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Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability and Positive Organizational Scholarship

Hoffman, Andrew J. - 2010

This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability research domains, examining ways in which each domain can enrich the other, their mutual research agendas, and practical contributions. POS can help sustainability make a shift from...

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Base-stock control for single-product tandem make-to-stock systems

Duenyas, Izak; Patana-Anake, Prayoon - 1997

In this paper, we consider a multiple-stage tandem production/inventory system producing a single product. Processing …-in-process (WIP) inventory is different at each stage. Therefore, decisions on when to release work to the system as well as when to …

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Integrated maintenance and production control of a deteriorating production system

Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Duenyas, Izak - 2002

We consider a make-to-stock production/inventory system consisting of a single deteriorating machine which produces a …

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Getting Right with Nature: Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism and Theocentrism

Hoffman, Andrew J. - 2004

We are uneasy with nature. The past century has witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity. It has witnessed also unprecedented depredations upon nature. Today there is debate between two moral postures to reconcile these developments. One takes a human-centered, or anthropocentric,...

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Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field

Hoffman, Andrew J. - 2004

(Fischer and Schott, 1993) and the Management Institute for Environment and Business (now part of the World Resources Institute …). What began as a modest offshoot of management research has grown into a maturing area of study within the management …

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Stochastic scheduling of parallel queues with set-up costs

Duenyas, Izak; Oyen, Mark P. - 1995

We consider the problem of allocating a single server to a system of queues with Poisson arrivals. Each queue …

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