The authors' purpose in this paper is to develop productivity-based sequential budgeting procedures designed to expedite identification of major problem areas in bugetary performance, as well as to reduce the costs associated with comprehensive zero-base analyses. The concept of total factor...

The controversial issue of mandatory retirement at age 70 for tenured faculty as considered by Congress is discussed using a goals/values analysis. A solution is proposed which permits such faculty to remain on active tenured status between ages 65 and 70 on a half-time basis only.

This paper deals with the problem of allocating fixed resources between two types of demands; (a) spot demand; and (b) package (subscription) demand---demand that is satisfied by selling usage rights over a prespecified time period prior to actual consumption. In Model 1, a probabilistic spot...

1 The Productivity Concept: Definition, Measurement and Managerial Importance -- Aggregation Problems -- Total Factor Productivity -- Unbiased and Unique Discrete Approximations to TFP Indexes -- Value Added Versus Gross Output -- The Concept and Measurement of Capital -- Productivity Measures...

This is a management-oriented book about efficiency, quality and effectiveness designed for an audience of management practitioners, scholars, and students. The integrative approach developed in this book contains new ideas regarding quality and efficiency-based effective management. These ideas...