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• Coordinating expertise in software development teams AI翻译
  作者：Faraj, S; Sproull, L
  作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; New York University
  摘要：Like all teams, knowledge teams must acquire and manage critical resources in order to accomplish their work. The most critical resource for knowledge teams is expertise, or specialized skills and knowledge, but the mere presence of expertise on a team is insufficient to produce high-quality work. Expertise must be managed and coordinated in order to leverage its potential. That is, teams must be able to manage their skill and knowledge interdependencies effectively through expertise coordinat...
• A decomposition-based pricing procedure for large-scale linear programs: An application to the linear multicommodity flow problem AI翻译
  作者：Mamer, JW; McBride, RD
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Southern California
  摘要：We propose and test a new pricing procedure for solving large-scale structured linear programs. The procedure interactively solves a relaxed subproblem to identify potential entering basic columns. The subproblem is chosen to exploit special structure, rendering it easy to solve. The effect of the procedure is the reduction of the number of pivots needed to solve the problem. Our approach is motivated by the column-generation approach of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition. We test our procedure on tw...
• Predicting queueing delays AI翻译
  作者：Whitt, W
  作者单位：AT&T
  摘要：This paper investigates the possibility of predicting each customer's waiting time in queue before starting service in a multiserver service system with the first-come first-served service discipline, such as a telephone call center. A predicted waiting-time distribution or an appropriate summary statistic such as the mean or the 90th percentile may be communicated to the customer upon arrival and possibly thereafter in order to improve customer satisfaction. The predicted waiting-time distrib...
• A branch-first, cut-second approach for locomotive assignment AI翻译
  作者：Ziarati, K; Soumis, F; Desrosiers, J; Solomon, MM
  作者单位：Universite de Montreal; Polytechnique Montreal; Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Northeastern University
  摘要：The problem of assigning locomotives to trains consists of selecting the types and number of engines that minimize the fixed and operational locomotive costs resulting from providing sufficient power to pull trains on fixed schedules. The force required to gull a train is often expressed in terms of horsepower and tonnage requirements rather than in terms of number of engines. This complicates the solution process of the integer programming formulation and usually creates a large integrality g...
• Simulating project work processes and organizations: Toward a micro-contingency theory of organizational design AI翻译
  作者：Levitt, RE; Thomsen, J; Christiansen, TR; Kunz, JC; Jin, Y; Nass, C
  作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University; University of Southern California; Stanford University
  摘要：The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's (1973) information-processing view of organizations. VDT simulates the micro-level information processing, communication, and coordination behavior of participants in a project organization and predicts several measures of participant and project-level performance. VDT-1 (Cohen 1991) and VDT-2 (Christiansen 1993) modeled project organizations containing actors with perfectly congruent goals engaged in complex but routine eng...
• Profitability and marketability of the top 55 US commercial banks AI翻译
  作者：Seiford, LM; Zhu, J
  作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  摘要：Utilizing recent developments in data envelopment analysis (DEA), this paper examines the performance of the top 55 U.S. commercial banks via a two-stage production process that separates profitability and marketability. Substantial performance inefficiency is uncovered in both dimensions. Relatively large banks exhibit better performance on profitability, whereas smaller banks tend to perform better with respect to marketability. New context-dependent performance measures are defined for prof...
• New firm survival: Institutional explanations for new franchisor mortality AI翻译
  作者：Shane, S; Foo, MD
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National University of Singapore
  摘要：Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that the new firms fail because entrepreneurs inefficiently manage production and organizational design (Williamson 1985). Sociologists (e.g., Granovetter 1985) have typically viewed this explanation as undersocialized, and argue that institutional legitimacy must also be considered to explain the survival of new firms. This paper examines the survival of 1292 new franchisors established in the United States from 1979-1996. The re...
• Price versus production postponement: Capacity and competition AI翻译
  作者：Van Mieghem, JA; Dada, M
  作者单位：Northwestern University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
  摘要：This article presents a comparative analysis of possible postponement strategies in a two-stage decision model where firms make three decisions: capacity investment, production (inventory) quantity, and price. Typically, investments are made while the demand curve is uncertain. The strategies differ in the timing of the operational decisions relative to the realization of uncertainty. We show how competition, uncertainty, and the timing of operational decisions influence the strategic investme...
• The impact of adding a make-to-order item to a make-to-stock production system AI翻译
  作者：Federgruen, A; Katalan, Z
  作者单位：Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problems (ELSPs) involve settings where several items need to be produced in a common facility with limited capacity, under significant uncertainty regarding demands, unit production times, setup times, or combinations thereof. We consider systems where some products are made-to-stock while another product line is made-to-order. We present a rich and effective class of strategies for which a variety of cost and performance measures can be evaluated and optimi...
• Measures of perceived risk AI翻译
  作者：Jia, JM; Dyer, JS; Butler, JC
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
  摘要：Based on our previous work on the standard measure of risk, this paper presents two classes of measures for perceived risk by decomposing a lottery into its mean and standard risk. One of the classes of our risk measures presumes that there is no risk when there is no uncertainty involved, and the other allows different degenerate lotteries to be evaluated with different values of risk. The former has more prescriptive appeal in risky decision making, but the latter may have more descriptive p...