This paper analyses the means by which major innovations in the operations management (OM) practice develop. It describes the process as having a life cycle pattern that starts with a big idea. The big idea concept promises breakthrough operating results, ultimately providing lower price, better...

Cardinal Utility -- Game Solutions and the Normal Form -- Overconfidence in Overconfidence -- Problem Formulation and Alternative Generation in the Decision Making Process -- On Non-Expected-Utility Preferences -- Aspects of Regret Theory and Disappointment Theory as Alternatives to the Expected...