Management Science

The first major experimental comparison of approval voting with regular plurality voting occurred in the 1985 annual election of The Institute of Management Sciences TIMS. In approval voting a person votes for approves of as many candidates as desired, ...

Recently, a "lead user" concept has been proposed for new product development in fields subject to rapid change von Hippel [von Hippel, E. 1986. Lead users: A source of novel product concepts. Management Sci.32 791-805.]. In this paper we integrate ...

This article concerns theories about why and how information technology affects organizational life. Good theory guides research, which, when applied, increases the likelihood that information technology will be employed with desirable consequences for ...

Most managers, when confronted with a difficult strategic decision, would like to know what is the prevailing practice in their industry. Prevailing practice interests managers, in part, because it may indicate which decisions are good, even "best." The ...

Most processes consist of several operations. Some or all of these operations may have more than one alternative technological method, resulting in an exponential relationship between the number of possible designs and the number of operation ...

We present a new algorithm for the optimal solution of the 0-1 Knapsack problem, which is particularly effective for large-size problems. The algorithm is based on determination of an appropriate small subset of items and the solution of the ...

This paper presents a systematic discussion of decision analysis models for attitudes toward risk when the effects of a public policy choice extend into the distant or unbounded future. Several issues of social risk attitudes are identified and ...

A profit making service facility that offers a set of different prices for the single service it provides is considered. By paying a higher price, the customer buys into a priority class that shortens his stay in the service system. We determine the ...

By focussing on issues concerning precise relative performance of the human and experimental teams, Ross obscures the major, and a priori surprising result of our study. This is that the experimental teams were not all dominated by the human teams. ...