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Choice Interactions and Business Strategy
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Levinthal, Daniel - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 9, pp. 1638-1651
Choice settings are strategic to the extent that they entail cross-sectional or intertemporal linkages. These same factors may impose daunting demands on decision makers. We develop a graph-theoretic generalization of the NK model of fitness landscapes to model the way in which policy choices...
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Modeling Coordination in Organizations and Markets
Malone, Thomas W. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 10, pp. 1317-1332
This paper describes a simple set of coordination structures that model certain kinds of information processing … involved in organizations and markets. Four generic coordination structures are defined: product hierarchies, functional … production costs, coordination costs, and vulnerability costs. This model is unusual in that it includes detailed definitions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009208955
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Comments on "Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect"
Lee, Hau L.; Padmanabhan, V.; Whang, Seungjin - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 12_supplement, pp. 1887-1893
In this commentary, we trace back how we pursued research on the bullwhip effect, which resulted in the article published in Management Science. We reflect on the evolution of this concept, the impact that our work has had on industry, the way our work has been used in the teaching of supply...
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Decentralizing Cross-Functional Decisions: Coordination Through Internal Markets
Kouvelis, Panagiotis; Lariviere, Martin A. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 8, pp. 1049-1058
A firm faces many problems that are inherently cross-functional. To solve them successfully requires the coordinated actions of many functional representatives acting in a decentralized setting. Functional managers, however, respond to their own individual incentives and may consequently fail to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209331
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Facilitating Coordination in Customer Support Teams: A Framework and Its Implications for the Design of Information Technology
Rathnam, Sukumar; Mahajan, Vijay; Whinston, Andrew B. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 12, pp. 1900-1921
The management of coordination gaps is critical to the effective functioning of a customer support team. To address the … managerial challenge of designing Information Technology (IT) to facilitate coordination in customer support teams, this paper … develops a framework describing the drivers of coordination gaps in customer support teams. Measures for the characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009214717
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The Quantity Flexibility Contract and Supplier-Customer Incentives
Tsay, Andy A. - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 10, pp. 1339-1358
Consider a supply chain consisting of two independent agents, a supplier (e.g., a manufacturer) and its customer (e.g., a retailer), the latter in turn serving an uncertain market demand. To reconcile manufacturing/procurement time lags with a need for timely response to the market, such supply...
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Subcontracting, Coordination, Flexibility, and Production Smoothing in Aggregate Planning
Kamien, Morton I.; Li, Lode - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 11, pp. 1352-1363
with quadratic cost functions and coordination subcontracts; linear decision rules for production, inventory, and …
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Coordinating Investment, Production, and Subcontracting
Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 7, pp. 954-971
We value the option of subcontracting to improve financial performance and system coordination by analyzing a …
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Cooperative Planning, Uncertainty, and Managerial Control in Concurrent Design
Mitchell, Victoria L.; Nault, Barrie R. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 3, pp. 375-389
We examine whether cooperative planning and uncertainty affect the magnitude of rework in concurrent engineering projects with upstream and downstream operations, and explore the impact of such rework on project delays. Using survey data from a sample of 120 business process (BP) redesign and...
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Efficient Supply Contracts for Fashion Goods with Forecast Updating and Two Production Modes
Donohue, Karen L. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 11, pp. 1397-1411
We examine the problem of developing supply contracts that encourage proper coordination of forecast information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203756