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The Effects of Low Inventory on the Development of Productivity Norms

Schultz, Kenneth L.; Juran, David C.; Boudreau, John W. - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 12, pp. 1664-1678

Low inventory, a crucial part of just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing systems, enjoys increasing application worldwide, yet the behavioral effects of such systems remain largely unexplored. Operations research (OR) models of low-inventory systems typically use a simplifying assumption that...

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An Empirical Analysis of User Content Generation and Usage Behavior on the Mobile Internet

Ghose, Anindya; Han, Sang Pil - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 9, pp. 1671-1691

key objective is to analyze whether there is a positive or negative interdependence between the two activities. We use a … endogeneity of the social network. We find that there is a negative and statistically significant temporal interdependence between … impact on content generation in the current period and vice versa. The marginal effect of this interdependence is stronger on …

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Simulating Project Work Processes and Organizations: Toward a Micro-Contingency Theory of Organizational Design

Levitt, Raymond E.; Thomsen, Jan; Christiansen, Tore R.; … - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 11, pp. 1479-1495

measures of activity flexibility, complexity, uncertainty, and interdependence strength. It explicitly models the effects of …

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An Example and a Proposal Concerning the Correlation of Worker Processing Times in Parallel Tasks

Schultz, Kenneth L.; Schoenherr, Tobias; Nembhard, David - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 1, pp. 176-191

Models and understanding of line design depend on accurate assessments of the effects of design parameters on human actions. Although equity theory predicts that workers will react to the speed of people around them, experimental work has failed to find this effect in an industrial setting with...

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