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Note---A Note on "Efficiency of the Antithetic Variate Method for Simulating Stochastic Networks"

Floyd H. Grant, III - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 3, pp. 381-384

antithetic variate method for simulating stochastic networks. Management Sci. 28 (5, May) 563--572.), they present a theorem … project completion time in PERT networks using antithetic sampling procedures. Their proof is restricted to stochastic … networks in which the arc time distributions are symmetric about their means. In this note we present a proof which guarantees …

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Modeling the Domestic Distribution Network for Illicit Drugs

Caulkins, Jonathan P. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 10, pp. 1364-1371

This paper presents a simple economic model of a drug dealer's decision about how many customers to supply. The model relates the number of customers (i.e., the branching factor of the distribution network) to a quantity discount factor describing the extent to which prices are marked up from...

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Topological and Computational Aspects of Preemptive Multicriteria Military Personnel Assignment Problems

Klingman, Darwin; Phillips, Nancy V. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 11, pp. 1362-1375

This paper first presents a brief reveiw of the multicriteria problems faced by the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps in making enlisted personnel assignment decisions. Then for the most complex of these military assignment problems, the Marine Corps problem, a new modeling and solution...

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Identifying Formal and Informal Influence in Technology Adoption with Network Externalities

Tucker, Catherine - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 12, pp. 2024-2038

key boundary-spanning positions in communication networks, in addition to those with sources of formal influence, when …

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A Generalized Network Formulation of the Pairwise Comparison Consensus Ranking Model

Barzilai, Jonathan; Cook, Wade D.; Kress, Moshe - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 8, pp. 1007-1014

One of the best known and most widely referenced models for representing ordinal preferences is that due to Kemeny and Snell (Kemeny, J. G., L. J. Snell. 1962. Preference ranking: an axiomatic approach. Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences. Glnn, New York, 9--23.). This model is designed...

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Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Large-Scale Network Structure on Firm Innovation

Schilling, Melissa A.; Phelps, Corey C. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 7, pp. 1113-1126

The structure of alliance networks influences their potential for knowledge creation. Dense local clustering provides … firms embedded in alliance networks that exhibit both high clustering and high reach (short average path lengths to a wide … range of firms) will have greater innovative output than firms in networks that do not exhibit these characteristics. We …

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Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks

Almeida, Paul; Kogut, Bruce - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 7, pp. 905-917

networks vary by region, there should be regional variations in the localization of spillovers. We investigate the relationship … knowledge. The flow of knowledge is embedded in regional labor networks. …

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Network-Independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks

Baum, Joel A. C.; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 11, pp. 2094-2110

innovation networks. To marshal evidence in this regard, we design a simple model of partner selection in which firms ally for …

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A Bilevel Model of Taxation and Its Application to Optimal Highway Pricing

Labbé, Martine; Marcotte, Patrice; Savard, Gilles - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 12-Part-1, pp. 1608-1622

We consider a bilevel model where the leader wants to maximize revenues from a taxation scheme, while the follower rationally reacts to those tax levels. We focus our attention on the special case of a toll-setting problem defined on a multicommodity transportation network. We show that the...

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Two-Sided Competition of Proprietary vs. Open Source Technology Platforms and the Implications for the Software Industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1057-1071

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm; that is, the pricing strategy toward the direct users of the platform as well as toward firms offering...

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