Management Science articles from December 2002

Management Science archives from December 2002

The transfer of experience in groups of organizations: implications for performance and competition.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The image that interaction between organizations occurs at arms' length, across clear and meaningful organizational boundaries, is fading. It is being replaced by a recognition that organizations form groups which affect their...

Knowledge seeking and location choice of foreign direct investment in the United States.
December 1, 2002... Introduction Firms have different motives for expanding abroad including sourcing low-cost factors, avoiding taxes, managerial rent seeking, and behaving strategically by following competitors. (1) While numerous, one motive has been...

Using a Bayesian approach to quantify scale compatibility bias.
December 1, 2002... 1. Introduction In a standard assumption of multiattribute value analysis, overall value V(x) = V([x.sub.1],..., [x.sub.k]) of an alternative x is represented by the additive model V([x.sub.1],..., [x.sub.k]) = [summation over...

Approximating multiobjective knapsack problems.
December 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The knapsack problem is a classical problem in combinatorial optimization (Martello and Toth 1990). In the original version of the problem, the input consists of a knapsack with a certain capacity and a set of items, each...

Perturbing nonnormal confidential attributes: the copula approach.
December 1, 2002... 1. Introduction Databases are an important tool used by business organizations as well as by data-disseminating agencies (such as the Census Bureau). In business organizations, databases are used for internal record keeping and for...

Capacity management in decentralized networks.
December 1, 2002... 1. Introduction Bottleneck analysis is a useful tool in capacity planning for centrally controlled network systems, such as job shop or data communication networks. However, under a decentralized network where individual users are allowed...

Note: optimality conditions for an (s, S) policy with proportional and lump-sum penalty costs.
December 1, 2002... 1. Introduction In a paper that appeared in Management Science, Aneja and Noori (1987) consider an inventory problem with random demand and two types of shortage costs. The first type is the proportional penalty cost denoted by p, and the...

Note on "guarantees in auctions: the auction house as negotiator and managerial decision maker".
December 1, 2002... Introduction Greenleaf, Rao, and Sinha (1993), hereafter abbreviated GRS, develop a model of negotiations between auction houses and sellers choosing between conventional and guaranteed auctions. In a guaranteed auction, the auction house...