. Jaikumar and Luk N. Van Wassenhove

Optimal Residence Times for a Batch Biomass-to-Methane Conversion System pp. 1104-1113

Bryan L. Deuermeyer, Hwaki Lee and Guy L. Curry

The Channel Intermediary Selection Decision: A Model and an Application pp. 1114-1122

V. Kasturi Rangan, Andris A. Zoltners and Robert J. Becker

Value Functions for Infinite-Period Planning pp. 1123-1139

Charles M. Harvey

The Multiregion Dynamic Capacity Expansion Problem: An Improved Heuristic pp. 1140-1152

C. O. Fong and V. Srinivasan

Optimal Capacity Expansion Planning When There are Learning Effects pp. 1153-1163

Randall S. Hiller and Jeremy F. Shapiro

Incorporating Learning Curve Analysis into Medium-Term Capacity Planning Procedures: A Simulation Experiment pp. 1164-1176

Timothy L. Smunt

A Generalized Quantity Discount Pricing Model to Increase Supplier's Profits pp. 1177-1185

Hau L. Lee and Meir J. Rosenblatt

Forecasting Error Evaluation in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Production-Inventory Systems pp. 1186-1205

T. S. Lee and Everett E. Adam, Jr.

Detection of Nonstationarity in Hydrologic Time Series pp. 1206-1217

A. Ramachandra Rao and G. H. Yu

About Authors pp. 1218-1221

Anonymous

1986, issue 8, vol 32

A Survey of Exact Algorithms for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem pp. 909-932

\.Ilker Baybars

Financial Futures Hedging Via Goal Programming pp. 933-947

Ramesh Sharda and Kathryn D. Musser

Search Theory and the Manufacturing Progress Function pp. 948-962

John Muth

Arbitrating a Dispute: A Decision Analytic Approach pp. 963-974

Jehoshua Eliashberg

Inventory Service-Level Measures: Convexity and Approximation pp. 975-981

Paul Zipkin

The Effect of Commonality on Safety Stock in a Simple Inventory Model pp. 982-988

Kenneth R. Baker, Michael J. Magazine and Henry L. W. Nuttle

Heuristics for Multilevel Lot-Sizing with a Bottleneck pp. 989-1006

Peter J. Billington, John O. McClain and L. Joseph Thomas

A Generalized Network Formulation of the Pairwise Comparison Consensus Ranking Model pp. 1007-1014

Jonathan Barzilai, Wade D. Cook and Moshe Kress

Game Theory and Cost Allocation Problems pp. 1015-1028

S. H. Tijs and T. S. H. Driessen

A Game Theoretic Approach to Collections and Disbursements pp. 1029-1039

Yair E. Orgler and Yair Tauman

Searching for Positive Returns at the Track: A Multinomial Logit Model for Handicapping Horse Races pp. 1040-1060

Ruth Bolton and Randall G. Chapman

About Authors pp. 1061-1063

Anonymous

1986, issue 7, vol 32

Inventory Optimization in the U.S. Petroleum Industry: Empirical Analysis and Implications for Energy Emergency Policy pp. 773-790

R. Glenn Hubbard and Robert J. Weiner

Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts pp. 791-805

Eric von Hippel

New Product Strategy in Small Technology-Based Firms: A Pilot Study pp. 806-821

Marc H. Meyer and Edward B. Roberts

The Relation Between Research and Development Project Performance and Technical Communication in a Developing Country---Afghanistan pp. 822-830

Yar M. Ebadi and David A. Dilts

The Marriage Tax pp. 831-840

Jane M. Fraser

Axiomatic Foundation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process pp. 841-855

Thomas L. Saaty

Improved Penalties for Fixed Cost Linear Programs Using Lagrangean Relaxation pp. 856-869

Arevalo Victor and S. Selcuk Erenguc

True Interest Cost in Municipal Bond Bidding: An Integer Programming Approach pp. 870-877

Robert M. Nauss

An Adaptive Filter for Estimating Spatially-Varying Parameters: Application to Modeling Police Hours Spent in Response to Calls for Service pp. 878-889

Stuart A. Foster and Wilpen L. Gorr

Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A Review of Analytical Models pp. 890-905

J. A. Buzacott and David Yao

About Authors pp. 906-907

Anonymous

1986, issue 6, vol 32

Market Share Rewards to Pioneering Brands: An Empirical Analysis and Strategic Implications pp. 645-659

Glen L. Urban, Theresa Carter, Steven Gaskin and Zofia Mucha

On the Minimum Violations Ranking of a Tournament pp. 660-672

Iqbal Ali, Wade D. Cook and Moshe Kress

Uncertainty, Experience and the "Winner's Curse" in OCS Lease Bidding pp. 673-682

Otis W. Gilley, Gordon V. Karels and Robert P. Leone

Unstable Weights in the Combination of Forecasts pp. 683-695

Heejoon Kang

The Bias of Schedules and Playoff Systems in Professional Sports pp. 696-713

Howard J. Weiss

A Stochastic Inventory Model Incorporating Intra-Year Purchases and Accounting Tax Incentives pp. 714-730

Gary C. Biddle and R. Kipp Martin

A Sequencing Problem with Release Dates and Clustered Jobs pp. 731-738

Marc E. Posner

Multiattribute Bayesian Acceptance Sampling Plans Under Nondestructive Inspection pp. 739-750

Kwei Tang, Robert Plante and Herbert Moskowitz

A Two-Moment Approximation for the Mean Waiting Time in the GI/G/s Queue pp. 751-763

Toshikazu Kimura

Note---Patience is a Virtue in a Simple Model of Repetitively Joining a Queue pp. 764-767

Colin E. Bell

Note---A Remark on Optimality of Control Limit Rules pp. 768-770

Antonín Le\v{s}anovský

About Authors pp. 771-772

Anonymous

1986, issue 5, vol 32

Organization Design: Introduction to the Focused Issue pp. 513-513

Arie Y. Lewin and George P. Huber

Determining Organizational Effectiveness: Another Look, and an Agenda for Research pp. 514-538

Arie Y. Lewin and John W. Minton

Effectiveness as Paradox: Consensus and Conflict in Conceptions of Organizational Effectiveness pp. 539-553

Kim S. Cameron

Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design pp. 554-571

Richard L. Daft and Robert H. Lengel

The Decision-Making Paradigm of Organizational Design pp. 572-589

George P. Huber and Reuben R. McDaniel

Central Problems in the Management of Innovation pp. 590-607

Andrew H. Van de Ven

Inertia, Environments, and Strategic Choice: A Quasi-Experimental Design for Comparative-Longitudinal Research pp. 608-621

Elaine Romanelli and Michael L. Tushman

Virtual Positions and Power pp. 622-642

Kenneth D. Mackenzie

About Authors pp. 643-644

Anonymous

1986, issue 4, vol 32

The Use of Screening in Policy Analysis pp. 389-402

Warren E. Walker

Safety Stocks in MRP---Systems with Emergency Setups for Components pp. 403-412

Robert C. Carlson and Candace A. Yano

A Comparison of Strategies to Dampen Nervousness in MRP Systems pp. 413-429

Joseph D. Blackburn, Dean H. Kropp and Robert A. Millen

A Comparative Evaluation of Heuristic Line Balancing Techniques pp. 430-454

F. Brian Talbot, James H. Patterson and William V. Gehrlein

A Cost-Based Methodology for Stochastic Line Balancing with Intermittent Line Stoppages pp. 455-463

Fred N. Silverman and John C. Carter

Scheduling with Multiple Performance Measures: The One-Machine Case pp. 464-479

Rosser T. Nelson, Rakesh K. Sarin and Richard L. Daniels

The Ability of Nash's Theory of Cooperative Games to Predict the Outcomes of Buyer-Seller Negotiations: A Dyad-Level Test pp. 480-498

Scott A. Neslin and Leonard Greenhalgh

Forecasting Data Published at Irregular Time Intervals Using an Extension of Holt's Method pp. 499-510

David J. Wright

About Authors pp. 511-512

Anonymous

1986, issue 3, vol 32

Forecasting When Pattern Changes Occur Beyond the Historical Data pp. 257-271

Robert Carbone and Spyros Makridakis

Optimal Timing of Account Audits in Internal Control pp. 272-282

Richard C. Morey and David A. Dittman

A Parametric Approach to Stochastic Dominance: The Lognormal Case pp. 283-288

Yoram Kroll and Haim Levy

Using Order Statistics to Estimate Real Estate Bid Distributions pp. 289-297

Keith C. Brown and Deborah J. Brown

Expert Resolution pp. 298-303

Robert L. Winkler

Another Look at an Axiomatic Approach to Expert Resolution pp. 303-306

Dennis V. Lindley

Comments on Some Axioms for Combining Expert Judgments pp. 306-312

Mark J. Schervish

Calibration and the Aggregation of Probabilities pp. 312-314

Robert T. Clemen

Calibration and the Expert Problem pp. 315-321

S. French

Observations on Expert Aggregation pp. 321-328

Peter A. Morris

Delays for Customers from Different Arrival Streams to a Queue pp. 329-340

Susan L. Albin

Preemptive Scheduling of Uniform Machines by Ordinary Network Flow Techniques pp. 341-349

A. Federgruen and H. Groenevelt

The Multi-Item Capacitated Lot Size Problem: Error Bounds of Manne's Formulations pp. 350-359

Gabriel R. Bitran and Hirofumi Matsuo

Extending Planning Languages to Include Optimization Capabilities pp. 360-373

Asim Roy, L. S. Lasdon and J. Lordeman

Analysis and Generalisation of a Multivariate Exponential Smoothing Model pp. 374-380

Andrew Harvey

Note---Erratum: A Computational Error in a Nonlinear Programming Example pp. 381-382

Denis T. Clements, Frederick B. Buoni and Ambrose Goicoechea

Note---Rolling Back Decision Trees Requires the Independence Axiom! pp. 382-385

Irving H. LaValle and Kenneth R. Wapman

Erratum to: "Piecewise Loglinear Estimation of Efficient Production Surfaces" pp. 385-385

Rajiv D. Banker and Ajay Maindiratta

About Authors pp. 386-387

Anonymous

1986, issue 2, vol 32

An LP Planning Model for a Mental Health Community Support System pp. 139-155

H. Stephen Leff, Maqbool Dada and Stephen C. Graves

The Intellectual Development of Management Information Systems, 1972--1982: A Co-Citation Analysis pp. 156-172

Mary J. Culnan

Patents and Innovation: An Empirical Study pp. 173-181

Edwin Mansfield

When Does Lag Structure Really Matter in Optimizing Advertising Expenditures? pp. 182-193

Wesley A. Magat, John M. McCann and Richard C. Morey

A Market Entry Timing Model for New Technologies pp. 194-205

Shlomo Kalish and Gary L. Lilien

A Variable Buffer-Size Model and Its Use in Analyzing Closed Queueing Networks with Blocking pp. 206-224

Rajan Suri and Gregory W. Diehl

A Homogeneous Industry Model of Resource Allocation to Basic Research and Its Policy Implications pp. 225-236

Prafulla Joglekar and Morris Hamburg

Note---Notions of Efficiency and Their Reference Sets pp. 237-243

Rolf Färe and Worthen Hunsaker

Note---Naive Diversification and Portfolio Risk---A Note pp. 244-251

Ron Bird and Mark Tippett

Note---Comment on "A Perturbation Scheme to Improve Hillier's Solution to the Facilities Layout Problem" pp. 251-253

Bharat K. Kaku and Gerald L. Thompson

Note---"A Perturbation Scheme to Improve Hillier's Solution to the Facilities Layout Problem": A Clarification pp. 253-254

Christopher J. Picone and Wilbert E. Wilhelm

About Authors pp. 255-256

Anonymous

1986, issue 1, vol 32

Research Opportunities in the Decision and Management Sciences pp. 1-13

John D. C. Little

Optimal Strategic Petroleum Reserve Policies: A Steady State Analysis pp. 14-29

Shmuel S. Oren and Shao Hong Wan

A Comparative Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Translog Methods: An Illustrative Study of Hospital Production pp. 30-44

Rajiv D. Banker, Robert F. Conrad and Robert Strauss

Subjective Probability and the Prisoner's Dilemma pp. 45-55

John G. Wilson

"Lottery Equivalents": Reduction of the Certainty Effect Problem in Utility Assessment pp. 56-60

Mark McCord and Richard de Neufville

An Interactive Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Multiple Criteria Optimization pp. 61-75

Odile Marcotte and Richard M. Soland

The Dynamics of Plant Layout pp. 76-86

Meir J. Rosenblatt

A Study of Organizational Effectiveness and its Predictors pp. 87-112

Kim Cameron

Optimal and Heuristic Procedures for Component Lot-Splitting in Multi-Stage Manufacturing Systems pp. 113-125

Jaya P. Moily

Piecewise Loglinear Estimation of Efficient Production Surfaces pp. 126-135

Rajiv D. Banker and Ajay Maindiratta

About Authors pp. 136-137

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