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was assembled in early January 1989. The team included representatives from BPA's Management Analysis, Internal Audit and … Financial Management organizations, and operation and maintenance program areas. BPA selected four utilities from a field of … maintenance program direction and emphasis; Organization, management and implementation techniques; Reliability; and Program costs …
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This dissertation addresses the impact of strategic consumer behavior on different pricing strategies. Generally speaking, consumers are strategic in that they correctly anticipate a firms' actions and the behavior of other consumers when they make purchasing decisions. In the context of this...
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Recent technological advances in sensor and computer technology allow the observation of business and industrial processes at fairly high frequencies. For example, data used for monitoring critical parameters of industrial furnaces, conveyor belts or chemical processes may be sampled every...
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We study the effect that consumer returns have on the coordination of a two-echelon supply chain with a single manufacturer and a single retailer that faces stochastic demand and a certain proportion of consumer returns for a single product. Returned goods command a full refund and result in...
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Network systems, including transportation and logistic systems, electric power generation and distribution networks as well as financial networks, provide the critical infrastructure for the functioning of our societies and economies. The understanding of the dynamic behavior of such systems is...
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Productivity assessment has received increased attention over the past several years. At the same time, the focus has moved from single-factor productivity measures, or attempts to characterize performance in terms of simple ratios, to a multi-factor construct. In this dissertation, I propose a...
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Uzzi (1996, p. 674) highlighted that there is a "growing need to understand how social structure assists or impedes economic performance." In this dissertation, I contribute to this understanding by constructing dynamic supernetwork models that explicitly integrate social networks with economic...
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Dynamic pricing problems have received considerable attention in the operations management literature in the last two … particular class of dynamic pricing problems have received substantial attention in the operations management literature in …
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This research is based on the premises that teams can be designed to optimize its performance, and appropriate team coordination is a significant factor to team outcome performance. Contingency theory argues that the effectiveness of a team depends on the right fit of the team design factors to...
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This Dissertation is a qualitative case study that examines transformative technical adaptations and organizational process changes in the context of a new product deployment in a large Telecommunications Corporation. The dissertation advances the existing body of knowledge and understanding of...
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